[OmniOS-discuss] zones on external storage

[Michael Stapleton]

Sorry, no live migration of individual zones in Solaris 11 either.
Zen, LDOMs or VirtualBox VMs only.

Of course if Solaris11 with zones is running in a VM or LDOM and it is
migrated, all the zones in the OS are migrated as well.


Mike

On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 15:41 +0100, Johan Kragsterman wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Not entirely true, that.
> 
> 
> With oracle enterprise manager opc center you can live migrate zones.
> 
> 
> How they do it, I don't know...
> 
> 
> But since they can do it with opc center, it should be possible with
> cli as well, wouldn't it?
> 
> 
> Rgrds Johan
> 
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> 
> -----sriramnrn at gmail.com skrev: -----
> 
> Till: Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se>
> Från: Sriram Narayanan 
> Sänt av: sriramnrn at gmail.com
> Datum: 2012.12.15 13:09
> Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zones on external storage
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Johan Kragsterman
> <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Yeah, I know that, and I had this discussion with the joyent people.
> That is
> > the main reason I moved my interest from SmartOS to OmniOS, because
> their
> > lack of interest for supporting external storage.
> >
> > In my world, not-alive-migration is better than no migration at all.
> >
> > I have also seen that Solaris 11.1 is supporting some kind of live
> migration
> > for zones, Would be nice to hear from OmniTI if they plan something
> like
> > that?
> >
> 
> The Live migration is for Xen based instances running on Oracle OVM
> (based on Xen) on x86, and for LDOMs on SPARC, and not for zones.
> 
> Please see :
> http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7441-How-to-show-off-live-migration-with-a-SPARC-system.html
> for a commentary on live migration for LDOM on SPARC.
> 
> >
> > -----sriramnrn at gmail.com skrev: -----
> > Till: Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se>
> > Från: Sriram Narayanan
> > Sänt av: sriramnrn at gmail.com
> > Datum: 2012.12.15 12:26
> > Kopia: omnios-discuss <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
> > Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zones on external storage
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Johan Kragsterman
> > <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >>  I've started to experiment with zones on external Fc storage. This
> >> because
> >> I work very much with Fc, and I'd like a way to smoothly move a
> zone to
> >> another host. Things seem to be that you need to put each zone on
> their
> >> own
> >> zpool, is it so? What I've done so far is to provision a LUN to the
> host,
> >> create a zool(zonepool1) of it, and then set
> zonepath=zonepool1/z1(name of
> >> the zone).
> >>  Then it seems to be the way to detach the zpool(zonepool1) from
> the
> >> original host, and then reattach it to the new pool, is that right?
> >>
> >>  Anything else that I should think of here...?
> >
> >
> > You'll also need to remember that there's no live migration or
> > suspension of zone processes.
> > For those that need more resiliency, it's better to focus on
> > application level loadbalancing and failover than depend on the
> > underlying infrastructure for help. This is the approach that Joyent
> > adopt, and also one which lends itself to horizontal scaling (where
> > you add more zones over a number of boxes).
> >
> >>  Rgrds Johan
> > --
> > Belenix: www.belenix.org
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Belenix: www.belenix.org
> 
> 
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