SFHA install in Solaris 10 with Solaris 9 Branded Zone

The Zone agent boots the local zone with 'zoneadm -z <zone_anme> boot' command. The zoneadm internally might be booting the zone into single-user mode and then into multi-user mode. The Zone agent will not have any control over the actions performed by zoneadm or containers.

You can check this behavior by disabling the Zone resource for solaris 9 brand zone and booting the zone outside of VCS with the above command. I believe this is a natural process in booting the Zone or system into single-user mode and then into multi-user mode.

If you see any issue with this process you can check with Oracle on the correct behavior.

Regards,

Venkat

Thank you all reply,

I have use the hazonesetup to create the zone agents, however it is the same issue when online the zone like below console log messages.

NOTICE: Zone booting up]

SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_Virtual 64-bit
Copyright (c) 2008, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates.All rights reserved


INIT: SINGLE USER MODE

Type control-d to proceed with normal startup,
(or give root password for system maintenance):
[NOTICE: Zone halted]

[NOTICE: Zone booting up]

SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_Virtual 64-bit
Copyright (c) 2008, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates.All rights reserved

Hostname: test09
The system is coming up.  Please wait.
starting rpc services: rpcbind done.
syslog service starting.
May 27 14:42:14 test09 sendmail[11992]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
May 27 14:42:14 test09 sendmail[11993]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
prtconf: devinfo facility not available
prtconf: devinfo facility not available
The system is ready.

test09 console login: May 27 14:42:15 test09 snmpXdmid: Send Trap failed Return code =
May 27 14:43:14 test09 sendmail[11992]: unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name
May 27 14:43:14 test09 sendmail[11993]: unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name

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When I run "zoneadm -z test09 boot", the zone will boot up to multi-user mode directly.

Hi, Sfchan

 Do you check container's version:

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The Solaris 9 Containers version is 1.0.1 

I had run the other server with the same Solaris 10 and SFHA, it is the same result, so it may the online script issue

Hi, sfchan

 You can contact support engineer if  it's a agent issue of vcs.

Have you tested running "zoneadm -z zone_name boot" from a shell prompt as VCS is just calling the Solaris command to boot the zone and so it maybe this is expected behaviour from a Solaris point of view.

I suspect you will find that running "zoneadm -z zone_name boot" manually does the same, so you should check with Oracle if you can change the Zone configuration to prevent this happening.

Regarding hazonesetup - I don't believe this is required - this is just a wizard to set-up service group and resources and setup passwordless communication between local (non-global) zone and global zone.  In VCS 5.1 the passwordless communication between local zone and global zone is checked to see if it needs setuping up everytime the resource onlines and it if needs setting up the online does this by creating a VCS user and then uses halogin with this user in the local zone so you can check this has happened by seeing if there is a .vcspasswd file in root's home diretory in the local zone.  I assume this works the same in VCS 6.0

Mike