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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management

2.  Projects and Tasks (Overview)

3.  Administering Projects and Tasks

4.  Extended Accounting (Overview)

5.  Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)

6.  Resource Controls (Overview)

7.  Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)

8.  Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)

9.  Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)

10.  Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)

11.  Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)

12.  Resource Pools (Overview)

What's New in Resource Pools and Dynamic Resource Pools?

Introduction to Resource Pools

Introduction to Dynamic Resource Pools

About Enabling and Disabling Resource Pools and Dynamic Resource Pools

Resource Pools Used in Zones

When to Use Pools

Resource Pools Framework

/etc/pooladm.conf Contents

Pools Properties

Implementing Pools on a System

project.pool Attribute

SPARC: Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations and Resource Pools

Creating Pools Configurations

Directly Manipulating the Dynamic Configuration

poold Overview

Managing Dynamic Resource Pools

Configuration Constraints and Objectives

Configuration Constraints

pset.min Property and pset.max Property Constraints

cpu.pinned Property Constraint

pool.importance Property Constraint

Configuration Objectives

wt-load Objective

The locality Objective

utilization Objective

Configuration Objectives Example

poold Properties

poold Features That Can Be Configured

poold Monitoring Interval

poold Logging Information

Configuration Information Logging

Monitoring Information Logging

Optimization Information Logging

Logging Location

Log Management With logadm

How Dynamic Resource Allocation Works

About Available Resources

Determining Available Resources

Identifying a Resource Shortage

Determining Resource Utilization

Identifying Control Violations

Determining Appropriate Remedial Action

Using poolstat to Monitor the Pools Facility and Resource Utilization

poolstat Output

Tuning poolstat Operation Intervals

Commands Used With the Resource Pools Facility

13.  Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)

14.  Resource Management Configuration Example

15.  Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console

Part II Zones

16.  Introduction to Solaris Zones

17.  Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)

18.  Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

19.  About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)

20.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

21.  Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)

22.  Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

23.  Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

24.  Oracle Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)

25.  About Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)

26.  Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on an Oracle Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)

27.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

28.  Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)

29.  Upgrading an Oracle Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones

30.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Part III lx Branded Zones

31.  About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone

32.  Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)

33.  Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)

34.  About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)

35.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

36.  Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

37.  Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

38.  Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Commands Used With the Resource Pools Facility

The commands described in the following table provide the primary administrative interface to the pools facility. For information on using these commands on a system that has zones enabled, see Resource Pools Used in Zones.

Man Page Reference
Description
Enables or disables the pools facility on your system. Activates a particular configuration or removes the current configuration and returns associated resources to their default status. If run without options, pooladm prints out the current dynamic pools configuration.
Enables the manual binding of projects, tasks, and processes to a resource pool.
Provides configuration operations on pools and sets. Configurations created using this tool are instantiated on a target host by using pooladm.

If run with the info subcommand argument to the -c option, poolcfg displays information about the static configuration at /etc/pooladm.conf. If a file name argument is added, this command displays information about the static configuration held in the named file. For example, poolcfg -c info /tmp/newconfig displays information about the static configuration contained in the file /tmp/newconfig.

The pools system daemon. The daemon uses system targets and observable statistics to preserve the system performance goals specified by the administrator. If unable to take corrective action when goals are not being met, poold logs the condition.
Displays statistics for pool-related resources. Simplifies performance analysis and provides information that supports system administrators in resource partitioning and repartitioning tasks. Options are provided for examining specified pools and reporting resource set-specific statistics.

A library API is provided by libpool (see the libpool(3LIB) man page). The library can be used by programs to manipulate pool configurations.