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Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, and Resource Management Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library |
Part I Oracle Solaris Resource Management
1. Introduction to Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones
16. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
17. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
18. About Installing, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Overview)
19. Installing, Booting, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
20. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
21. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
22. About Zone Migrations and the zonep2vchk Tool
23. Migrating Oracle Solaris Systems and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
24. About Automatic Installation and Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11.1 System With Zones Installed
Image Packaging System Software on Systems Running the Oracle Solaris 11.1 Release
About Adding Packages in Systems With Zones Installed
Using the pkg install Command in a Non-Global Zone
Adding Additional Packages in a Zone by Using a Custom AI Manifest
About Removing Packages in Zones
Proxy Configuration on a System That Has Installed Zones
Configuring the Proxy in the Global Zone
Overriding system-repository Proxies by Using https_proxy and http_proxy
How Zone State Affects Package Operations
25. Oracle Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
26. Administering Oracle Solaris Zones (Tasks)
27. Configuring and Administering Immutable Zones
28. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems
Part III Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
29. Introduction to Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
30. Assessing an Oracle Solaris 10 System and Creating an Archive
31. (Optional) Migrating an Oracle Solaris 10 native Non-Global Zone Into an Oracle Solaris 10 Zone
32. Configuring the solaris10 Branded Zone
33. Installing the solaris10 Branded Zone
The solaris packaging repository is used in administering the zones environment.
The zones automatically update when you use the pkg command to upgrade the system to a new version of Oracle Solaris.
The Image Packaging System (IPS), described in pkg(5), is a framework that provides for software lifecycle management such as installation, upgrade, and removal of packages. IPS can be used to create software packages, create and manage packaging repositories, and mirror existing packaging repositories.
After an initial installation of the Oracle Solaris operating system, you can install additional software applications from a packaging repository through the Image Packaging System CLI and GUI (Package Manager) clients.
After you have installed the packages on your system, the IPS clients can be used to search, upgrade, and manage them. The IPS clients can be also used to upgrade an entire system to a new release of Oracle Solaris, create and manage repositories, and mirror an existing repository.
If the system on which IPS is installed can access the Internet, then the clients can access and install software from the Oracle Solaris 11.1 Package Repository (default solaris publisher), http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/.
The zone administrator can use the packaging tools to administer any software installed in a non-global zone, within the limits described in this document.
The following general principles apply when zones are installed:
If a package is installed in the global zone, then the non-global zone can install the package from the system-repository service in the global zone and does not have to use the network to install that package. If that package has not been installed in the global zone, then the zone will need to use the zones-proxy service to access the publishers to install the package over the network, using the global zone.
The global administrator or a user with appropriate authorizations can administer the software on every zone on the system.
The root file system for a non-global zone can be administered from the global zone by using the Oracle Solaris packaging tools. The Oracle Solaris packaging tools are supported within the non-global zone for administering co-packaged (bundled), standalone (unbundled), or third-party products.
The packaging tools work in a zones-enabled environment. The tools allow a package to also be installed in a non-global zone.
Note - While certain package operations are performed, a zone is temporarily locked to other operations of this type. The system might also confirm a requested operation with the administrator before proceeding.