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OSOL, OSOL64, SOL10: Generic Solaris Servers

Functional Overview

OSOL, OSOL64, and SOL10 are general server appliances. They can be branched to make new server appliances: singletons or server classes.

Each includes a reasonably complete installation of its OS, including the GCC compiler if available. This allows installing and building software on the branched appliances.

The generic server appliances are designed to be used in two ways:

• As a customized server, by branching the base class to form singleton and modifying its class volume appropriately
• As a template for building other server appliances, by using it as a base to create new application-specific or global catalog classes.

Here 'server' means virtual server. Virtual servers are similar to appliances in all aspects except intent (virtual servers are made to be logged into for the installation of additional software) and volume size (much bigger than appliance's volumes).

Boundary

Resources

OpenSolaris Servers

Solaris 10 Servers

Terminials

Notes:

• One use of the net output is to connect it to the Subnet Output Gateway to download software to be installed on the server. Once you are finish installing, you can disconnect the gateway (or make it standby).

If you branch one of the server appliances to create your custom appliances, you may want to remove the unnecessary interfaces.

Volumes

Servers have only a boot volume (instantiable class volume). There are no placeholder volumes (although when you branch this class to create a customized server, you can add a placeholder volume).

Notes

The OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 servers have zpool_import installed as a legacy service. On stop, this service executes zpool export poolname on all ZFS pools which do not include a bootable data set. On start, this service executes zpool import -a.

The zpool_import service leaves ZFS pools in an exported (portable) state when an appliance is stopped. This facilitates moving and copying pools from one application to another as well as modifying pools using the standard 3t shell vol commands, for example, vol resize, vol copy, and so on.

To manage ZFS pools manually, disable this service.

OpenSolaris appliances use zpool version 10 and zfs version 2.

Solaris 10 appliances use zpool version 4 and zfs version 1. To use zfs pools with these appliances, create them from raw volumes rather than through the CLI vol create command. The CLI vol create operation creates the root zfs data set using zfs version 2 which is not backwards compatible.

Open source and 3rd party software used inside of the appliance

OSOL and OSOL64 uses the following 3rd party/open source packages in addition to any open source and 3rd party packages included as part of their base install of OpenSolaris build 2008.11.