Easy and Fast Solaris Zone Creation
Posted by Sam
Want to automate the creation of Solaris zones or just want to create zones faster? Using Zone Manager you can save yourself several steps and even some time. As I'll show below you can easily create a brand new zone in less than two minutes with one command. Grab Zone Manager and stick it in your path. I put mine in /usr/sbin. Here's an example:
bash-3.00# time zonemgr -a add \
> -n web1 \
> -z /opt/zones \
> -P secret \
> -I "10.100.1.1|bge0|255.255.255.0|web1" \
> -C /etc/resolv.conf \
> -C /etc/nsswitch.conf
Checking to see if the zone IP address (10.100.1.1) is already in use...IP is available.
Preparing to install zone < web1 >.
Creating list of files to copy from the global zone.
Copying <297> files to the zone.
Initializing zone product registry.
Determining zone package initialization order.
Preparing to initialize <205> packages on the zone.
Initialized <205> packages on zone.
Zone < web1 > is initialized.
The file contains a log of the zone installation.
Creating the sysidcfg file for automated zone configuration.
Copying (/etc/resolv.conf) from the global zone to (/etc/resolv.conf) in the non-global zone.
Copying (/etc/nsswitch.conf) from the global zone to (/etc/nsswitch.conf) in the non-global zone.
Copy completed.
Booting zone for the first time.
Waiting for first boot tasks to complete.
Updating netmask information.
Copying (/etc/nsswitch.conf) from the global zone to (/etc/nsswitch.conf) in the non-global zone.
Copy completed.
Updating /etc/inet/hosts of the global zone with the webshell IP information.
Zone web1 is ready.
real 1m52.449s
user 0m12.063s
sys 0m16.275s
What we did
Here's what we did, line by line.
- Add the zone
- Name the zone web1
- Create the zone in /opt/zones/web1
- Set the password to secret
- Set the IP address, ethernet adaptor, subnet mask and hostname
- Copy the resolv.conf file from the global zone
- Copy the nsswitch.conf file from the global zone
That's it! With one command and in less than two minutes you have a brand new, fully functional zone. For more information on Zone Manager check out the docs. You can also subscribe to the Zone Manager blog. To see how much time and how many steps that saves check out this blog. Happy Zoning!
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