Solaris 10 and 11 Installation, Management and Monitoring made easy. Central Management Server with support for automated deployment of LDoms and Zones

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Virtual Datacenter Management
using the
Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework (VDCF)
Marcel Hofstetter
hofstetter@jomasoft.ch
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch
CEO / Enterprise Consultant
JomaSoft GmbH
Oracle ACE „Solaris“

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About JomaSoft
Engineering company founded July 2000
specialized in Solaris, software
development/integration and consulting
Product VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework)
Installation, Management, Monitoring, Security
and DR on Solaris 10/11, Virtualize using LDoms
and Solaris Zonen
VDCF is used in Production since 2006

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VDCF – Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework
Management Tool for BareMetal, LDoms and Zones
Installation, Operation, Migration, Monitoring,
Failover and Security
Supports Solaris 10 + 11 on SPARC/x86
In productive use since 2006
Centrally installed using the lightweight, serverless
database SQLite
Dynamic Virtualization
Live / Cold Migration and Failover
Resource Configuration and Monitoring
Agility for your Enterprise Private Cloud

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VDCF - Goals
Central view and control of the virtual data center
Standardization: uniform System configuration
As easy as possible for the System administrator
Consistent interfaces for admins (Solaris 10 and 11)
Avoid mistakes: Fully automated Installation & Migration
Flexible: Hardware can be mixed, VDCF adapts the configuration
when migrating
Reduce Complexity: Layer above Solaris / Hide the details
„Best Practices“ are integrated ongonig into the product
Cheap and easy solution for failover and DR

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Datacenter Architecture

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Dynamic Virtualization

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Solaris Versions

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VDCF - Components

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VDCF Base - Features
CLI and Web Dashboard
Builds
Create and manage your Solaris Installation Environments
Based on Solaris JumpStart/Flash Archives and AI / Unified Archives
Node
System/Device/Disk Discovery
Install Nodes using Solaris WANBOOT & Flash Archives or AI
Configure Solaris Global Zone
DNS, NTP, SMF Services, ROUTES
System Customization / Basic Software Installations
Packages, Commands, Scripts, File-Copy
Operations
Boot / Reboot / Shutdown

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VDCF LDom - Features
Configuration
Define Resource Limits (RAM, CPU, MAU)
Disk and Network Interface Management
(adddisk, addnet, remnet, remdisk)
Configure Guest Domains
DNS, NTP, SMF Services, ROUTES
System Customization / Basic Software Installations
Packages, Commands, Scripts, File-Copy
Import existing LDoms
Operation
Install / Remove Guest Domains
Boot / Reboot / Shutdown
Migrate Guest Domains

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VDCF vServer - Features
Configuration
Dataset Management (Volumes) - SVM,ZFS,Veritas
Filesystem and Network Interface Management
(addfs, addnet, growfs, remnet, remfs, clonefs)
Configure Solaris Zone
DNS, SMF Services, ROUTES
System Customization / Basic Software Installations
Packages, Commands, Scripts, File-Copy
Import existing Zones
Operation
Install/Uninstall vServer
Boot / Reboot / Shutdown
Migrate one or multiple vServers

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VDCF – Enterprise Features
Datasets & Disks
Veritas Dataset & Filesystem Management
Cluster Support
Integrates vServers and LDoms into Oracle Solaris Cluster for Failover
Resource Management
Configure / limit Resource Usage of vServers
Monitoring
Hardware Monitoring and Alarming based on System Controller
Resource Monitoring (CPU/RAM Usage)
HA – Automated vServer Failover
OS Monitoring (Filesystem, Dataset, SMF Services, SWAP, Disk Paths)
Security Compliance and Hardening

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VDCF – High Availability
Different levels of High Availability / Failover
Manual Failover
Administrator using VDCF vserver/gdom commands
HA – Automated Failover
VDCF hamon automatically switches vServers if a Node fails
Cluster Support
vServer/LDoms are integrated into Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration
Monitoring and Failover is managed by the Cluster Software

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VDCF – High Availability

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VDCF Node / Solaris
VDCF – Realtime data Collection
SAN LUNs
VDCF DB
Repository
Cronjob: repos_update
Visible Disk/LUNS
patchadm
vpkgadm
pkgs
patches
rcmon zonestat (VDCF)
zones
Object states
Resource usage
Installed Patches
Installed Packages
diskadm
Hardware States hwmon
ZPOOL, SMF, SWAP,... osmon

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VDCF – OS Monitoring

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VDCF - Usage sample (1/3)
Node Install
node -c enable_install name=computeA build=s11_3_24
node -c install name=computeA
Guest Domain Definition
gdom -c create name=mydom cores=2 ram=8g cdom=myT81
vServer Operations
vserver -c addfs name=server1 mountpoint=/export
dataset=server1_data type=data size=2g
vserver -c commit name=server1 exec
vServer Migrate
vserver -c migrate name=server1 node=computeB shutdown

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VDCF - Usage sample (2/3)
Where can I migrate my vServer (Zone) to?
-bash-4.1$ vserver -c show name=v0137 candidates
vServer Node cPool Patch-Level Comment
v0137 g0058 default 3.19.0.5.0 (U3.SRU19) Demo Zone1
Potential Nodes is candidate Disk access Net access Packages
g0054 (U3.SRU20) YES [upgrade] ok ok nok
g0081 (U3.SRU24) YES [upgrade] ok ok nok
s0024 (U3.SRU19) YES ok ok ok

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VDCF - Usage sample (3/3)
Is my environment consistent?
-bash-4.1$ cpool -c check name=default
ERROR: ComputePool default (Default ComputePool) is not consistent:
Disks not registered on Node <g0043>:
6001438012599B620001100001D30000
6001438012599B62000110000F040000
Systems with identical Package-Level / Kernel: 3.19.0.5.0 (U3.SRU19)
Nodes: g0058 s0024
Systems with identical Package-Level / Kernel: 3.20.0.5.0 (U3.SRU20)
Nodes: g0054
Systems with identical Package-Level / Kernel: 3.24.0.4.0 (U3.SRU24)
Nodes: g0055 g0081 g0043
Network type BACKUP missing for
Nodes: g0043

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VDCF - main benefits
Simplicity
Deploy and manage Virtual Solaris Environments without a deep Solaris
knowledge using only a handful of intuitive VDCF commands
Standardization
Zones and LDoms are deployed using supported Solaris technologies,
managed in a standard way and able to be deployed and available for
use in minutes rather than hours.
Availability / Recovery
VDCF allows manual or automatic control of server migration or fail-
over leading to improved options in availability, disaster recovery and
performance.

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Questions?
Product white papers and documentation online
https://www.jomasoft.com/vdcf/#js-docu
Try using the “Free Edition”
https://www.jomasoft.com/downloads

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VDCF
Ending Slide
Marcel Hofstetter
hofstetter@jomasoft.ch
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch
CEO / Enterprise Consultant
JomaSoft GmbH
Oracle ACE „Solaris“