HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.00 Release Notes

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update, and delete containers. You can also use the tool to assign the following items
to a container:
 storage access
 management roles
 IP addresses
 file system, networking, and IPC, and other isolation policies
o Per container init processing - defines startup and shutdown activities per container.
o Status reporting provides details on the various containers deployed on a system,
including resource utilization and state.
• Import and export a container
o Copy a container from one system to another.
o Pre-configure a container on multiple-systems for Serviceguard to enable fast auto-
restart upon failure.
o Support workload balancing of multiple containers across systems
• Multiple container types
o System Containers - Provides many of the user space capabilities of a virtual
machine guest.
o Workload Containers – Provides a lightweight application hosting environment.
o HP 9000 Containers – Provides a PA-RISC emulation environment to support
consolidation of PA-RISC based HP-UX workloads to Integrity servers. For more
information, refer to
http://www.hp.com/go/hp9000-containers.
• High availability through Serviceguard support, including a reference implementation for
using a container as a Serviceguard package.
• Included with HP-UX 11i v3
o The software license for HP-UX Containers (including PRM) is included with all HP-UX
11i v3 Operating Environments.
1.3 New HP-UX Containers features in A.03.00
HP-UX Containers A.03.00 offers the following new features:
• System Container type - Provides many of the user space capabilities of a virtual machine
guest without the associated management and performance overhead. Each system container
supports:
o A unique host, node, and domain name
o Local users and groups
o Local NIS or LDAP domain
o Local password policies
o Local file system view (chroot with private or shared filesystem)
o Local system services such as inetd, init, sshd, syslogd, pwgrd, utmpd, cron,
swagentd, rpcbind and NFS daemons.
o Private IPC namespace
o Local NFS client and AutoFS support
o User auditing
• Force-to-Wire networking – allows you to specify network traffic between containers on the
same server to be routed through the external network. Force-to-Wire can be used to
facilitate network monitoring or security policy requiring physical network traversal.