is it possible to add physical hardware to a zone

UNIX Solaris
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Dear All,

is it possible to add physical hardware to a zone like,

cdrom, processor book, scsi controller ?, r else any disk....

any thing that will b a physical hardware!!

is it possible.... if possible please tel me the steps while

Thanks

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can the zone be down during the operation?

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You can add access to certain devices to the zone and set ip-type: exclusive and add network interfaces. You should really describe your needs in more detail.

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Thanks DukeNuke2 and Luka

As its in production we need to take downtime, if its not possible without down.

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i would like to be clear on this. you are attempting to mount a full disk say "/dev/dsk/c0t0d0" to a mount point which should be seen by a non-global zone?

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Yes Pupp,

and i think thats only possible through the global zone :confused:.

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You can add a disk to the physical server, possibly hot-plugging it depending on the hardware. You can do whatever you want with this disk on the global zone like formatting and laying out file systems. You can make the new file systems available to the non-global zone without any downtime on it.

For security reasons, you can't do that from the non-global zone as that would break the zones isolation requirement.

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Thanks Jlliagre