Comments on: Shared-IP and Exclusive-IP in Non-Global Solaris Zones

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[...] IP address configuration in Solaris zones [...]

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:04:53 +0000

bbr, thanks for asking!

Last time I checked, native NFS server functionality was global zone only. I think exclusive-ip provides direct access to networking stack, but not Solaris kernel.

Here’s the NFS related FAQ entry for zones:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq/#svc_nfs

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:57:10 +0000

Prashanth, you have to manage IP address from within the exclusive-ip zone.

By: bbr

bbr — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:03:15 +0000

does it means you can serve NFS request within a zone with exclusive IP? aka run NFS server inside a zone?

bbr

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:47:44 +0000

I have one NIC in my server.I need to have IPSec setup for the local zone and hence have to create this zone in exclusive mode. If I do so, can the global zone be still assigned a IP on this NIC

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:19:05 +0000

Indeed, Eric!

It’s always possible manage the zone via local console (zlogin -C) though.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:15:18 +0000

It would be useful if ip-type was set per interface instead of globally per zone. Then you could use one shared network for management in addition to the exclusive interface(s).