Solaris 11 Complete Reference of Solaris Zones (Part 2)

 Last session we gone through the basic of Solaris Zones, in this article you will get more details about the configuring Zone and adding the resources. Let we can start with Zone Components and sub commands which will be very important while configuring the Zones.

Zone Components	Definition
zonepath	Path of the zone root which is from global zone's file space.
Autoboot	Define whether we need automatically boot the zone
pool	Associate the zone with a resource pool; multiple zones may share a pool.
net	Network interface of Zone
fs	File systems from the zone's /etc/vfstab, automounted file systems configured within the zone, manually mounted file systems or ZFS mounts from within the zone
dataset	To manage non-global zone with ZFS file system.
inherit-pkg-dir	In a sparse root zone, represents directories containing packaged software that a non-global zone shares with the global zone. (Should not be used in a whole root zone.)
device	Devices that should be configured in a non-global zone.
rctl	Zone-wide  resource controls  such as zone.cpu-shares andzone.max-lwps
attr	Zone comments

also please note the below "sub commands", this will also important while configuration the zone.

SUB COMMANDS
add	Add the specified resource or components
cancel	Ends the resource specification and returns to the global scope without retaining partially specified resources.
commit	Save the current configuration to the disk.
create	Create new zone configurations
delete	Destroy configuration.
end	Ends the resource specification
exit	Ends the zonecfg session.
info	Display information about the configuration of the current scope.
remove	Remove the specified resource
revert	Return to the last state written to disk.
set	Set the specified property to the specified value
verify	Verify the current configuration for correctness.

Let we can see how to add the listed zone components with using "zonecfg" command

* Set zonepath and Autoboot (the zones servicesvc:/system/zones:defaultmust also be enabled when we go for autoboot=true)

zonecfg:zone1> set zonepath=/export/home/zone1
zonecfg:zone1> set autoboot=true
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit

* In the following example, Filesystem is added into the non-global zone

bash-3.00# zonecfg -z zone1
zonecfg:zone1> add fs
zonecfg:zone1:fs> set dir=/test/mnt
zonecfg:zone1:fs> set special=/dev/vx/dsk/zonedg/vol1
zonecfg:zone1:fs> set raw=/dev/vx/rdsk/zonedg/vol1
zonecfg:zone1:fs> set type=vxfs
zonecfg:zone1:fs> end
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit

* In the following example, Network is added into the non-global zone

zonecfg:zone1> add net
zonecfg:zone1:net> set physical=e1000g0
zonecfg:zone1:net> set address=192.168.10.35
zonecfg:zone1:net> end
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit

* In the following example, ZFS Dataset filesystem is added into the non-global zone

bash-3.00# zonecfg -z zone1
zonecfg:zone1> add dataset
zonecfg:zone1:dataset> set name=zonepool/zone1vol
zonecfg:zone1:dataset> end
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit

* In this example, Specify the Memory Limits. Each limit is optional, but at least one must be set.

zonecfg:zone1> add capped-memory
zonecfg:zone1:capped-memory> set physical=50m
zonecfg:zone1:capped-memory> set swap=100m
zonecfg:zone1:capped-memory> set locked=30m
zonecfg:zone1:capped-memory> end
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit

* In this example, Assigning Dedicated CPU (1-3). we can set the importance as well.

zonecfg:zone1> add dedicated-cpu
zonecfg:zone1:dedicated-cpu> set ncpus=1-3
zonecfg:zone1:dedicated-cpu> set importance=2
zonecfg:zone1:dedicated-cpu> end
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit

*In this example, specifies Capped CPU of 3.5 CPUs for the zone1

zonecfg:zone1> add capped-cpu
zonecfg:zone1:capped-cpu> set ncpus=3.5
zonecfg:zone1:capped-cpu> end
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
zonecfg:zone1> exit