I highly recommend upgrading to a current release, either solaris 10 update 9 or solaris 11 express. A manual hba reset or link reset using luxadm or fcadm is required by emerson. Using this solution, the downtime can go between 10 to 30 minutes of service. Then yes, youre running an old solaris express development release. How to upgrade solaris 10 update 11 by using live upgrade.
Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. Run the metastat command on a mirror to see the state of each submirror. The output of metastat p might show hot spares being used. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. You can use patch check advanced to make the search for patches. In the beginning, id run format analyze on all those disks and then use. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. If your disk indeed has failed, this article will show you how to replace a failed svm disk. In this example, two disks, c1t0d0 and c1t1d0, are mirrored to each other using solaris volume manager. Not that failed disk is under a mirrored configuration. Check if a file system is readonly by attempting to create a file. Solaris 10 mirror repartition posted on january 27, 2015 by sandeep shenoy i ran into a problem may times, where in customer wants to resize the root partition due to not enough free space to allow os cluster patch installation. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties. How to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu patchsets, recommended os patchsets for oracle solaris and oracle solaris update patch bundles. It is unwise to use the output of the metastat p command to create a md. After i apply a label on the powerpath devices, i create a new solaris volume manager metadevice with metainit. Then set up the current booted environment so that it can use solaris volume manager. Oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade unix my first.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Here is the correct way to split a solaris volume manager mirror prior to. Following boyds presentation on liveupgrade at msosug, i used liveupgrade to upgrade a scratch machine to solaris 10, update 4. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. This information should be written down, not recorded on the system, which may not be available in the event of a disk failure.
Then you need to break the svm and edit the vfstab. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. 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. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. Hello friends, i need to test some of the solaris 10 concepts and veritas volume manager. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks mirrored with svm.
How to upgrade solaris 10 update 11 by using live upgrade kamis, juli 28, 2016 0 komentar this is the step how to upgrade os solaris 10 update 11. The solaris image packaging system enables you to keep the solaris software and your own packages onpremise, and share it to the other systems. Perl script for checking the output of metastat in solaris. Please avoid the steps for zones, if you dont have zone in your server.
Oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade unix my first love. Home solaris 10 11 volume manager how to solaris svm metaset. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. For example, if you were to patch a solaris 10 305 system with the latest recommended patch cluster, many of the patches relate to functionality introduced after solaris 10 305, and therefore, patches with the new functionality would fail to install. Let us grab the output of metastat to understand metadevice placement. How to patch a live system mirrored with svm blogo thnet. Its a good idea to run this once in awhile to make sure that. As far as i know patches were never made available for that. Any time you update your solaris volume manager configuration, or make other. Nagios plugin to check solaris 10 patch status with pca.
You can now use the metastat command to verify that the striped metadevice was removed. Very often, under solaris 9, i have seen svm suddenly flag some or half of our disks as bad specially often after something disruptive has happened to the system like a disk got replaced, power outage, or a new disk array attached. This may have originally been an acceptable limitation, but as disk sizes increased, the restriction became unmanageable. I was excited at first to see the update manager in solaris 10, but became quckly discouraged after several lockups. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes, state database replicas, or hot spare pools node. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. I want to shrink my logs partition so that i can increase the size of my exporthome partition.
This is a good spot to mention the metastat command. Chapter 24 troubleshooting solaris volume manager solaris. When doing the patch cluster on solaris 10, add the t switch to show older patch codes. Create nf file under etc patch dir, if it is not available on system. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. This command will show you the current status of all of your meta devices, like the mirror itself, and all of the disks in the mirror. One path comes from c3 and the other one comes from c4. Creating a svm metadevice and an ufs filesystem setaoffice. Hi all, is it possible to resize partitions in solaris 10.
When solaris 9 gets released, the solstice disksuite name will change to solaris volume manager svm and it will be bundled in with solaris 9. In older versions of solaris 10, the etchosts file was the definitive data store for. Soft partitioning allows a disk to be subdivided into many partitions which are controlled and maintained by. Ordinarily you will be able to just bring your current copy of solaris up to speed or create an alternate boot environment and bring that up to speed with the opttsbinpca command see live upgrade quickstart for more info on this. A limitation existed in that a disk can only have 8 partitions, thus limiting the number of metadevices to 8 per disk. First you need to do is, cek what the configuration of the filesystem. This task is performed the server which is having two zones in it. This document provides stepbystep instructions to install the solaris patch set 4.
Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. Run an explorer and generate a cluster patch, based on tools. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Solaris 10 root fs almost full but cant find out why. Im not that familiar with it, but metastat output gives needs maintenance message on 2 of the mirrors. Live upgrade sun solaris 10 u3 to oracle solaris 10 u10. To create volumes or other solaris volume manager devices within a disk set, use one of the following methods.
How to replace a failing svm disk solaris commands. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks. Choose action create, then follow the instructions in the wizard. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network. We can use the summary flag to metastat sorry, solaris 10 only to show us the summary of what weve just configured. Below are the steps for lucreate and luupgrade in mirrored svm environment in solaris here i am patching the solaris 10 server with svm mirror setuup envirinment.
Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. How to replace failed root disk under oracle solaris svm. Solaris 10 mirror repartition solaris specialists blog. Solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Maintaining a copy of the solaris distribution is a good way to ensure all your systems have access to updates and software packages that are not yet installed. How to kill user session through database and unix. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Example, you need to upgrade from oracle solaris 10 update 4 to. How to check the status of mirrors and submirrors solaris.
Below are the df and metastat p output before lucreate and patching. Solaris kernel patching procedure we need to prepare patch document procedure with backout plan, and needs to get the approval b. The below steps shows ho to create new boot eenvironment,upgrade the solaris to new release, patch the solaris kernel and update the netbackup client. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. The task for using the commandline to mirror root on an x86 system is different from the task used for a sparc system when mirroring root, it is essential that you record the secondary root slice name to reboot the system if the primary submirror fails. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. These patches are preapplied into the solaris update image. How to replace failed root disk under oracle solaris svm at this post, you will find some of the examples of replacing failed disk under solaris volume manager. Install the bootblock in the root mirror disk c1t1d0, to make sure it is bootable. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom.
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