HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.01 Release Notes

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 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 quick
transition and consolidation of PA-RISC based HP-UX workloads on HP Integrity
servers. For more information, refer to
http://www.hp.com/go/hp9000-containers.
• 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
• High availability through Serviceguard support, including a reference implementation for
using a container as a Serviceguard package.
• Force-to-Wire networking that 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.
• 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 HP 9000 Containers product
HP 9000 Containers provides a binary emulation environment for HP-UX PA-RISC workloads. The HP
9000 Containers product is installed separately from the HP-UX Containers (SRP) product. Once the
HP-UX Containers (SRP) and HP 9000 Containers products are both installed, you can use the
srp(1M)command to create and manage HP 9000 containers. Refer to the HP 9000 Containers
documentation (
http://www.hp.com/go/hp9000-containers) for product version requirements, and
details on how to configure and manage an HP 9000 container.
NOTE: HP 9000 Containers version A.01.0x requires HP-UX SRP version A.02.02. HP 9000
Containers version A.03.0x requires HP-UX Containers version A.03.01 or later.