[zones-discuss] Re: Cross-hardware zone moves

2007-03-02 Thread Lutz Steinbach
I've did some tests with zones on SF25k (sun4u) and on FSC PP2500 (sun4us). The zones got created separately on each machine as whole root zone, no FS was inherited from the global zone. The zones root FS have been put on Hitachi SAN devs, using UFS. Everything was put into a VCS failover group

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Cross-hardware zone moves

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Hello Lutz, First, I'd like to thank you for sharing your experience with the community. I would guess that few people have the resources and need (and time) to perform those tests. Are those zones sparse-root or whole-root zones? As you may know, a sparse-root zone has (almost) no executab

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Cross-hardware zone moves

2007-03-02 Thread Robert Bailey
This probably has more to do with the potential for different network devices (if not plumbed via VCS), and the likelihood of patch miss- syncs. In U1 there's no real error checking, just a copy of the XML? In U3, with the attach/detach features, it's very common for the zoneadm attach s

[zones-discuss] ZoneMgr Presentation...

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Diggs
Hello all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I put together a presentation that introduces you to the Zone Manager and walks you through 10 examples of how the Zone Manager can simplify your zones experience. Links to odp and pdf versions of the presentation are available from the main Zone

[zones-discuss] ZoneMgr Survey: 2pkg or not 2pkg... that is the question...

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Diggs
Hello again, Several people have asked me to consider converting the Zone Manager from a single script into a Solaris package. The suggested benefits include the following: * Can break out the help info into a man page * Can add support for multiple languages in the man page * Can standardi

Re: [zones-discuss] ZoneMgr Survey: 2pkg or not 2pkg... that is the question...

2007-03-02 Thread Tony Ambrozie
+1 from me (non-binding), for the reasons listed under bullet points 3 and 5. I appreciate the amount of work to be done. BTW, I understand trying not to jam the aliases with responses, but I would suggest that all discussions and voting be done in the open, on the list. Thank you, On 3/2/07,

[zones-discuss] Re: ZoneMgr Survey: 2pkg or not 2pkg... that is the

2007-03-02 Thread John Clingan
Good timing and this kind of feedback is appropriate for the alias. I've been thinking about this since my last feature submission. While modifying the script, I've realized that it's become too big for its own britches. I'm not sure that breaking out "artifacts" from business logic is granular