Here are the steps to create a containers on Solaris 11 to install Oracle RAC:
Suppose you need to create a container that uses igb0 as public interface and igb2 as private interface for Oracle RAC installation. It uses a pool with one CPU in it and mounts 2 FS. This blog summarizes the steps to create such a container.
- If the Servers do not enough physical NICs
- Virtualize the NICs
- Create VNICs for public and private interface
- dladm create-vnic -l igb0 vnic5
- dladm create-vnic -l igb2 priv5
- Create an exclusive IP container with these interfaces
- set ip-type=exclusive
- add net set physical=vnic5 end
- add net set physical= priv5 end
- Setup private and public interface
- Ipadm show-if
- Ipadm create-ip priv5
- Ipadm create-addr -T static -a 199.6.6.6/24 priv5/v4addr
- Ipadm show-addr
- No need to update any /etc files with hostname if ipadm command is used
- Configure shared memory
- Set max-shm-memory=50G
- Add ASM device/s to the zone
- Add Device:
• Set match: <device name>
• Set allow-partition=true
• Set allow-raw-io=true - End
- Provide right privileges to the container
- Set limitpriv=default,proc_priocntl
- Install RAC as you install in global container
Suppose you need to create a container that uses igb0 as public interface and igb2 as private interface for Oracle RAC installation. It uses a pool with one CPU in it and mounts 2 FS. This blog summarizes the steps to create such a container.
- Create the VNICs for public and private interface
- # dladm create-vnic -l igb0 vnic5
- # dladm create-vnic -l igb2 priv5
- Create a pool with one CPU in it:
poolcfg -c 'create pset rac5_set(uint pset.min=1;uint pset.max=1)'
poolcfg -c ' create pool rac5Pool'
poolcfg -c 'associate pool rac5Pool (pset rac1_set)'
poolcfg -c 'transfer to pset rac5_set(cpu 4)'
pooladm -c
pooladm
Check out http://ritukamboj.blogspot.com/search/label/ResourcePool for more info.
Check out http://ritukamboj.blogspot.com/search/label/ResourcePool for more info.
- Create a zone:
Create racZone5 directory under /zonepools/zones and issue the following command:
- zonecfg -z racZone5 -f zonetemplate.cfg
where zonetemplate.cfg is as under
create
create
set zonepath=/zonepools/zones/racZone5
set autoboot=false
set limitpriv=default,proc_priocntl
set ip-type=exclusive
add net
set physical=vnic5
end
add net
set physical= priv5
end
set max-shm-memory=50G
add fs
set dir=/u05
set special=/u05
set type=lofs
end
add fs
set dir=/installer
set special=/installer
set type=lofs
end
set pool=rac5Pool
Run
- zoneadm -z racZone5 install
- zoneadm -z racZone5 boot
- zlogin -C racZone5 (for inital configuration)
- Verify that you can see the VNICS in the container
root@etchst8-zone22:~# dladm show-link
LINK CLASS MTU STATE OVER
vnic5 vnic 1500 up ?
priv5 vnic 1500 up ?
root@etchst8-zone22:~# ^C
- Verify that public interface NIC is plumped up (through initial configuration)
root@etchst8-zone23:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME CLASS STATE ACTIVE OVER
lo0 loopback ok yes --
vnic6 ip ok yes --
- Plump the private interface
- ipadm show-if
- ipadm create-ip priv6
- ipadm create-addr -T static -a 199.6.6.6/24 priv6/v4addr
root@etchst8-zone23:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ TYPE STATE ADDR
lo0/v4 static ok 127.0.0.1/8
vnic6/v4 static ok 10.6.138.55/24
priv6/v4addr static duplicate 199.6.6.6/24
lo0/v6 static ok ::1/128
vnic6/v6 addrconf ok fe80::8:20ff:fe31:49c4/10
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