A solaris zone is not like an HP vpar. A zone in solaris is the
rough equivalent of a FreeBSD jail - one common kernel instance among
all zones, and all of the segmentation is done by the kernel. So, if
you do a ps, you won't see processes in the other zones - but the
"master" or "real" OS instance will show all of them.
A vpar, by comparison, is an actual OS instance, like a VMWare instance.
Matt
On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:10 PM, LiShan Cheng wrote:
Just wondering, is Solaris Zone similar to HP Virtual Partitions?
Regards
On 3/24/06, Scott Canaan <srcdco@xxxxxxx > wrote: Roger,
We haven't had any problems with Oracle 9i on Solaris 10. However, we've had some very interesting problems running Oracle 10g on Solaris 10 with zones. In particular, the changing of the number of CPU's has given us some problems. In our installation, the SA had us install Oracle in the global zone and then created local zones for the individual databases. He was upset that he couldn't keep the global zone read only because Oracle wanted to write files there (the lock files were the first of many issues that we ran into). Zones seem like a wonderful thing for the SA's, not so great for the DBA's.
Good luck,
Scott Canaan '88 ( Scott.Canaan@xxxxxxx)
(585) 475-7886
"Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer.
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: oracle-l- bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Xu
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:13 AM
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Subject: oracle 9i in solaris 10 zones
Hi,
Is 9i supported with Solaris 10?
Any comments on running two instances of oracle on two different zones in a SUN V490 server?
Thanks,
Roger Xu
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