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Re: oracle 9i in solaris 10 zones

From: LiShan Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:26:12 +0100
Message-ID: <6e9345580603240926m50040a5am42b043399c38321d@mail.gmail.com>


Ah right, is it like Single Kernel Image Virtualization?

Regards
*

*
On 3/24/06, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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_at_rit.edu > 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_at_rit.edu)
> >
> > (585) 475-7886
> >
> > "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put
> > into it." - Tom Lehrer.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
> > *On Behalf Of *Roger Xu
> > *Sent:* Friday, March 24, 2006 11:13 AM
> > *To:* Oracle-L_at_Freelists. Org (E-mail)
> > *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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