Creating a Zone Cluster

This section provides procedures on how to use the clsetup utility to create a zone cluster, and add a network address, file system, ZFS storage pool, and storage device to the new zone cluster.

If any node is in noncluster mode, changes that you make are propagated when the node returns to cluster mode. Therefore, you can create a zone cluster even if some global-cluster nodes are in noncluster mode. When those nodes return to cluster mode, the system performs zone-cluster creation tasks on those nodes.

You can alternatively use the clzonecluster utility to create and configure a cluster. See the clzonecluster(8CL) man page for more information.

You can also configure the Packet Filter (PF) feature in a zone cluster. See How to Configure Packet Filter.

Note:

You cannot change the zone cluster name after the zone cluster is created. Also, once the zone cluster is configured, switching ip-type between exclusive and shared is not supported.

Note:

When a zone is booted into a zone cluster, do not use the zoneadm command to halt or reboot the zone. Instead, use the clzonecluster halt and clzonecluster reboot commands. The zoneadm halt and zoneadm reboot commands do not synchronize the shutdown of objects that Oracle Solaris Cluster manages. So, these halting actions might cause applications in the zone or the zone to enter a faulted state.

This section contains the following procedures: