Samba versus NFS on Solaris Server.

[benoit-schmid]

Hello,

From what I have read Oracle does not recommends to access from a non global zone the NFS server in its global zone.

Now I have a independent NFS Solaris server.

Samba sharing is integrated with zfs.

It seems to be ok for sap servers:

https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-16033

As Samba is not as kernel dependent as NFS, the server can be in a non global zone

and I would not need this independent NFS server.

I could use my DEV or PRD Sap system has the samba server.

If you know the pros and cons of using samba versus nfs with Sap servers in solaris zones,

could you please provide your feedback?

If you use samba with zfs Solaris servers in zone,

could you tell us the pros and cons of doing so ?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> If you know the pros and cons of using samba versus nfs with Sap servers in solaris zones,

> could you please provide your feedback?

Due to that exact problem we are using an external NFS server for all our systems. In the end it turns out the "best" solution for us since we don't have to fiddle and configure each landscape with NFS separately but we just mount the filesystems from the servers.

Concerning samba/CIFS - that's of course also an alternative and should working flawlessly.

Markus

[benoit-schmid · Accepted solution]

Hello Markus,

Could you also provide the property of your NFS export?

sapinst could not run chown on /usr/sap/trans subdirs.

Therefore I had to set them manualy.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> Could you also provide the property of your NFS export?

/usr/sbin/share -F  nfs -o aclok,anon=0,sec=none,rw,sec=sys,rw,root=xxxxxxx -d "" "/export/home"  -

> sapinst could not run chown on /usr/sap/trans subdirs.

> Therefore I had to set them manualy.

I would install without the mount and mount it after the installation and set up TMS.

Markus

[benoit-schmid · Accepted solution]

> I would install without the mount and mount it after the installation and set up TMS.

You would proceed like that only for the first install (DEV) or for all the installs?

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

I would install all the instances with a "local" /usr/sap/trans, then after the installation mount it and copy the files over and set up TMS.

Markus

[benoit-schmid · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It would have been nice to have an example of samba Solaris config.

But it seems to be uncommon.

Therefore I close the thread.

Thanks for your answers Markus.