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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849688260
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexandre Borges Alexandre Borges
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IPS and Boot Environments 2. ZFS FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking 4. Zones 5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services 6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server 7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges 8. Administering and Monitoring Processes 9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance Index

Creating, administering, and using a virtual network in a zone

I love this recipe because here, we are going to use the main feature of zones in Oracle Solaris 11 virtual networks. Concisely, we are going to create and configure the following scenario:

  • zone1 | vnic1 (192.168.1.51) | vswitch1 (etherstub) | net0 (192.168.1.144)
  • zone2 | vnic2 (192.168.1.52) | vswitch1 (etherstub) | net0 (192.168.1.144)

Each zone connects to its respective virtual network interface (VNIC), and both VNICs go to the same etherstub (a kind of a virtual switch). Because of this, etherstub requires a virtual interface (vnic0). Finally, etherstub connects to a real interface (net0). The zonepath property for each zone and other properties are as follows:

  • zonepath zone1: /myzones/zone1
  • zonepath zone2: /myzones/zone2
  • IP type: exclusive-IP

Getting ready

This recipe requires a virtual machine (VirtualBox or VMware) that runs Oracle Solaris 11, with 4 GB (minimum) or 8 GB RAM (recommended), an extra disk with 80 GB, and a processor...

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