Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-11 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> would it be possible to compile your experience into some best practice >> topic on the wiki - similarily to what Reginald has done for his N40L >> installation? I think that would really help others as the subject

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-08 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote: > Hi there, > > would it be possible to compile your experience into some best practice topic > on the wiki - similarily to what Reginald has done for his N40L > installation? I think that would really help others as the subject is setti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Hi there, would it be possible to compile your experience into some best practice topic on the wiki - similarily to what Reginald has done for his N40L installation? I think that would really help others as the subject is setting OI apart from any Linux distro... Cheers Stefan _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
I'd just like to thank all of you again for all of the help and advice you gave me. I'm still reading, and re-reading, the posts and links you sent me. I'm still mulling over all that you said, and experimenting with them. While it may have seemed like we strayed a bit off-topic from time to t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-05 10:34, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2013, at 2:10 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: Now you are moving from complex to "mind bogging complex" :) But yes with OI you can create network (datacenter) in a box (switches, routers, servers): http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/permalink/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-05 09:51, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: "Or am I missing something here? (And that's entirely possible!)" You are not gonna like my answer since it ads even more complexity but you can (theoretically) use single IP and have a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Andrej Javoršek
"And you all don't normally do the Crossbow Virtualization, right?" I did it once (fully blown) to connect 4 zones (DNS, 2 apache, mysql) with single public IP v4 and class of IP v6 into internet. It is also only way to do with single box (and without additional routers). But than I bought Mikrotik

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 5, 2013, at 2:10 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: > Now you are moving from complex to "mind bogging complex" :) > But yes with OI you can create network (datacenter) in a box (switches, > routers, servers): > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/permalink/Upcoming-Solaris-Features-Crossbow-Virtualisation.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Andrej Javoršek
Now you are moving from complex to "mind bogging complex" :) But yes with OI you can create network (datacenter) in a box (switches, routers, servers): http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/permalink/Upcoming-Solaris-Features-Crossbow-Virtualisation.html Regards Andrej On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:00 AM, dormi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On 02/04/2013 05:33 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: > I'm half-German, raised in a predominately German community with old > German values like, "If you aren't going to do it right, don't to it > at all." I've really had to tone down on that through the years > here, let me tell you! This

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
> Something like http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html maybe? > > -- > Ian. Oh, and Ian, I'll look at this again in the morning. But Apache is so hard for me! I'm just grateful I have it working with a reasonably simple setup. Thanks again. I do appreciate it.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-05 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote: > "Or am I missing something here? (And that's entirely possible!)" > > You are not gonna like my answer since it ads even more complexity but you > can (theoretically) use single IP and have a lot of globally available > services in different

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Collins
dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote: dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: I think I'm crazy for wanting to set up three zones on this one machine. I have specific reasons for it, so I can justify it (to myself), but when I first embarked upon this pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Andrej Javoršek
"Or am I missing something here? (And that's entirely possible!)" You are not gonna like my answer since it ads even more complexity but you can (theoretically) use single IP and have a lot of globally available services in different physical or virtual computers by using NAT and port mapping tec

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: >> I think I'm crazy for wanting to set up three zones on this one machine. I >> have specific reasons for it, so I can justify it (to myself), but when I >> first embarked upon this project, I wasn't even going

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Ian Collins
dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: I think I'm crazy for wanting to set up three zones on this one machine. I have specific reasons for it, so I can justify it (to myself), but when I first embarked upon this project, I wasn't even going to use zones at all, just because I didn't think I shoul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > And there may be black boxes which "just work", nobody > knows why or what for, but prefer to not touch them ;] Oh, you cracked me up with this!!! But seriously, thank you very much for clearing this up for me. It must have taken you some time

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-04 23:33, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: I see some of the posts some of you all make about really complex setups, and I see photos of data centers with racks upon racks upon racks of servers... and I hear some of you all talk about how you set up a thousand servers a year... and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 4, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 02/04/2013 08:02 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> >>> On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/04/2013 08:02 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: > On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > >> On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: >>> Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my >>> old habit of weekly reboots just to clear

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: >> Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my >> old habit of weekly reboots just to clear out the RAM, etc. a while back. > > Please don't think that anyb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/04/2013 07:31 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: > Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my old > habit of weekly reboots just to clear out the RAM, etc. a while back. Please don't think that anybody here was dissing you or anything. It's just that you ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
Thanks, everyone, for all of your advice and insights. I really appreciate it! And I can upgrade the RAM on that machine. That's no problem. Oh, and a little off topic here, but some of you all didn't appreciate my old habit of weekly reboots just to clear out the RAM, etc. a while back. It k

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello Peter, As others have already answered, since the switch to IPS there are no longer sparse zones. In fact, one of the rationales in their favor, the ability to upgrade and patch the software which runs in the zone automatically along with the global zone - is directly counter to the IPS g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-04 Thread Andrej Javoršek
Hello! Welcome in this beautiful world!;) 1) It seems that sparse-root zones are no longer available after complete switch to IPS! 2) I normally set IP addresses in the old fashioned Solaris style in /etc/hostname.interface (eg. with 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0). And for the zones, with m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-03 Thread Ian Collins
Dormition Skete wrote: I entered the wonderful world of zones the other day. > > I read the chapter in the "OpenSolaris Bible" about zones a while > back, and I've been thinking that setting up a couple of sparse-root > zones, and one whole-root zone would probably be best for our needs. I'm p

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

2013-02-03 Thread Dormition Skete
I entered the wonderful world of zones the other day. I read the chapter in the "OpenSolaris Bible" about zones a while back, and I've been thinking that setting up a couple of sparse-root zones, and one whole-root zone would probably be best for our needs. I wanted the whole-root zone because