Re: oracle 9i in solaris 10 zones

A solaris zone is not like an HP vpar. A zone in solaris is the rough equivalent of a FreeBSD jail - one common kernel instance among all zones, and all of the segmentation is done by the kernel. So, if you do a ps, you won't see processes in the other zones - but the "master" or "real" OS instance will show all of them.

A vpar, by comparison, is an actual OS instance, like a VMWare instance.

Matt

On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:10 PM, LiShan Cheng wrote:

> Just wondering, is Solaris Zone similar to HP Virtual Partitions?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> On 3/24/06, Scott Canaan <srcdco_at_rit.edu > wrote:
> Roger,
>
> We haven't had any problems with Oracle 9i on Solaris 10.
> However, we've had some very interesting problems running Oracle
> 10g on Solaris 10 with zones. In particular, the changing of the
> number of CPU's has given us some problems. In our installation,
> the SA had us install Oracle in the global zone and then created
> local zones for the individual databases. He was upset that he
> couldn't keep the global zone read only because Oracle wanted to
> write files there (the lock files were the first of many issues
> that we ran into). Zones seem like a wonderful thing for the SA's,
> not so great for the DBA's.
>
>
> Good luck,
>
>
> Scott Canaan '88 ( Scott.Canaan_at_rit.edu)
>
> (585) 475-7886
>
> "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you
> put into it." - Tom Lehrer.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Roger Xu
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> Subject: oracle 9i in solaris 10 zones
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>
> Hi,
>
>
> Is 9i supported with Solaris 10?
>
> Any comments on running two instances of oracle on two different
> zones in a SUN V490 server?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger Xu
>
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