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Creating Solaris Containers

Updated   Read time 2 min(s) 24 sec(s)   (851 visits).

Whilst there is an abundance of documentation on creating containers, the goal here is to create a container in the fewest number of steps.

Solaris LDOM overview

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A simple posts giving a brief overview on the Solaris LDOM hardware virtualisation.

How to use zlogin to Shutdown and Start a zone

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You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorization in the global zone to perform these procedures.

Creating a Solaris Zone on ZFS

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The following is a simple example of creating a ZFS filesystem and using it to hold a newly-created Solaris Zone (Solaris Container)

How to build a Solaris Branded Zone

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This is a standard question for Solaris administrators who unfortunately have requirements for an older Solaris 9 kernel for a legacy application.

Solaris LDOM vs Zones

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A Sun Logical Domain (LDom) is a full virtual machine whereas a Solaris zone is a virtual operating system.

Solaris Zone status and Configuration

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This article describes how to display the Solaris Zone Status and Configuration from the global zone.

Solaris Branded Zones

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Branded zones are Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 containers created in a Solaris 10 global zone with BrandZ framework to extend the Solaris zones.

Migrating a Solaris 11 Kernel Zone

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You can migrate a kernel zone to another host by using the zoneadm command. For zone migrations, a zone configuration must be portable across machines.

Using pkgcond to determine a zone type

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The pkgcond command allows you to determine the type of target being operated on (global zone, non-global zone, diskless client, and so forth)

NetWorker tape drives in VTL environments

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While most virtualisation systems allow configuration of tape drives inside a guest container, such configured tape drivers have limited support.

Patching Solaris 10 zones in parallel

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Every sysadmin that has upgraded or patched a system running multiples zones will tell it, the upgrade was an undefinably long process.

Cloning a Solaris zone

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The beauty of zones under Solaris for me is the ability to clone any zone and then easily adapt it for it's new resources and function.

ZFS Zones

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If the filesystem is created in the global zone and added to the local zone via zonecfg, it may be assigned to more than one zone

An introduction to Solaris Zones

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This post is an introduction to the new virtual technology introduced from Sun Microsystems, namely Solaris Zones (not containers)