About VCS support for non-global zones

Solaris zones provide an isolated and secure environment for running applications.

VCS provides high availability to applications running in zones by extending the failover capability to zones. The VCS engine, VCS agents, and engine components run in the global zone. For applications running within zones, agents run entry points inside the zones. If a zone faults, VCS fails over the entire service group, which contains the zone, to another node.

VCS supports non-global zones in both secure and non-secure cluster environments. If VCS is running in a secure environment using Symantec Product Authentication Service, communication from non-global zones to global zones is secure.

See the Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide for information on agents are zone-aware and support applications running in non-global zones: