SA-355-S10
Solaris Containers Administration

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Introduction

Virtualization Trends in the Datacenter

Describing Solaris Zones and Containers

Creating Installing and Booting Zones

Connecting Storage to Zones

Managing Packages and Patches Within Zones

Configuring Presistant Resource Pools

Configuring Resource Management With Zones

Performing Zone Advanced Network Management

Renaming, Moving, Cloning, and Migrating Solaris Zones

Performing Zone Backups and Restores

Configuring lx Branded Zones

Connecting Storage to Zones
 
From Oracle Documentation

File Systems and Non-Global Zones


From Solaris How-To Guides:

Solaris How-To Guides, "Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers" :LINK: :PDF:.


Bloggers:

From Pradhap 's Solaris Corner, Mount NTFS / Ext2 / Ext3 / FAT 16 / FAT 32 in Solaris

From Pradhap 's Solaris Corner, Mount NTFS partition in Solaris

Martin Englund's Weblog, "Random ramblings of a paranoid git" Cloning zones using zfs

From Infinite Probability, Menno Lageman's Weblog Dynamic Zone changes

Joost Pronk's Weblog, There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud Containers on NFS?

Dan Anderson's Weblog, Life is like an analogy Solaris ZFS and Zones: Simple Example

Jim's Blog, ZFS Zones Clones and Snapshot

Liane Praza's Weblog entry new mnttab entries in Solaris 10.

Blog O. Matty, Adding a file system to a running zone


From OpenSolaris.org

OpenSolaris [zones-discuss], Zone questions with VXFS..



Other

Installing the Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver to Solaris Zones

From Symantic, Workaround to access raw Veritas Volume Manager volumes from Non-global zones

From Symantic, Late Breaking News (LBN) - Latest additions to the Release Notes for Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability 5.0, 5.0 Maintenance Pack 1 (MP1), and Maintenance Pack 3 (MP3) for Solaris (SPARC)


Any file system type not listed in the table can be specified in the configuration if it has a mount binary in /usr/lib/fstype/mount.

File System 

Mounting Options in a Non-Global Zone 

AutoFS 

Cannot be mounted using zonecfg, cannot be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone. Can be mounted from within the zone.

CacheFS 

Cannot be used in a non-global zone. 

FDFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.(File Descriptor File System)

HSFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.(High Sierra File System)

LOFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.(Loopback File System)

MNTFS 

Cannot be mounted using zonecfg, cannot be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone. Can be mounted from within the zone.(mnttab virtual File System)

NFS 

Cannot be mounted using zonecfg. V2, V3, and V4, which are the versions currently supported in zones, can be mounted from within the zone.

PCFS  

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.

PROCFS 

Cannot be mounted using zonecfg, cannot be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone. Can be mounted from within the zone.

TMPFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.

UDFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.(Universal Disk Format File System)

UFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.

XMEMFS 

Can be mounted using zonecfg, can be manually mounted from the global zone into a non-global zone, can be mounted from within the zone.(Extended Memory File System)

Support for this file system is being removed from the Solaris system in a future release. 

ZFS 

Can be mounted using the zonecfg dataset and fs resource types.