Working with Solaris 10 zones

 

This topic describes how to install WebSphere MQ into a Solaris 10 zone.

Solaris 10 introduces the concept of zones to the operating system. The main file system is known as the global zone. Within this zone, we can create one or more additional non-global zones. A zone that has its own self-contained file system (one that is not shared with that of the global zone) is known as a whole root non-global zone. A zone that shares part of its file system with the global zone is known as a sparse root non-global zone.

For more information on configuring zones on your system, see Sun's System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones for your release of Solaris.

On Solaris 10, WebSphere MQ can be installed into the system's global zone, or into a whole root non-global zone. We cannot install WebSphere MQ into a sparse root non-global zone.

WebSphere MQ is accessible only from the zone you installed it in. If you install WebSphere MQ into the global zone, we cannot access it from any non-global zones configured on the system.

However, the IBM GSKit provided with WebSphere MQ will be installed into all non-global zones configured on the system if you install it into the global zone. If you do not want the GSKit to be installed into whole root non-global zones configured on your system, use the option pkgadd -G when installing WebSphere MQ. This option, however, will not stop the GSKit being accessible from sparse root non-global zones that share the /usr directory with the global zone.

To install WebSphere MQ into one or more whole root non-global zones, create the WebSphere MQ environment and perform the steps in the following topics for each zone.

 

Parent topic:

Creating WebSphere MQ file systems


sq10265_