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OpenSolaris Project: Zone Manager

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Overview

The purpose of this project is to simplify Solaris zones creation and management down to a single non-interactive command line tool. The Zone Manager (zonemgr) should enable administrators to do 90% of zone creation and management. Note however, that this project is in NO WAY intended to replace the existing zonecfg/zoneadm commands but rather to supplement them.

Project Goals

  • Simplify zones creation
  • Simplify zones management
  • Incorporate Solaris features into zone creation/management such as resource controls, minimization, service lockdown,…
  • Incorporate external features such as network package repository based package installation.

This project will continue so long as there is sufficient interest to keep it around.

Status

  • Version 1.8.1 is currently in Beta to fix 1.8 bugs.
  • Version 1.8 is currently available for general use.
  • Version 1.7 End of Life will occur by the end of April, 2007.

Download

You can download zonemgr by clicking the respective version below.

Note that all versions of the Zone Manager is now licensed exclusively under CDDL. If OpenSolaris adds support for a GPL license at some point in the future, the Zone Manager will also also add support for that version of GPL as well. CDDL license details can be found at the following URL: http://www.sun.com/cddl

Documentation

You can run zonemgr with the -h option to view the help information.

Alternatively, you can see the version specific help pages here:

You can also use the following presentations to get a basic overview of the Zone Manager.
Use it to educate your friends and family on the ways of the Zone Manager. ;-)

  • Zones Automation In The Real World ODP PDF
  • Zone Manager Introduction ODP PDF

Support

Although the intent of this project is to simplify zones management, it is not a supported part of Solaris. Thus the Zone Manager and its associated scripts are NOT in any way supported. However, best effort is made by the contributors to address bugs as soon as possible.

Contributions and Reporting Bugs

Discuss issues or feature requests on the Zones-Discuss community.

More information

I have a secondary server that hosts information about the Zone Manager available here as well.

Blogs

jclingan - lzPack GlassFish installer on the Mac

Dec 21, 9:29 AM

First off, I'd like to give a big thanks to Julien Ponge for the GlassFish V2UR1 lzPack powered installer . Impressive. Works like a charm. I thought I'd blog about the Mac installer. The installer ...

jclingan - GlassFish V2 Update Release 1 Released

Dec 19, 5:19 PM

Three months after the release of GlassFish V2, we already have an update release. Alexis has a good writeup of what's in this release. I'd like to point out a few items in a bit more detail. First, ...

jclingan - BEA taking notice of GlassFish

Sep 27, 10:07 AM

Looks like BEAis taking notice of GlassFish. Bill Roth offered some counter-arguments to our "10% better performance than BEA WebLogic 9.x" comparison, which is both expected and an appropriate thing ...

jclingan - GlassFish V2: The start of something great

Sep 22, 2:08 PM

What a difference two weeks make. Two weeks ago I was pulling (what's left of) my hair out trying to get the T's crossed and the i's dotted on GlassFish before the Monday launch. Pre-and-post-launch ...

jclingan - GlassFish V2 released with cost-efficient annual subscriptions

Sep 17, 9:00 AM

There is a good reason for the rather long pause at The Clingan Zone. As mentioned previously , I moved out of the field and into corporate as the GlassFish Group Product Manager. In that role, I ...