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InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2025-04-14

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: Solaris

Section I. Overview of InfoScale solutions in Solaris virtualization environments
1. Overview of InfoScale virtualization solutions
Section II. Zones
1. InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Solaris Native Zones
Section III. Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Section IV. Reference
1. Appendix A. Where to find more information

Configuring a zone resource in a failover service group with the hazonesetup utility

The hazonesetup utility helps you configure a zone under VCS. This section covers typical scenarios based on where the zone root is located.

Two typical setups for zone configuration in a failover scenario follow:

Zone root on local storage
To configure a zone under VCS control using the hazonesetup utility when the zone root is on local storage
Zone root on shared storage
To configure a zone under VCS control using the hazonesetup utility when the zone root is on shared storage

Consider an example in a two-node cluster (sysA and sysB). Zone local-zone is configured on both the nodes.

To configure a zone under VCS control using the hazonesetup utility when the zone root is on local storage

Boot the non-global zone on first node outside VCS.
```
sysA# zoneadm -z local-zone boot
```
To use the hazonesetup utility, ensure you have a IP configured for the non-global zone and hostname of the global zone is resolvable from non-global zone.
```
# zlogin local-zone
# ping sysA
```
Run the hazonesetup utility with correct arguments on the first node. This adds failover zone service group and zone resource in VCS configuration.
```
sysA# hazonesetup -g zone_grp -r zone_res -z local-zone\
-p password -a -s sysA,sysB
```
Note:
If you want to use a particular user for password-less communication use -u option of the hazonesetup utility. If -u option is not specified a default user is used for password-less communication.
Switch the zone service group to next node in the cluster.
```
sysA# hagrp -switch zone_grp -to sysB
```
Run the hazonesetup utility with correct arguments on the node. The hazonesetup utlity detects that the zone service group and zone resource are already present in VCS configuration and update the configuration accordingly for password-less communication.
```
sysB# hazonesetup -g zone_grp -r zone_res -z local-zone\
-p password -a -s sysA,sysB
```
Repeat step 4 and step 5 for all the remaining nodes in the cluster.

To configure a zone under VCS control using the hazonesetup utility when the zone root is on shared storage

If direct VxFS mount points are added to the zones then VCS mount resource need not be configured. Set the required dependency between storage resources (DiskGroup->Volume->Mount). Make sure you configure all the required attributes of all the storage resources in order to bring them online on cluster node.

sysA# hagrp -add zone_grp
sysA# hagrp -modify zone_grp SystemList sysA 0 sysB 1 
sysA# hares -add zone_dg DiskGroup zone_grp 
sysA# hares -add zone_vol Volume zone_grp 
sysA# hares -add zone_mnt Mount zone_grp 
sysA# hares -link zone_mnt zone_vol
sysA# hares -link zone_vol zone_dg
sysA# hares -modify zone_dg DiskGroup zone_dg
sysA# hares -modify zone_dg Enabled 1
sysA# hares -modify zone_vol Volume volume_name
sysA# hares -modify zone_vol DiskGroup zone_dg
sysA# hares -modify zone_vol Enabled 1
sysA# hares -modify zone_mnt MountPoint /zone_mnt
sysA# hares -modify zone_mnt BlockDevice 
/dev/vx/dsk/zone_dg/volume_name
sysA# hares -modify zone_mnt FSType vxfs
sysA# hares -modify zone_mnt MountOpt rw
sysA# hares -modify zone_mnt FsckOpt %-y
sysA# hares -modify zone_mnt Enabled 1

When the zone root is on a ZFS file system, use the following commands:

sysA# hagrp -add zone_grp
sysA# hagrp -modify zone_grp SystemList sysA 0 sysB 1
sysA# hares -add zone_zpool Zpool zone_grp
sysA# hares -modify zone_zpool AltRootPath /zone_root_mnt
sysA# hares -modify zone_zpool PoolName zone1_pool
sysA# hares -modify zone_zpool Enabled 1

Bring the service group online on first node. This mounts the zone root on first node.
```
sysA# hagrp -online zone_grp -sys sysA
```
Boot the local zone on first node outside VCS.
```
sysA# zoneadm -z local-zone boot
```
To use the hazonesetup utility, ensure you have a IP configured for the non-global zone and hostname of the global zone is resolvable from non-global zone.
```
# zlogin local-zone
# ping sysA
```
Run the hazonesetup utility with correct arguments on the first node. Use the service group configured in step 1. This adds the zone resource to VCS configuration.
```
sysB# hazonesetup -g zone_grp -r zone_res -z local-zone \
-p password -a -s sysA,sysB
```
Note:
If you want to use a particular user for password-less communication use -u option of the hazonesetup utility. If -u option is not specified a default user is used for password-less communication.
Set the proper dependency between the Zone resource and other storage resources. The Zone resource should depend on storage resource (Mount or Zpool ->Zone).
```
sysA# hares -link zone_res zone_mnt
```
When the zone root is on a ZFS file system, use following command:
```
sysA# hares -link zone_res zone_zpool
```
Switch the service group to next node in the cluster.
```
sysA# hagrp -switch zone_grp -to sysB
```
Run the hazonesetup utility with correct arguments on the node. The hazonesetup utility detects that the service group and the zone resource are already present in VCS configuration and update the configuration accordingly for password-less communication.
```
sysB# hazonesetup -g zone_grp -r zone_res -z local-zone\
-p password -a -s sysA,sysB
```
Repeat step 7 and step 8 for all the remaining nodes in the cluster