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Operating Systems Solaris Available design options for a cluster hosting many different virtualized Solaris versions Post 302902406 by Lyxix on Tuesday 20th of May 2014 11:34:21 AM
Old 05-20-2014
Oracle Getting there...

Peasant:

Thanks so much for your help, and what a huge help it was! I read what you wrote, researched a bit more on LDOMs (that I now know is synonymous with Oracle VM Server, thanks to you), and read an article that someone suggested to me on another site:

ht tps :// blogs.oracle.com/orasysat/entry/zones_clusters_clustering_zones_zoneclusters

This is what it looks like I need to learn about and implement. How does this sound for an extremely broad overview:

Step 1) Cluster the 4 physical servers together (figure out what type of cluster I need, and use Oracle Cluster 4.x on top of Solaris 11.1 or maybe 11.2 beta?)

Step 2) Create Zoneclusters, probably one for each type of OS I need to run (a Sol 8 ZC, and a Sol 10 ZC, and then possibly a Sol 11 ZC to try to migrate the systems up if possible...)

Step 3) Create Logical Domains (LDOMs) for each of my old systems, and put them on the zone clusters, using Oracle VM Server.

In this setup, if a node fails, the virtual system will go down, but I should be able to configure it to start up another node automatically with minimal downtime for the virtual systems?

I realize "I should be" is reaching, since I have virtually zilch cluster experience and limited Solaris experience, but let's rephrase that to "it's possible to". I realize I have a lot of work ahead of me, but thankfully I have no strict time limits to get this implemented and can work one step at a time.

As far as cost goes, the one good thing is that, per the Oracle license agreement, you don't need to pay for SC while it's in the development stages. Directly from the OTN License Agreement for Oracle Solaris Cluster:

"You may not:

- use the Programs for your own internal business purposes (other than developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your applications)"

Only after I get the thing actually working and implemented will we have to shell out the big bucks. Presuming I do get it working, I will have achieved the "proof of concept" with these cheaper T5220 servers and the company will then be willing to buy some nice T4's or better to go along with the pricey software.

Thanks so much for your help - does this all sound correct so far?

-Lyxix
 

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SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)						systemd-detect-virt					    SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)

NAME
systemd-detect-virt - Detect execution in a virtualized environment SYNOPSIS
systemd-detect-virt [OPTIONS...] DESCRIPTION
systemd-detect-virt detects execution in a virtualized environment. It identifies the virtualization technology and can distinguish full machine virtualization from container virtualization. systemd-detect-virt exits with a return value of 0 (success) if a virtualization technology is detected, and non-zero (error) otherwise. By default, any type of virtualization is detected, and the options --container and --vm can be used to limit what types of virtualization are detected. When executed without --quiet will print a short identifier for the detected virtualization technology. The following technologies are currently identified: Table 1. Known virtualization technologies (both VM, i.e. full hardware virtualization, and container, i.e. shared kernel virtualization) +----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+ |Type | ID | Product | +----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+ |VM | qemu | QEMU software virtualization, | | | | without KVM | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | kvm | Linux KVM kernel virtual machine, | | | | with whatever software, except | | | | Oracle Virtualbox | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | zvm | s390 z/VM | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | vmware | VMware Workstation or Server, and | | | | related products | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | microsoft | Hyper-V, also known as Viridian or | | | | Windows Server Virtualization | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | oracle | Oracle VM VirtualBox (historically | | | | marketed by innotek and Sun | | | | Microsystems), | | | | for legacy and KVM | | | | hypervisor | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | xen | Xen hypervisor (only domU, not dom0) | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | bochs | Bochs Emulator | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | uml | User-mode Linux | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | parallels | Parallels Desktop, Parallels Server | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | bhyve | bhyve, FreeBSD hypervisor | +----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+ |Container | openvz | OpenVZ/Virtuozzo | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | lxc | Linux container implementation by | | | | LXC | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | lxc-libvirt | Linux container implementation by | | | | libvirt | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | systemd-nspawn | systemd's minimal container | | | | implementation, see systemd- | | | | nspawn(1) | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | docker | Docker container manager | | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | | rkt | rkt app container runtime | +----------+----------------+--------------------------------------+ If multiple virtualization solutions are used, only the "innermost" is detected and identified. That means if both machine and container virtualization are used in conjunction, only the latter will be identified (unless --vm is passed). OPTIONS
The following options are understood: -c, --container Only detects container virtualization (i.e. shared kernel virtualization). -v, --vm Only detects hardware virtualization). -r, --chroot Detect whether invoked in a chroot(2) environment. In this mode, no output is written, but the return value indicates whether the process was invoked in a chroot() environment or not. --private-users Detect whether invoked in a user namespace. In this mode, no output is written, but the return value indicates whether the process was invoked inside of a user namespace or not. See user_namespaces(7) for more information. -q, --quiet Suppress output of the virtualization technology identifier. -h, --help Print a short help text and exit. --version Print a short version string and exit. EXIT STATUS
If a virtualization technology is detected, 0 is returned, a non-zero code otherwise. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-nspawn(1), chroot(2), namespaces(7) systemd 237 SYSTEMD-DETECT-VIRT(1)
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