On my solaris server it is joined to my windows active directory server using ldap and kerberos, i can login find with ad users. Building on top of facilities provided by the linux kernel. If you run oracle solaris 10 zones on oracle solaris 11, it is possible to make use of both virtual networking and network resource capabilities, as long as those are created and assigned from the global zone i. Efficient resource utilization is the main goal of this technology. Solution although this is a limitation in solaris 10 nonglobal zone there are 3 alternatives which you can use to overcome this. Solaris containers have a zonepath home which can be a directory on the root file system or on a nonroot file system. Nfs server on solaris 10 branded zone the unix and linux. Lets take an example, we will mount one folder named exportbackup from sun01 local zone to another zone sun02 on projectexportdata location. The zonepath is moved to the target host, where it is attached. There is an llock mount option but i can not find any doc whether this performs the same function as the nolock option on linux. Oracle solaris 11 zone features transitioning from. Detach the zone from the oracle solaris 10 system and attach the zone on the oracle solaris 11 zone. Linux administration interview preparation free email crash course roles and. Im having a similar issue with nfs v4 on solaris 10 sparc 508, which is a fresh initial install.
Verify that the nfs sharing server is indeed sharing. It is backwards compatible with sysv init scripts, and provides features, such as parallel startup of system services at boot time, ondemand activation of daemons, support for system state snapshots, or dependencybased. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Solaris 10 makes up for that by introducing a wealth of new and innovative features that catapult it out of the traditional proprietary unix market where hp, ibm, and sgi live and into the mainstream server and workstation market the realm of. Once this was setup, i quickly realized the need for nfs to be setup and thought that itd be fairly straightforward to setup like it is on linux. From what i can see this mount option is not available on solaris looks like its a linux mount option. The most important aspect of fma to understand is the distinction between errors and faults. These branded zones host oracle solaris 10 user environments.
The nfs share is accessible and mounts without any problems if i. Now im asking the question of how i mount that users windows home area on my solaris server. I need to be able to mount an nfs file system on solaris 10 using the equivalent of the nolock mount option. A local zone cannot be used as a solaris nfs server, that is, it cannot serve any file systems. Originally rpc was disabled on my host, but when i tried to enable. You can permanently fix this issue by having all nfs server mount points auto mountedavailable in nfs client after a system reboot by editing the etcvfstab file. The nfs server service is dependent on numerous other services.
Installing sap systems in solaris 10 zones sap blogs. Linux and solaris having a different set of command line command to use. Once you have stopped the daemon, you will want to restart it using nfs. Thus, a zone should not nfs mount a file system exported by the global zone. Solaris 10 rpc and nfs start solutions experts exchange. Releasing solaris 10 sun introduced a new concept for os based virtualization, called solaris zones. Exclusive ip stack zones can be assigned any ip address from within the zone. A system and service manager that replaces upstart as the default init system.
We have to say big thanks to oracle network engineering team to make it possible. Nfs works on the serverclient model with server sharing the resource and client mounting it. Getting started with solaris 10 must to know keywords. How to enable root access on nfs share in solaris 10 posted on march 19, 2007 march 19, 2007 by dave if you dont care about security and prefer to use only root account across all your machines, including on nfs shared file system, here is how you allow nfs clients root access on a nfs shared file system. Mounting linux nfs shares in solaris 10 first, export a filesystem on your linux box add it to the exports file, and exportfs. In solaris 11,by default zone will be configured with exclusive ip using vnic. Here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. With svcs the service status can be checked, so lets check the status of the nfs server. Is there any virtualization mode like solaris zones for. Ive tried rhel345 and ubuntu clients against a solaris 10 nfs server and they work fine. Funny you should mention it though, because i am in the process of researching how to create a solaris zone. Errors are no longer simply written to the varadmmessages files for a human to diagnose, instead errors are used by the fmd fault management daemon to diagnose faults only the faults are recorded in the varadmmessages files. Solaris nfs guide for beginners network file system nfs is a protocol which allows file systems on one system to be made available on a remote system on the network.
Until solaris 10 807 was released, a local file system was required for this directory. From solaris 11 onwards, you can use zone as nfs servers. Put an opensuse machine and configure its nfs server exactly same as the ubuntu one. Older versions of inetboot from solaris 7 and 8 did not have this problem but the solaris 10 kernel did not like those inetboots. How to configure nfs server and client in solaris 11 unixgeek. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run an oracle solaris release. If the host, network or domain whichever you are using for accesslist matches, the mount will be allowed.
All of those are local file systems putting containers on nas has not been possible. Nfs server on solaris 10 branded zone i am trying to get a nfs share on a solaris 10 branded zone. Nfs export of solaris, nonglobal zone, direct mounted. File systems and nonglobal zones system administration guide. How to check missing nfs mounts in a solaris 10 machine.
You can also go through the below interface questions on specific category. This is setup as pointed out in etcdfsdfstab and as stated at the top of the dfstab file, issue the scvadm command to start the nfs daemon. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. The book covers the topics oracle solaris resource management, zones also known as containers on oracle solaris 10, and lx branded zones. This addition to solaris means significant changes to operations related to service administration. Ive been getting our solaris environment setup in the college of architecture, and one of the things i quickly realized with zones is that im going to need to setup ldap to have any sort of efficient way of managing user accounts. Linux open source community has recently added one very powerful container technology named docker. The service may need to be restarted if this is a new share. For solaris nfs clients, simply execute the mount command as you would normally. You can not make non global zone as nfs server on solaris 10 and below.
The easiest way is the timeout utility, but i dont know if thats readily available on solaris 10. Before kick starting the solaris study lets be aware of few important keywords and facts about the solaris os. Problem with nfs server solaris 10 the unix and linux. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. This feature is called solaris containers for linux applications scla, based on the branded zones functionality introduced in solaris 10 807. Running an nfs server in a zone oracle solaris administration. About zones in its simple form, a zone is a virtual operating system environment created within a single instance of the solaris operating system. Containers that are on nonroot file systems have used ufs, zfs, or vxfs. As you know, in linux server it is less difficult in comparision to solaris server.
These are unixlike systems having similarity in virtual memory, process, kernels, paging, system calls, buffer, cache, multiprocessor support, cpu scheduling and support, resource controls, mapped files etc. These kinds of home directory mounts can also be used with solaris zones. A brief overview of this powerful and impressive free opensource server now included with solaris 10, which effectively turns a solaris machine or other unixlinux machine into a windows nt file server. I ended up replacing linux s kernel based nfs server with the user based one, and that problem went away.
Starting nfs server solaris 10 the unix and linux forums. The oracle solaris 10 container brand is available in opensolaris build 127. Nfs server on solaris 10 branded zone unix and linux forums. Introduction to oracle solaris 10 zones brandz provides the framework to create branded zones, which are used to run applications that cannot be run in an oracle solaris 11 environment.
A zone is a virtual instance of a solaris guest operating system within a solaris host system. To my surprise, solaris clients can access the files shared by opensuse with out any problems. In case of linux, you can see the list of mounted filesystems from etcmtab and procmounts, you may need to find the solaris equivalent. Red hat enterprise linux to oracle solaris 11 comparison. I guess you have to use the right inetboot for the kernel version. While setting zfs parameter sharenfs, he encounters an. I am trying to mount an nfs share to a solaris 10 machine at bootup without any luck so far. You want to share a directory in solaris, may be, the home of the users, or a directory with binaries. Might be worth doing a complete patch update using smpatch on solaris as. The zone is halted and detached from its current host. Docker is a lightweight containers that run processes in isolation. In this article, we would learn how we mount folder from one nonglobal zone to another zone on solaris 11 operating system using network file sharing.
This techrecipe describes the command that will enable the nfs server in solaris 10. Tips and tricks for unmounting an network file system nfs. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management is for anyone responsible for administering one or. I want to share the directory from non global zone to other linux server by using nfs.
I am trying to get a nfs share on a solaris 10 branded zone. Linux vs solaris top 8 beneficial differences you need. If there is no match, access will be denied and the mount will fail. I realised the other day that i can run services in zones or containers which are brand new in solaris 10, so what i probably need to do to fulfill my requirement is create a new zone which contains only the local network interface and the relevent file system then bind. However, i still cannot find any way to enable nfs server services on either the nonglobal zone solaris 10 or on the global zone solaris 11. Solaris 10s zone partitioning technology can be used to create local zones that behave like virtual servers. Im trying to mount a windows nfs share to my solaris server. A process is a program running or being executed on the computer.
The book covers the topics resource management, oracle solaris zones, and oracle solaris 10 zones solaris10 branded zones. The problem is only when the nfs client machine is solaris and the nfs server is ubuntu. The new service management facility in solaris 10 provides a powerful means of administering services. Every process has a unique identifier number known as process id. Nfs server on solaris 10 branded zone i have read that this is not possible.
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