1. Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Zones
  2. Administering SMF and Reporting in Oracle Solaris Non-Global Zones
  3. Zones and the Service Management Facility
  4. Zones Boot Ordering

Zones Boot Ordering

Two steps establish zones boot order:

  1. Boot order is partially determined by the SMF dependencies of a zone SMF instance.

    For example, if ZoneA should be booted before ZoneB, add ZoneA as a dependent of ZoneB. See the smf-dependency property in the zonecfg(8) man page.

  2. Boot order is further controlled by assigning a boot priority for each zone. After the SMF dependencies are satisfied for a zone, then the zone will boot according to its configured boot-priority resource property. Accepted values are high, normal, and low. The default value is normal.

    See boot-priority Global Property in Oracle Solaris Zones Configuration Resources and smf-dependency Resource Type in Oracle Solaris Zones Configuration Resources.