Sun Microsystems SOLARIS 10 - Manual (Page 4)

Version 3.1-en Solaris 10 Container Guide - 3.1 Effective: 30/11/2009
4.5. Management and monitoring ............................................................................................................55
4.5.1. Using boot arguments in zones ............................................................................................55
4.5.2. Consolidating log information of zones .................................................................................56
4.5.3. Monitoring zone workload .....................................................................................................56
4.5.4. Extended accounting with zones ..........................................................................................56
4.5.5. Auditing operations in the zone ............................................................................................56
4.5.6. DTrace of processes within a zone ......................................................................................57
4.6. Resource management ....................................................................................................................58
4.6.1. Types of resource management ...........................................................................................58
4.6.2. CPU resources .....................................................................................................................58
4.6.2.1. Capping of CPU time for a zone ...................................................................................................................58
4.6.2.2. General resource pools ................................................................................................................................58
4.6.2.3. Fair share scheduler (FSS) ...........................................................................................................................59
4.6.2.4. Fair share scheduler in a zone ......................................................................................................................59
4.6.2.5. Dynamic resource pools ...............................................................................................................................59
4.6.2.6. Lightweight processes (LWP) .......................................................................................................................59
4.6.3. Limiting memory resources ..................................................................................................60
4.6.3.1. Assessing memory requirements for global and local zones ........................................................................60
4.6.3.2. Limiting virtual memory .................................................................................................................................60
4.6.3.3. Limiting a zone's physical memory requirement ............................................................................................60
4.6.3.4. Limiting locked memory ................................................................................................................................61
4.6.4. Network limitation (IPQoS) ...................................................................................................61
4.6.5. IPC limits (Semaphore, shared memory, message queues) ................................................61
4.6.6. Privileges and resource management ..................................................................................61
4.7. Solaris container navigator ...............................................................................................................62
5. Cookbooks ...............................................................................................................................................65
5.1. Installation and configuration ............................................................................................................65
5.1.1. Configuration files .................................................................................................................65
5.1.2. Special commands for zones ...............................................................................................66
5.1.3. Root disk layout ....................................................................................................................68
5.1.4. Configuring a sparse root zone: required Actions .................................................................69
5.1.5. Configuring a whole root zone: required Actions ..................................................................70
5.1.6. Zone installation ...................................................................................................................71
5.1.7. Zone initialization with sysidcfg ............................................................................................71
5.1.8. Uninstalling a zone ...............................................................................................................72
5.1.9. Configuration and installation of a Linux branded zone with CentOS ...................................72
5.1.10. Configuration and installation of a Solaris 8/Solaris 9 container .........................................73
5.1.11. Optional settings .................................................................................................................73
5.1.11.1. Starting zones automatically .......................................................................................................................73
5.1.11.2. Changing the set of privileges of a zone .....................................................................................................73
5.1.12. Storage within a zone .........................................................................................................74
5.1.12.1. Using a device in a local zone ....................................................................................................................74
5.1.12.2. The global zone supplies a file system per lofs to the local zone ................................................................74
5.1.12.3. The global zone mounts a file system when the local zone is booted .........................................................75
5.1.12.4. The local zone mounts a UFS file system from a device ............................................................................75
5.1.12.5. User level NFS server in a local zone .........................................................................................................76
5.1.12.6. Using a DVD drive in the local zone ............................................................................................................76
5.1.12.7. Dynamic configuration of devices ...............................................................................................................76
5.1.12.8. Several zones share a file system ..............................................................................................................78
5.1.12.9. ZFS in a zone .............................................................................................................................................78
5.1.12.10. User attributes for ZFS within a zone ........................................................................................................78
5.1.13. Configuring a zone by command file or template ...............................................................79
5.1.14. Automatic quick installation of zones ..................................................................................79
5.1.15. Accelerated automatic creation of zones on a ZFS file system ..........................................80
5.1.16. Zones hardening .................................................................................................................80
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