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. Mar 20, 2012 i am in the process of moving my current zfs pool from solaris express 11 to openindiana, primarily because i can not get patches etc without a support contract from oracle. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. After patching global zone, nonglobal zone fails to start up. How to use zpool split to split rpool in solaris 11 sparc. If you need to repartition the disk and create a slice 0, see modifying slices or partitions in managing devices in oracle solaris 11. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Jan 22, 2008 first of all, let me say that my personnel experience of suns patch automation tools is limited. Solaris 10 ldom kernel patching using live upgrade. Removing patches in global and nonglobal zones use the solaris patch rollback wizard to remove a patch package and restore previously saved files in a global or nonglobal zone, or both. Lets begin by creating a simple zpool, called datapool. When you patch or upgrade oracle solaris, a new version of the zpool may be available. Specifies to use the standard date format when displaying the date.
It is simple to upgrade an existing pool, adding the new functionality. Adding a physical disk as a mirror to an existing zpool. Dec 07, 2012 growing disks for virtual machines have become pretty trivial with tools like livecds and gparted. Oracle solaris zfs troubleshooting and pool recovery. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. Displaying storage pool virtual device information. We have performed patching for solaris os under zfs with zones using live upgrade. Live upgrade commands are differnet in solaris 11be commands compare to solaris 10 lu commands box. How to use zpool split to split rpool in solaris 11 sparc by admin you can use this feature to split a mirrored root pool, but the pool that is split off is not bootable until you perform some additional steps.
I have a doubts on step 8 specially can someone clear my step 8 doubts or if anything wrong between step 1 to step 9 please correct that also as i have pretty good idea about step 10 mean patching in solaris 10. Solaris operating system version 10 1 u11 and later information in this document applies to any platform. This is a limitation of zfs and is documented under oracle solaris zfs. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. After patching global zone, nonglobal zone fails to start up with fslocal service in maintenance. Then youll need to mount the boot environment you wish to change. If zpool import doesnt show you the rpool, you can try forcing it to recognize rpool by importing with the f option.
Reading this blog may confuse you or may increase understanding of unixlinux operating system and its component. In the oracle solaris 10 811 release, you can specify a separate var file. This clone is listed as an alternate boot environment in the grub menu for x86 systems or in the boot menu for sparc. Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased. Zfs uses the snapshot feature to copy only the files that are changed and thus saves the disk space. Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on the network. Patching and upgrading your cluster managing your oracle. Create a zfs pool with a single disk be set to a user definable value. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. Recently i had to grow my solaris 11 disk from 16gb to 20gb. The t option enables you to gather timestamped statistics about the pools.
Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Some data centers apply only the bare minimum of changes, such as critical security patches, operating on the principle of if it aint broke, dont fix it. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Take one of the mirrored drives and stick it on another machine, boot from a solaris 11. Ok, the short story is, some of zfs file systems on this pool have permanent errors, including the root zfs filesystem, which means iv lost the whole pool, about 2tb data. Mirroed root zpool cant be split and its not supported. The following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11. You can use this feature to split a mirrored root pool, but the pool that is split off is not bootable until you perform some additional steps. How to use zpool split to split rpool in solaris 11 sparc by admin. Oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris.
The following sections describe different scenarios for creating and destroying zfs storage pools. I want to install solaris10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with pr the unix and linux forums. Ive tried deleting log files and other useless stuff but its not enough. Lets su to root, confirm our environment, and create some disk files before we get started with zfs. Even though zfs, the zetabyte file system made its appearance during the life of solaris 10. Solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools the urban penguin. I had a zpool which was running on 2 mirrored 3tb disks. Just looking for someone that might have some insight. Here is the procedure to upgrade the kernel patches in solaris 10 with zfs filesystem using live upgrade method 1. I want to install solaris 10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with pr the unix and linux forums. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot.
Ips is an integrated solution that helps automate and ease the complexity of managing system software on oracle solaris 11 by integrating patching with package updates. Extending zfs rpool under virtualized x86 abstract often when an os is first installed, resources or redundancy may be required beyond what was originally inscope on a project. This page provides the latest information on patching. I dont think gparted can resize the solaris2 partitions used by solaris 11 so i did the resize on a running system using format. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it.
I decided to take this opportunity to set up a mirror to migrate the syspool rpool to another disk. How to install a zfs boot block in solaris the geek diary. 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. 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. Warning content posted here are gained through the real world experience or some may come from training or any other internet sources. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system. However, the cifs features are not supported in the solaris 10 release. A mirrored zfs storage pool can be quickly cloned as a backup pool by using the zpool split command. I know im not in the right place, just trying everything i can.
Need to know the procedure to add the ip to solaris 11. You can use the luupgrade command to patch or upgrade an existing zfs be. This is having zfs filesystem and 10 sparseroot zones are there. Need to know the procedure to add the ip to solaris 11 zone. Good luck getting the zpool ondisk format information from oracle. You need to mount the zfs root pool so you can install the boot block that corresponds to the patch level of the operating system you will be booting. Zfs zettabyte filesystem is a file system designed by sun microsystems for the solaris operating system. The approach you take to patching and upgrading your cluster will vary depending on your data center standards. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Creating and destroying zfs storage pools oracle solaris. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data compression, raid, and data encryption. Live upgrade commands are differnet in solaris 11 be commands compare to solaris 10 lu commands box.
Solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools the urban. After patching global zone, nonglobal zone fails to start. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. Nov 26, 2015 solaris live upgrade is a superb tool that lets your operating system create an alternate boot environments. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. All the zfs root systems should use liveupgrade for os patching and rollback operation. For solaris 11, you no need to run installgrub command. Live upgrade is a simple way to update or patch systems and minimize downtime and mitigate risks often associated with patching efforts. The solaris 10 1008 release includes modifications to support the solaris cifs environment as described in zfs. Creating a boot environment creating and administering. If you want to create a backup of an existing boot environment, for example, prior to modifying the original boot environment, you can use the beadm command to create and mount a new boot environment that is a clone of your active boot environment.
How to configure a mirrored root pool sparc or x86vtoc. In solaris 11 etcdfssharetab is not the file to do any modification when sharing the zfs. My solaris server is an esxi virtual machine and currently has one hard drive assigned to it thats 100gb. I want to install solaris10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go. It relies on a networkcentric and efficient approach with automatic software dependency checking and validation, and it builds on the foundation of oracle solaris zfs as the. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. First sector last partition tag flags sector count sector mount directory 0 4 00 34 122160829 122160862 8 11 00 122160863 16384 122177246 output from.
First of all, let me say that my personnel experience of suns patch automation tools is limited. In zfs, you no need to break the mirror disks for os patching. Oct 22, 2015 oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. Attach a second disk to configure a mirrored root pool.
Below is a simple live upgrade be creation and patching example. I am in the process of moving my current zfs pool from solaris express 11 to openindiana, primarily because i can not get patches etc without a support contract from oracle. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. Chapter 11 oracle solaris zfs troubleshooting and pool recovery. Oracle solaris 11 general administration oracle database. Create root pools with whole disks by using the d identifier. At the heart of the filesystem are zfs pools which group disks. Solaris zfs command line reference cheat sheet the geek diary. Dec 07, 20 solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools december 7, 20 by the urban penguin even though zfs, the zetabyte file system made its appearance during the life of solaris 10. Recently the disk that my syspool sits on started to lock up on my nexenta ncp server. Nov 29, 2016 solaris 10 q4, 2016 patching instructions 1. Patching global and nonglobal zones keep the global and nonglobal zones secured by patching them with the fixlets in the patches for solaris site.
Zfs your future, today zfs root no more ufs zfs booting and. Specifies the interval in seconds between which information is. Growing disks for virtual machines have become pretty trivial with tools like livecds and gparted. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience. The higher version of the zpool cant be used on the lower patch level.
This involves moving the pool from zfs version 31 down to zfs version 28. In case of a zfs root, we need not have a separate partition. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. In general, a systems zfs root pool is created when the system is installed. 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. Therefore, these properties are set to readonly values.
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