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Containers - Zones quick setup guide Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:13


Solaris Zones

The Solaris Zones partitioning technology is used to virtualize operating system services and provide an isolated and secure environment for running applications. A zone is a virtualized operating system environment created within a single instance of the Solaris Operating System. When you create a zone, you produce an application execution environment in which processes are isolated from the rest of the system. This isolation prevents processes that are running in one zone from monitoring or affecting processes that are running in other zones.Zones can be used on any machine that is running the Solaris 10 release. The upper limit for the number of zones on a system is 8192. The number of zones that can be effectively hosted on a single system is determined by the total resource requirements of the application software running in all of the zones.


Global Zones

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 December 2008 07:36
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LDOM - Creating file/zfs based virtual disk Print E-mail
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Monday, 29 December 2008 11:47


In LDOM, you can export a disk image file directly using the virtual disk service.The file is exported as a raw disk by the virtual disk server and can be used as an installation or data disk in the guest domain. The following steps explains the procedure for doing the same,

 

1)Create a disk image file as per your required virtual disk size in the primary domain.

primary# mkdir /ldoms
primary# /usr/sbin/mkfile   2g   /ldoms/file.img

2) Create a virtual disk service and virtual disk.

Last Updated on Monday, 29 December 2008 12:00
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GlusterFS - Userspace Distributed File System Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 18:21

GlusterFS is a userspace cluster file system available in Storage cloud computing space. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system which can scale to several peta bytes. It provides a powerful mechanism called Translators to extends the file system capabilities. The idea of translator is borrowed by GlusterFS from GNU/Hurd operating system. Translators can be loaded both in client and server side appropriately to improve or achieve new functionalities. Presence of Translator feature and the advantage of file system design in userspace makes GlusterFS more robust and flexible in deciding file system functionality based on our specific needs. Gluster is also coming up with a storage operating system called GlusterOS built for commodity storage hardwares. It runs in an embedded mode with GlusterFS as its core file system.

 

GlusterFS Official Web site - http://www.gluster.org/

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 December 2008 18:56
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LDOM guest domain console grouping Print E-mail
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Monday, 29 December 2008 11:03


The Virtual network terminal server daemon(vntsd) has provision to configure multiple guest domain consoles using a single TCP port. At the time of domain creation, the LDOM manager assigns a unique TCP port to each console by creating a new default group for that domain's console. The TCP port is then assigned to the console group as opposed to the console itself. ldm-set-vcons command can be used to bound console to the existing group.


To group the LDOM guest domains console, perform the following steps, 


1) Guest domains to be added to the console group should be in inactive state. Use the ldm stop-domain and ldm unbind-domain to make the domains inactive. In this example we will bind the consoles of domains testdom1,2,3 into a single group

Last Updated on Monday, 29 December 2008 11:12
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ZFS - zpool administration made easy Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 09:00

ZFS - zpool administration

 

Create 7 files using mkfile command to perform all zpool related activities. 

[root@geekyfacts]# mkdir /pool


[root@geekyfacts]# cd /pool


[root@geekyfacts]# ls


[root@geekyfacts]# mkfile 100m disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5 disk6

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 December 2008 15:44
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