Mikael Kjerrman wrote: >> From an isolation perspective are there any drawbacks from creating and >> managing one zpool from the global zone and adding datasets to the local >> zones. What comes to mind are the idea of not sharing anything between >> the zones, I realise that we already share the network for instance, but >> I just want to verify this about the datasets aswell.
When you say "not sharing anything between the zones" are you talking only about ZFS datasets which would be used for applications and data? One drawback to sharing a pool among multiple zones is that you cannot export parts of a pool. You must export the entire pool. This might be important to you, but it might be irrelevant. Someday you might want to move a zone to a different system. The limitation on exporting zpools means that you cannot simply export the dataset from the original system and import it on the new system. For example, if you want to move a zone which uses a ZFS file system for its applications, you must use "zfs send" and "zfs receive" to accomplish your goal. N.B.: with Solaris 10 update 4, more network isolation is being added to the zones framework. This will allow you to give a zone exclusive access to a NIC and allow the zone to control its own network connection. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff VICTOR Sun Microsystems jeff.victor @ sun.com OS Ambassador Sr. Technical Specialist Solaris 10 Zones FAQ: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
