Solaris 10, zones, and zone private file space best practice

From: sunlist (sun@oryx.cc)
Date: Mon Dec 05 2005 - 18:41:44 EST


I currently have a small 1U system (Sun V210) in a web hosting type situation
running Solaris 10. This system has (2) internal disk, which are raid
1/mirrored using SVM.

On this system I currently have 10 zones configured and these zones are each
individually being used primarily for web sites. These are small sites and the
load is lite. I am not experiencing any performance problems.

My question concerns providing private file system space to individual zones.
Currently, from the global zone, I have a large /export file system. Using
NFS4, I am doing an NFS share, i.e.

/export/zone1-filespace ---> zone1
/export/zone2-filespace ---> zone2
/export/zone3-filespace ---> zone3
etc ......

I only share the file space to the particular zone, and I am also blocking
external ports from the Internet using the included IP Filter software for
security purposes.

In this instance, I do not have any additional external disk (i.e. SAN, JBOD, etc).

Again, currently this is working well for me and I am not currently experiencing
any problems with this set up.

Is this the best way to go about this? There are all kinds of new toys in
Solaris 10, and I to make sure that I am using them correctly as possible.

TIA for any input,

Jerry K
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