Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Resource Management Issue.

2010-12-13 Thread Henrik Johansson
On 13 dec 2010, at 10:50, Ketan wrote: > Ok got it .. but still if i want to check what's current usage by a whole > zone/project for locked-memory what would be the best way .. i 'm using > > kstat -c project_caps -n 'lockedmem*' That should work, I have used it without problem and the "zon

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Resource Management Issue.

2010-12-13 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello Ketan, On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Ketan wrote: > One of our box T5440 has been configured with 5 zones and following resource > management parameters has been applied to 1 zone say zone1 > > zone.max-shm-memory 4G > zone.max-locked-memory 4G > > so if i want to check the zone.max

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and storage pools

2010-11-02 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >> >> On Nov 3, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >> >>> On 11/ 3/10 11:56 AM, Henrik Johansson wrote: >>>> >>>> I would ideally like to do two things: >>>> >>>&g

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and storage pools

2010-11-02 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello Ian, Thanks four your answer, more below. On Nov 3, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 11/ 3/10 11:56 AM, Henrik Johansson wrote: >> >> >> I would ideally like to do two things: >> >> 1. Have all filesystem configuration for the zone in the po

[zones-discuss] Zones and storage pools

2010-11-02 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hi all, I would like you take on this for a large zone installation. I am going to create zones on zpools with a pool for the zoneroot and another pool for for application data, the second pool can differ in layout, disk system and properties and can easily be separated from the zone and moved

Re: [zones-discuss] vxfs in non-global zone

2010-03-18 Thread Henrik Johansson
On 17 mar 2010, at 04.12, Derek McEachern wrote: Thanks for the responses. We don't plan on running the zone root on vxfs, it will be on ufs. The VRTSvfxs package installs with parameters SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES='true' SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW='true' SUNW_PKG_THISZONE='false' so package content is not de

Re: [zones-discuss] vxfs in non-global zone

2010-03-16 Thread Henrik Johansson
I am away from home and om mobie device so i'll make it short. This work fine if you don't ever put the zoneroot on vxfs, if you do you will not be able to use all upgrade options and the Veritas supplied scripts for live upgrade only works with a vanilla install (no separate LUN for zones

[zones-discuss] Deduplicated zones

2009-11-21 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hi all, If anyone is interested or have comments. I did a very quick test with zones on a deduped zpool and the footprint seems quite low, a little over 10MB per zone after the initial for OSOL default installed zone. http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2009/11/dedupliation-with-zones.html (I know th

Re: [zones-discuss] NFS zones via file based zpools or lofi/loopback

2009-08-19 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello Michael, On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Michael Barrett wrote: Say you create a zpool based on a file that lives on a NFS mount. Then you mount that zpool to a local mount point and give it to your zone to live on. I'm assuming that under the covers this is just another version of th

[zones-discuss] Virtualization performance

2009-06-03 Thread Henrik Johansson
d any hypervisor based solution for systems with heavy workloads. http://www.playingwithwire.com/2009/06/virtual-failure-yippiemove-switches-from-vmware-to-freebsd-jails/ Henrik Johansson http://sparcv9.blogspot.com ___ zones-discuss mailing list

Re: [zones-discuss] Zonestat v1.4 Available

2009-04-09 Thread Henrik Johansson
Nice work Jeff! Some thoughts: Would not 1024 be bettet suited than 1000 for shorten? Currently if I set a swap capping with zonecfg to 256G it is displayed as 275G in zonestat. It would be nice to check for patch 127127-11, 137137-09 etc instead of looking at /etc/release since the syst

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones between different sparc architecture

2009-02-05 Thread Henrik Johansson
ris 10 instead, it was included in 10/08. Regards Henrik Johansson http://sparcv9.blogspot.com ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Does update on attach add information from the new systems kernel patch ?

2009-02-04 Thread Henrik Johansson
in. It's late here in Sweden but i can give you the exact information on what I experienced and how it was solved tomorrow morning if it's of any interest. Regards Henrik Johansson http://sparcv9.blogspot.com ___ zones-discuss mailin

Re: [zones-discuss] Update on attach and upgrades

2008-11-06 Thread Henrik Johansson
On 6 nov 2008, at 15.16, Jerry Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henrik Johansson wrote: >> The easiest way would probably be to identify packages that are not >> to be updated, in my experience packages do not differ that much >> between local zones in p

Re: [zones-discuss] Update on attach and upgrades

2008-11-05 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:47 AM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > I think that just updating the non-global zone for every pkg > that is installed in the global is probably not quite right since > you want to be able to have different software in different zones, > including the global zone. Upgrade is alread

[zones-discuss] Update on attach and upgrades

2008-11-05 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hi all, Some thoughts regarding update on attach, and why I don't think it will be as useful as it could be. Perhaps Jerry or someone could enlighten me or give me some feedback. This mainly applies to whole root zones, since they do not have any inherited package directories. The update t

Re: [zones-discuss] Can I configure my zones on a ZFS filesystem?

2008-06-29 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Jun 29, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Enda O'Connor wrote: > Hi > When was this, or to be precise what rev of patch utils was > installed,119254/11955 SPARC/x86. > > Patching zones on zfs is supported at this point. > Did you report this, what errors did you see etc. > > The original doc mentioned patch a

Re: [zones-discuss] S10U6 zone features

2008-06-25 Thread Henrik Johansson
On Jun 25, 2008, at 2:04 PM, James Carlson wrote: > > If you need information on S10 updates, you should contact your local > support folks. S10 updates aren't OpenSolaris, so there's no reason > to discuss their schedules or content here, and there's no necessary > relationship between features

[zones-discuss] S10U6 zone features

2008-06-24 Thread Henrik Johansson
Any word if we will get any of these features/fix in S10U6, it would make life with zones quite a bit easier... Zone update on attach (PSARC/2007/621) Attach/dettach between sun4u and sun4v (6480464) Vanity naming (PSARC 2006/499) 6637869 zone attach doesn't handle obsolete patches correctly Re

Re: [zones-discuss] Installing a zone with JET

2008-05-29 Thread Henrik Johansson
On May 27, 2008, at 11:54 PM, Crambit Team wrote: > Hi, > I meant to boot over the net a zonelikne boot net - install > but you can't because you don't have OBP at that level > Must be a flag into the zonecfg command or zoneadm. Zones are not separate Solaris instances, they are cr

Re: [zones-discuss] Installing a zone with JET

2008-05-26 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello Team! On May 25, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Crambit Team wrote: > Hi all, > > does anyone know how to jumpstart a new zone over net? Is there a > kind of flag to set when you create a zone? JetZONES should handle zone related tasks in Jet, it is included in the Jet package available on sun.co

Re: [zones-discuss] LDoms

2008-04-16 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hello Sanjay, On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Sanjay Akula wrote: > Can any one tell me how LDoms works? Does this is an independent OS > on each zones or it is dependent on Global zone? > > I'm new to LDoms. LDOMS is not related to the zones other that that it is another way of virtualization