Re: Solaris 11 Zones Anyone?

From: Keith Moore <kmoore_at_zephyrus.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 20:22:39 -0600
Message-Id: <E382A0F8-D2DD-4A14-9200-D2C31F688BEA_at_zephyrus.com>

Yes, each zone is it's own separate environment. There is a global zone as well that in our environment the DBAs do not have access to. Different technologies but the end result is very similar to VMware or other virtualized environments. From within a zone you cannot see the other zones or even know they exist.

We are on Solaris 10 and have seen some weirdness where at low loads some utilities such as uptime and sar show results for the zone only (as they should) but under high load show results for the entire physical server. Don't know if that's been fixed in Solaris 11 or not.

Keith

On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:

> We're getting started on Solaris 11 and using zones and I'm not familiar with installing Oracle inside a zone.
>
> Is a zone basically a standard solaris installation running "virtualized"? In other words, for each zone, do we setup the necessary limits and parameters using the Solaris installation guide - pre-installation tasks? Or is that handled at the main server layer and replicated down to the zones?
>
> My initial reading suggests that each zone is a standalone operating system in a "virtualized" environment but I'm not sure. (Also, is "virtualized" the right term for a zone in this context?)
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>

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