I want to patch one side of the mirror and keep intact another side safe in case of roll back is required. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Though i have enough space in root filesystem of both zones, everytime i run installcluster, it fails with complaining less space but in alternate be. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch.
Mar 18, 2015 solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. In otherwords, if the systems root filesystem is zfs,then you have to use liveupgrade and no other way to do it. We have performed patching for solaris os under zfs with zones using live. Sep 17, 2015 regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased.
Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. Zfs datasets for which snapshot and clone will be created for be are. Dec 05, 2009 patching on the local solaris target machine with direct access to the internet is the most straight forward process and this document will describe this scenario. That being said, solaris packages are usually locked into a particular set of revisions via a meta package called entire. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot.
If in automatic configuration mode, use netcfg network virtualization adds many new capabilities and continuing to overload ifconfig is the wrong management approach limited virtualization. Mar 25, 2016 solaris 10 x86 kernel patching with vxvm mohamed musthaq. Solaris patching issue with live upgrade the unix and linux. With ubuntu seriously committed to including zfs and boot environment tooling zsys in the upcoming lts release, will we see improved grub support for zfs in general.
For releases prior to solaris 10 1009, this feature is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 or later revision sparc and 11925566 or later revision x86. I want to install solaris10 recommended patch cluster on it. Reading this blog may confuse you or may increase understanding of unix linux operating system and its component. Script for finding the process using a specific port in solaris solaris 10 zones troubleshooting. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method the. In solaris 11 it is mandatory that your boot volume is zfs.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Solaris 10 uses varsadmpkg and varsadmpatch to track package and patch versions. This is having zfs filesystem and 10 sparseroot zones are there. Live upgarde for solaris, multibos for aix, yum for linux. Zfs for the boot environment requires solaris 10u6 or newer. I am in process of applying solaris recommended patch cluster via live upgrade. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Here i am sharing the experience my experience with.
We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Patching on zfs filesystem the unix and linux forums. I work upstream from the sysnet and services groups who produce most of suns patch automation tools, so i and my team mostly patch from first principles using the basic solaris patch utilities, patchadd and patchrm my team does have some experience of working with some of the. Zfs was made available to solaris 10 in update 4 and you could boot from it in update 6 think service packs. Getting started with solaris 10 must to know keywords. I have worked on many volume manages like svmsolaris volume manager,vxvm veritas volume manager and lvm logical volume manager but zfs is onestep ahead compare to other volume. Boot process sparc n x86 solaris 11 personal tutor.
I have solaris10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones. Note creating boot environments with live upgrade is new in the solaris 10 1008 release. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. While we havent gotten many inches the wind is causing drifting and white out conditions. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the sysadmin december 2009. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference.
Patching on the local solaris target machine with direct access to the internet is the most straight forward process and this document will describe this scenario. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method. How to offline online detach replace device in a storage pool. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. The operating system will be oracle solaris 10 sunos 5. Alternatives to solaris containers and zfs for linux on system z. Live upgrade and zfs overview oracle solaris 10 811. How to set inactivity timeouts for logins and shells in solaris. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Aug 23, 2017 parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime.
It might help you to land on real job or may fire your from the real job. Solaris 11 administration vs solaris 10 administration. Oct 24, 2019 zfs has a cache algorithm which named arc adaptive replacement cache. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the. A process is a program running or being executed on the computer. To prevent high memory usage, you would like to limit the zfs arc to xx gb, which makes sense to me so you always have some ram free for applications, please follow this documentation. Specifically, will canonical be patching grub for full zfs compatibility and will upstream accept the patches. Basic administration you can also use these components or products. Zfs is a 128bit file system, so it can address 18 billion billion times more data than the 64bit systems zfs is implemented as opensource filesystem, licensed under the common development and distribution license cddl. Solaris 10 x86 kernel patching with vxvm mohamed musthaq. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be.
Now we will start our installation of cpu patch cluster activity patching activity. I have solaris 10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones. Mounting our minimal shared sw area mounting a linux nfs share on solaris. Students will have access to both sparc and x86based solaris servers to perform their labs. The following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11. This is having zfs filesystem and 10 sparse root zones are there. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10.
How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. If you are using zfs snapshots as a way to rollback from patches, try checking the contents of varsadmpatch before patching, post patching, and post rollback if you are not already using the feature, investigate alternate boot environments for solaris especially. Oracle solaris 10 811 oracle solaris 11 oracle solaris 11 benefits. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. Please feel free to use it test it and see if it works. So zfs knowledge is must for all of the solaris administrator who is going to work on solaris 11. Solaris 10 kernel patching q2 2018 linuxtab a man page. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone. In general the arc allocates as much memory as it is available. Hidden features of solarisopensolaris server fault. First of all, let me say that my personnel experience of suns patch automation tools is limited. Also, solaris zones are pretty useful for application isolation.
Jan 19, 2016 for the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. We had a great turnout for our solaris 10 patching with live upgrade handsonlab at openworld a few weeks back. To see the available versions, use the following command. I want to install solaris 10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with procedure. Though i have enough space in root filesystem of both zones, everytime i run installcluster. Also, solaris live upgrade works the same as in previous releases when you use zfs. The first step in this process is to ensure that solaris 10 operating system is installed, followed by the installation of any optional solaris 10 contributed software. Jul 24, 20 oracle took a brave decision by making zfs as default root filesystem in solaris 11 onwards. In case of a zfs root, we need not have a separate partition. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. We are at the start of our next round of patching and have come across a small issue with solaris 10. Script for finding the process using a specific port in solaris.
Solaris filesystem configuration ufs, zfs, disk partitioning, raid. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference and i hope it is useful. Both sparcbased and x86based versions of solaris are covered in this course. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Use this procedure when you need to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots in at least the solaris 10 509 release. Reading this blog may confuse you or may increase understanding of unixlinux operating system and its component. I want to install solaris10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with procedure. With live upgrade, a feature of oracle solaris, you can migrate your ufs file systems to a zfs root pool and create zfs root file systems from an existing zfs root pool.
Mar 17, 2015 solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. For you information,from solaris 11 onward, zfs will be the default root filesystem. The lab was a selfguided tour through the basics of using live upgrade combined with zfs root to seriously speed up the system maintenance process. Upon the next reboot you get a patched os environment. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Note creating boot environments with live upgrade is new in the solaris 10 10 08 release. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Differences between solaris 11 and solaris 10 oracle. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots on zfs solaris 10 10 08 use this procedure when you need to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots on zfs. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. In the steps that follow, zfs2be, is the example name of the boot environment that is upgraded or patched. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots at least solaris 10 509 use this procedure when you need to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots in at least the solaris 10 509 release.
First alternative solaris 10 zfs migration from ufs example. Solaris containers also known as zones officially renamed to oracle solaris zones1 command line tools to manage zones graphical tool oracle enterprise manager ops center for managing zones dynamically assign resources to a zone or group of zones can run solaris 8, 9, 10 and some linux in a zone. Zfs has a cache algorithm which named arc adaptive replacement cache. If you are using zfs snapshots as a way to rollback from patches, try checking the contents of varsadmpatch before patching, post patching, and post rollback. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone roots on zfs solaris 10 1008. Solaris 11 administration vs solaris 10 administration ars. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. These updates can either be a system upgrade or the application of patches. How to install a zfs boot block in solaris the geek diary. Basic linux interview questions how to create and check lu live upgrade boot env. Solaris manual patching with vxvm root disk patching procedure for solaris box with veritas root disk, this procedure is tested in veritas version 5. If you discover an issue with a patch, you can make the old snapshot bootable, reboot and youve backed out your changes.
Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Check latest patch on my oracle support website parallel patching is really helpful as. Jan 22, 2008 it wont be a solaris 10 update to change the packaging architecture midstream in solaris 10 would be too disruptive so think of it more as solaris 11 although that may not be the actual name. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration.
On the day of writing, the newest version of solaris 10 is u11 1 and cluster for solaris 10 is 3. Mar 18, 2014 now we will start our installation of cpu patch cluster activity patching activity. If a solaris system fails to boot with messages similar to the following are encountered, the system will need to be booted from alternate oracle solaris media. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with.
The first couple of opensolaris releases were primarily designed for use by developers who want to contribute to opensolaris. If in manual configuration mode use new ipadm and dladm commands. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. It is normally not possible to manually install a package from a newer release of solaris 11. It exists several products in internet that are able to managed solaris server but we support only the patching methods listed at. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. This is a brief example of migrating an existing ufsbased solaris 10 system to. So if you have 3 zones and it takes 1 minute to apply a patch on global zone then it will take another 1 minute each to apply on other 3 zones. Use this procedure when you need to upgrade or patch a zfs root. Below is a simple live upgrade be creation and patching example. Spacewalk is a linux only system management system. Zfs zettabyte filesystem is a file system designed by sun microsystems for the solaris operating system. Alternatives to solaris containers and zfs for linux on.
Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Oracle took a brave decision by making zfs as default root filesystem in solaris 11 onwards. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Before kick starting the solaris study lets be aware of few important keywords and facts about the solaris os. Warning content posted here are gained through the real world experience or some may come from training or any other internet sources.