HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.01.004 Release Notes (5992-5696, September 2012)

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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.
o Create a new container by copying an existing container with the export and
import operations. You can create multiple new containers of the same type as the
original container on the same or on different 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, see
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.
• Support for multiple HP 9000 containers on the same system when using the HP 9000
Containers product version A.03.0x. The hp9000cl container type supports the classic
HP 9000 container environment. The hp9000sys container type lets you deploy multiple
HP 9000 container instances on the same system.
• Enhancements for Container Manager, formerly SRP Manager, to support configuration of
multiple IP addresses for a container.
• Support to update the HP-UX operating system in an HP-UX Containers enabled system to a
newer version using the update-ux(1M) command. The update-ux command was not
supported with HP-UX Containers A.03.00.x.