Assign shared storage resources to zones in the zone configuration by using storage URIs to describe the location of a storage object.
Two zone configuration resource types, rootzpool, and zpool, and a property type, storage, are used to assign shared storage resources to a particular Oracle Solaris Zone. These are configured and maintained with the zonecfg.
When using shared storage resources, the storage property defines the location of the storage object in a host-independent format by using storage URIs. The following storage URIs are currently supported by the Oracle Solaris Zones framework in Oracle Solaris:
dev: local device path storage URI, DAS
iscsi: iSCSI storage URI
lu: Fibre Channel (FC) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
The storage property is managed using the following zonecfg subcommands from within a rootzpool or zpool resource scope:
zonecfg:zonename:zpool> add storage URI string zonecfg:zonename:zpool> remove storage URI string
The rootzpool resource is a dedicated ZFS storage pool for a zone. The entire zone installation is encapsulated into its own dedicated ZFS storage pool. This ZFS storage pool will be composed of shared storage resources.
The rootzpool resource must specify at least one storage property. Multiple storage properties can be specified to describe redundant ZFS storage pool configurations. Note that there can be only one rootzpool resource per zone configuration.
The ZFS storage pool name for a rootzpool resource will be automatically assigned as zonename_rpool. The name cannot be changed. The rootzpool resource is managed by using the following zonecfg subcommands from the global resource scope:
zonecfg:zonename> add rootzpool zonecfg:zonename:rootzpool> add storage URI string zonecfg:zonename:rootzpool> end zonecfg:zonename> remove rootzpool zonecfg:zonename> select rootzpool storage=URI string zonecfg:zonename> info rootzpool
The zpool resource describes a ZFS storage pool composed of shared storage resources that is delegated to the Oracle Solaris Zone. The zpool resource will specify at least one storage property. Multiple storage properties can be specified to describe redundant ZFS storage pool configurations. There can be multiple zpool resources defined for a zone configuration.
The ZFS storage pool name for a zpool resource is assigned by combining the zone name and the specified name property, as zonename_name. For the name property, the zonecfg will verify that the string is eligible for a ZFS storage name and a ZFS dataset name. The string rpool is not permitted and cannot be used for this property.
The zpool resource is managed using the following zonecfg subcommands from the global resource scope:
zonecfg:zonename> add zpool zonecfg:zonename:zpool> add storage URI string zonecfg:zonename:zpool> set name=name string zonecfg:zonename:zpool> end zonecfg:zonename> remove zpool zonecfg:zonename> remove zpool name=name string zonecfg:zonename> remove zpool storage=URI string zonecfg:zonename> select zpool storage=URI string zonecfg:zonename> info zpool zonecfg:zonename> info zpool name=name string zonecfg:zonename> info zpool storage=URI string
You can use the zoneadm command to rename a zone in either the configured or the installed state.
To alter a storage resource URI within a rootzpool or zpool resource when the location description changes for an existing shared storage resource, use the zonecfg remove storage old URI command syntax followed by the add storage new URI command.