There are times when it would be useful for a zone to access it’s host system’s CDROM device. This can be done using the Loop Back File System(lofs). Procedure for Solaris 10 # zonecfg -z zone01 zonecfg:zone01> add fs zonecfg:zone01:fs> set dir=/cdrom zonecfg:zone01:fs> set special=/cdrom zonecfg:zone01:fs> set type=lofs zonecfg:zone01:fs> end zonecfg:zone01> commit zonecfg:zone01> exit Solaris […]
Archives for June 2016
Solaris Resource Manager Basics : Understanding Resource Pools
What is a resource pool – Resource pools provide a mechanism for partitioning a system into persistent processor sets with optional scheduling class assignments. – The real power of resource pools is realized when projects are associated with pools. Remember that a project can be viewed as an aggregation of related tasks that collectively represent […]
Solaris Zones : How To Change The Number Of CPUs Using Dynamic Resource Pools
Resource pools in Solaris 10/solaris 11 provide a mechanism to assign processor set and scheduling class to a non-global zone. The resource pool framework is as shown in the figure below. The dynamic resource pools come in extremely useful when you have a variable load on zones and you want to dynamically change the resource […]