> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ray Arachelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:22:04 -0400 > Subject: [Solaris-Users] a couple of questions about Zones > If I have a machine with a large number of cores (say 24), and dedicate > 4 of the CPUs to the zone, psrinfo shows the number of CPU's dedicated > to that zone as 4, however, the global zone still shows 24. Does this > mean that if there's enough stuff running in global that it can preempt > the stuff running inside the zone? The concern here is that the stuff > we want to run in the zone is a bit more critical than in global, so we > wouldn't want global to eat up CPU resources of the zone. (I suppose we > could repurpose the stuff running inside global and the zone, but then > we'd get the reverse isolation issue.) > > > The other questions is that there's an old E450 running Solaris 8 and > it's got a bunch of stuff installed on it. Would it be possible to > somehow convert all the software and data of that E450 into a container > or zone and run that on a more modern machine - say a T5420 which runs > Solaris 10 (without upgrading the stuff running under the E450 to > Solaris 10?)
I'm not an expert by any means, but I'm pretty sure you can run a Solaris 8 app (or maybe even an entire machine?) in a zone on a Solaris 10 machine. Check out this site: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/containers_learning_center.jsp Mike _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
