[zones-discuss] non global zone and NFS server

2006-10-27 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
It used to be that running a NFS server was not supported in a non global zone. Is this till the case? If so are there any plans to support it? What is the reason for not supporting NFS server in a non global zone? Thanks Paul. -- Paul van den Bogaard Sun Mi

[zones-discuss] actual utilization of a pool/zone/proj

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Barrett
Lets say I have a T2000 with 16 threads. I have the following: pool_1 = dynamic pool with 50% utilization goal set zone_a = 50/100 shares proj_alpha = 50/100 shares proj_beta = 50/100 shares zone_b = 50 shares pool_2 = dynamic pool with 50% utiliz

Re: [zones-discuss] 3 questions about zones and containers

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Kraus
On 10/26/06, George Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zone/Container Gurus, My customers' DBAs ask: 3. is it still true that you need to reboot a zone when adding a new disk? I have not had to reboot to add a disk to a Solaris system in many, many years. It all depends on whether the

Re: [zones-discuss] non global zone and NFS server

2006-10-27 Thread Rayson Ho
It's being worked on: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4964859 IIRC, it is currently not supported because the kernel part of NFS server does not understand the concept of zones... Rayson == http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ http://www.gridengine.info/ On 10/27/06,

Re: [zones-discuss] actual utilization of a pool/zone/proj

2006-10-27 Thread Amol A Chiplunkar
You may want to add more information like you are creating psets for each pool and the pset.max and pset.min of each. Because when I create a pset without specifying them and associate it with a pool, the size is zero. Also a correction. You cannot specify 50/100 shares. Shares are relative in

Re: [zones-discuss] non global zone and NFS server

2006-10-27 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Rayson Ho wrote: It's being worked on: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4964859 IIRC, it is currently not supported because the kernel part of NFS server does not understand the concept of zones... In order to help the NFS team understand the importance of this issue

Re: [zones-discuss] actual utilization of a pool/zone/proj

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Barrett
Amol A Chiplunkar wrote: You may want to add more information like you are creating psets for each pool and the pset.max and pset.min of each. Because when I create a pset without specifying them and associate it with a pool, the size is zero. I thought when you were using a utilization goal i

[zones-discuss] Re: 3 questions about zones and containers

2006-10-27 Thread Phil Freund
You can also remove a LOFS mounted filesystem from a running zone with no problem. I do it all the time. To do it, logon to the global zone and umount the filesystem with: umount Phil This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mai

Re: [zones-discuss] [Fwd: Reminder: Design review of IP Instances part of Crossbow]]

2006-10-27 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:41:32PM -0700, Erik Nordmark wrote: > Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > >- how about the opposite scenario. a user configures a zone with > > without and an exclusive ip instance and sets up a bunch of network > > configuration inside that zone that would normally only apply

[zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Price
A (large) customer recently asked me to implement a feature whereby they could monitor zone activity via syslog. The motivation is that for this customer, any zone state change not during maintenance windows is a cause for alarm. I prototyped this feature last night and I'd like to solicit your

re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Memishian
> So here are my questions: > > - Do you think this is useful? > > - Do you think the log level (Info) is right? daemon.info is > *not* logged by default, whereas notice is. (So basically: do > you want these messages in /var/adm/messages by default, or not?) > >

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 10/27/06, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A (large) customer recently asked me to implement a feature whereby they could monitor zone activity via syslog. The motivation is that for this customer, any zone state change not during maintenance windows is a cause for alarm. I've had a si

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 27 Oct 2006 at 09:11PM, Peter Memishian wrote: > > > So here are my questions: > > > > - Do you think this is useful? > > > > - Do you think the log level (Info) is right? daemon.info is > > *not* logged by default, whereas notice is. (So basically: do > > yo

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Memishian
> Such as? No strong preference, but it should be something that can be versioned, extensible, parsed unambiguously and easily, and unaffected by locale. Maybe general purpose event channels? -- meem ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@open

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 27 Oct 2006 at 06:21PM, Dan Price wrote: > > > > Encouraging programmatic use of syslog seems a step in the wrong direction > > to me. Surely we can provide a better mechanism to notify them of state > > changes? > > Such as? I guess my larger point is that I haven't seen us take steps i

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Memishian
> I think that some minimal syslogging is warranted (I've tried to keep it > simple here) because we do know that customers have a degree of comfort > with syslog, and because it fits readily into various existing 3rd party > monitoring packages. But it falls apart in the long run since the o

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 10/27/06, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for GPEC, that's what our existing C api is based upon. Take a look at zonecfg_notify_*() in libzonecfg. It's a real horror show but it does solve the "get the state and then subscribe to future changes and don't miss anything in between" pro

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Matty
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Dan Price wrote: A (large) customer recently asked me to implement a feature whereby they could monitor zone activity via syslog. The motivation is that for this customer, any zone state change not during maintenance windows is a cause for alarm. I prototyped this featur

Re: [zones-discuss] feedback requested: syslogging zone state transitions...

2006-10-27 Thread Matty
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Mike Gerdts wrote: On 10/27/06, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for GPEC, that's what our existing C api is based upon. Take a look at zonecfg_notify_*() in libzonecfg. It's a real horror show but it does solve the "get the state and then subscribe to future chan

Re: [zones-discuss] actual utilization of a pool/zone/proj

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Barrett
I just stood up this environment and used nspins to max out the allocations. Host (8 CPU v890) pool_1 Max=66K Min=1 Util_goal=50% Actual 5 zone_a 50 shares proj_alpha 50 shares proj_beta 50 shares