"How to Manage Systems with ZFS in Solaris Containers," one of the Solaris 10 How To Guide series (login or registration required), is intended to show a new user the capabilities of ZFS when coupled with Solaris Containers. It describes the assignment of a ZFS file system to a zone, and some of the ZFS administrative tasks possible in such a configuration.

Once a zone has been created and a ZFS file system has been allocated to it, the administrator for that (non-global) zone can create file systems, take snapshots, create clones, and perform all the other functions of an administrator within that zone. Yet the global zone, and any other zones, are fully isolated from whatever happens in that zone.

The contents of this guide include:

ZFS and Containers: An Example -- This section is a step-by-step guide that shows how to perform certain ZFS file system tasks inside of Solaris Containers such as taking snapshots and managing data compression. It does this by going through the following steps:

• Creating a zpool
• Creating a Zone
• Allocating a ZFS File System to a Zone
• Creating New File Systems
• Applying Quota to the File Systems
• Changing the Mountpoint of a File System
• Setting the Compression Property
• Taking a Snapshot

After reading this guide, the user will have an understanding of how to delegate a ZFS file system to a container and to manage it from within the container. The integration of Solaris Containers and Solaris ZFS is just another way that the Solaris 10 OS is providing cost benefits to customers by allowing them to safely consolidate applications and more easily manage the data those applications use.

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