You can start configuration at how to set the number of metadevice or volume names and disk sets. You can use the admclientpatch command to spool additional patches or you can remove patches from the spool area that you no longer need. If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is already installed. Perform this procedure to use sunplex installer to install and configure sun cluster software and patches on all nodes in the cluster in a single operation. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. The kernel modules for solaris volume manager svm, are available from the cdrom. In addition, you can use this procedure to install solstice disksuite software and patches solaris 8 or to configure solaris volume manager mirrored disksets solaris 9. 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. When you add a disk drive to a diskset, solstice disksuite solaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. Among the new features planned for solaris 9, due at the end of the month, is patch manager, an analysis engine that automates the process of locating required security and software patches for a.
I have disksuite installed to mirror root drives and need to install kernel patches. The following applies to core solaris packages and patches. Solaris 9 patches released from november 1, 2011, will have vintageextended access entitlement by default, which means that only customers with an extended support contract for solaris will be able to access them. Patch cluster install script for solaris 9 recommended warning systems with limited disk space should not install patches. Solaris 9 with patch 11492906 and without patch 11223412 notes. Security vulnerability with solaris volume manager svm. The appropriate patches are applied as you create new clients. A security vulnerability in solaris volume manager svm. You can even run solaris 10 guest domains under a solaris 11 control domain and run solaris 8 and solaris 9 branded zones in your solaris 10 guest domains if. Boot solaris 10 from detached root mirrors the unix and. 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. Is disksutie part of solaris 10 or should i used format uitility to add the hard drive and then volumne manager to extend the new hard drive. The solaris 9 release seamlessly supports upgrading existing systems that run solaris disksuite sds to the solaris volume manager without disturbing or changing the configuration. Solaris 9 transitioning to extended support oracle.
A local unprivileged user may be able to panic solaris 9 systems which have solaris volume manager svm devices configured. There are a couple of slices on each disk that i would like to amalgamate together to create one slice metadisk i would like to use solstice disksuite as i have a bit of experience with the gui etc, but after much searching around on the cds. Go to mirroring the root disk or creating disk sets in a cluster to continue to configure solstice disksuite software. Additionally, the soft partitions feature was added to the base disksuite product via a product patch. Solaris live upgrade support use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on solaris 9 and 10 computers. The mirroring procedure i created uses installboot to ensure theres a bootblk on both disks of an sds mirror. Installation of solaris 8 0202 any cluster required. For more information, see the solaris volume manager administration guide at. Once you uncompress the tar file, therell be a readme, which explains minimum patch levels, and which version of the branded zones package you need to install.
Upgrading disksuite soft partitions are only available on disksuite v4. Confirm if the server boots from the unencapsulated svm root mirror disk. In other words, although you may be running disksuite v4. Learn more about live patching for the solaris 9 operating system from the expert community at experts exchange. Solaris recommended patch clusters do not upgrade solaris to the next minor. Patches differ by solaris version and architecture.
In addition, you can use this procedure to install solstice disksuite software and patches solaris 8 or to configure solaris volume manager mirrored disk sets solaris 9. This part has bare minimal support for fc connectivity. Upgrading from solaris 9 releases with recommended patch cluster partially succeeds 6202868 45. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive on the node. After that, therell be no new solaris 8 or solaris 9 patches created. I recently ran some patching on a solaris 10 server and as per normal procedure i detached the lvm root disk mirrors first to preserve the prepatching copy of the os. Video disksuite unmirror unencapsulating procedure 05. Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. Unix my first love check veritas volume manager version. The solaris 9 os provides a wide range of administration tools that assist both user and system administration tasks. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Bigfix patch patch for solaris users guide 1 overview 9. Weve flushed the queues of any fixes which were still inflight from that time and released the final set of solaris 8 and 9 patches have been released to mos.
I have disksuite working great, mirroring all slices. It provides command line tools and guis for managing users, resources, and disk storage. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. Solstice disksuite, ipmp, first support for ipv6 and ipsec manual keying only, mdb. Solaris patch manager offers the most comprehensive patch management features for the solaris os. Compare solaris 8 to solaris 9 disadvantages upgrade.
Solaris live upgrade tutorial liveupgrade what is it. Each marketing release of solaris has its own set of patches. Solstice disk suite from cd 2 of 2 sun vts from comp cd sun rcs software from comp cd sun explorer from sun solve recommended patches from sun solve setting up user accounts configuration of sds to mirror boot disks and makes required filesystems. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris.
How to install solstice disksuite software sun cluster. Its a netra x1 with an ibm and a seagate internal drives both sun 40 gig, but the ibm is about a gig bigger. I want to add an additional disk to a solaris 10 server. Some sites just say metadetach install patch cluster reboot metattach but then other sites indicate to issue metadetach, metaclear, metainit, metaattach. The 2nd part is the complete and current fc support which is distributed as san patches. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Breaking and syncing a svm root mirror solaris troys unix space. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. Use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on solaris 9. So i was goofing around and added a slice with the remaining space about a. If you are using the solaris 9 or solaris 8 401 min releases, you can download and install the latest sfs package san 4.
The adminsuite product ships a small number of required patches for different releases of solaris. So reboot after applying patches, check carefully that. So it makes sense to try and keep servers of the same osarchitecture on the same patch level and define a master host, whose patch level is automatically checked at regular intervals. That is, theres one set of patches for solaris 8, a separate set of patches for solaris 9, and another set of patches for solaris 10. I used the live upgrade tools in the solaris os to successfully apply the latest patch cluster to a machine running the solaris 9 os, without bringing the machine into singleuser mode. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image. For solaris 9 on the 807 release of solaris 10, i need to install version 1. The steps are basically identical for the other releases. The unix and linux forums how to check svm version solaris 9 and 10. Find answers to compare solaris 8 to solaris 9 disadvantages upgrade from the expert community at experts exchange. Live upgrade is a feature of solaris since version 2. Solaris 9 exiting extended support period oracle solaris.
A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software. Patch cluster install script for solaris 9 recommended patch cluster. Patch manager manages patches that are created for the solaris 9 operating environment and compatible releases. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Upgrades of mirrored root file systems are fully and automatically supported. Bigfix patch for solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. Install solstice disksuite with jumpstart oracle community. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold1m is running and configured to manage cdrom devices. Last solaris 8 and 9 patches released oracle solaris blog.
Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. It does not necessarily apply to some applications embedded in solaris, such as staroffice. Which are the packages that are installed in the svm. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. Solaris 9 with patch 11433208 and without patch 11433210 x86 platform. Previous releases of solaris 10 os for x86 release had some problems which are fixed in update1. I installed patch manager but in its read me file i found out that its only for solaris 8 and there is some update manager for solaris 9. As we are a contract customer, we are running a local patch server, and use that as our primary source of patches. How to install and configure sun cluster software sunplex. Limitedtime offer applies to the first charge of a new.
Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. If you installed solaris 9 software, solaris volume manager is already installed. System administration tools whats new in the solaris 9. During the patching, i ran into the unix and linux forums.
Solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. Solaris 8 volume management services are provided by solstice disksuite 4. Ok, so i have a remote system 7 states away thats using sds to manage the two 18 gig disks. Live upgrade is especially useful because sun does not officially support installing os patches to active partitions patching while in single user mode or to a non. Perform this procedure to use sunplex manager to install and configure sun cluster software and patches on all nodes in the cluster in a single operation.
Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. Solaris 9 with patch 199402 or later or patch 11855912 or later, and without patch 12237107 solaris 10 without patch 12625704 note. For sol 9 u4 or with patch 145409, fs size can be up to 16 tb. Hello, for the last couple of months, all of my solaris 9 systems have been reporting no patches required. So it is recommended to use solaris 10u1 if customers intend to use svmtm for root. Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. Solaris live upgrade tutorial liveupgrade mattzone. Solaris 9 patches 11433208 and 11492906 are withdrawn.
Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. You can display installed patches and their properties, add patches to one or more systems concurrently, remove patches, analyze a systems patch requirements, and download patches from the sunsolve online service. Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuite solaris volume manager become superuser on the cluster node. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. Some research indicates a number of steps to follow and some indicate just a few. This root mirroring procedure for solaris volume manager is tested, and is only recommended, with solaris 10 os for x86 update 1 106 release or later. It gives you unified, near realtime visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all solaris endpoints. The first step to setting up mirroring using disksuite is to install the disksuite packages and any necessary patches for systems prior to solaris 9.
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