HOWTO: Install SAP Sybase ASE 15.x and Linux Containers (LXC) – Ubuntu Server 13.04

REQUIREMENTS:

Host OS:

• Ubuntu Server 13.04 x86-64 (64bit)
• At least 4GB RAM
• 300GB available disk space

Sybase Patches:

• If you’re going to run 32bit SQL Anywhere (or an embedded RSSD with Replication Server), you need to apply a SQL Anywhere patch: http://search.sybase.com/kbx/changerequests?bug_id=694479

Install LXC and the bridge-utils to support a network bridge:

Create the network bridge br0:

Edit interfaces:
replace:

with:

Restart networking:

Create lxc-default-sybase Apparmor profile:

Edit lxc-default-sybase:
replace:

with:

replace/add only if using you’re using LXC version LOWER than 0.7.5-3ubuntu60 – see LXC bug 1021411:

deny @{PROC}/sys/kernel/** wklx,

with:

deny @{PROC}/sys/kernel/(^shm)** wklx,

Update the kernel with the new lxc-default-sybase profile

Replace /etc/lxc/lxc.conf with:

Assuming that volume group VG02 exists, let’s create the container with the name of “sybase”, and a logical volume of 100G using the xfs file system:

Before we start the ‘sybase’ container, we need to update the container configuration to use the lxc-container-default-sybase container:

Edit config:
replace:

with:

We’re ready to start the container in console mode (to start it as a daemon add -d):

The default login credentials are ubuntu / ubuntu

Let’s switch to root so we can install the packages to support Sybase ASE 15.7:

Enable up to 512MB of shared memory:

Install the packages (nmon is a great os monitoring tool but if you don’t want it, don’t include it):

If you want to install PPA repositories:

We need to set up the locale:

Copy the sybase software to your new Linux Container and extract it into a temporary directory.

Because Ubuntu seems to think that gzip can uncompress files compressed with the ‘compress’ command (it really can’t btw), you need to alias the uncompress with /usr/bin/uncompress.real:

From here, you would install and configure Sybase ASE 15.x as you normally would.

Determine ip address for eth0:

In my case, the eth0 ip address is 192.168.0.115. You will either want to reserve this address with your DHCP server or setup a static ip in /etc/interfaces.

Assuming we want to keep the 192.168.0.115 address for this container, we need to modify the /etc/hosts file:
Replace:

with:

http://froebe.net/blog/2013/01/12/howto-install-sap-sybase-ase-15-x-and-linux-containers-lxc-ubuntu-server-12-10/