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. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat. Solstice disksuite is a free raid volume manager from sun microsystems. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in late 1991. Limitations exist with certain device drivers in solaris 10 os 65 dvdromcdrom drives on headless systems 66 6 solaris 10 release notes january 2005 10 61 61.
Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. 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. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image. Solaris volume manager formerly known as solstice disksuite is a tool for disk.
I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular.
Installing the sparcbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh022 installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032 installing the solstice disksuite cscoh023 rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr dobbs. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers root sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands sunwmdx solstice disksuite drivers. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all our. Solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager sdssvm here is a nice soft partitioning doc for disksuitesvm the only other docs are the man pages. Rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk on sparcbased platforms 83. Installing the sparcbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh022 70. Enhance system reliability with reference configurations effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk speed system recovery operationsboot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk.
With oracle, you need a roadmap on how to find the latest cpu or recommended patch cluster from oracle. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so. 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. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. If your system is running volume management, the cd is mounted automatically. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained softpanorama. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are presented in detail. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Jul 02, 2015 solaris volume managersolstice disksuite. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris.
In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Confidential, nj 0510 0511 solaris linux administrator. Refer to appendix a for information about volume management and mounting cds. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. Solaris volume manager formerly solstice disksuite is a software raid package for solaris. This document provides the stepbystep procedure, to install and maintain the solaris volume manager, in a solaris 10 os for x86 platforms environment for sun firetm x64 platforms. Involved user administration creating user account,password and set the password on red hat linux and solaris. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. This document provides the steps involved for installing solstice disksuite 4. A few month later i now have a disk mirror problem that i would normally fix by going into the gui screen metatool it appears that the third party didnt install disksuite after the upgrade. We recently got a third party in to upgrade our solaris 8 sparc server to solaris 10.
Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second edition. You can skip certain procedures under the following conditions. 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. Sunhsis, starsuite, solstice disksuite, and solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. But, solaristm operating systemos also gives the flexibility to mirror the root disk using solaristm volume managersvm, in solaris 10 os. But, solaris tm operating systemos also gives the flexibility to mirror the root disk using solaris tm volume managersvm, in solaris 10 os. 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. It is best used as an example or reference rather than a complete learning tool.
Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet. Solaris linux administrator resume nj hire it people we. By default solaris 10 have no named make utility, its have gmake. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. These instructions are written with solaris 9 and previous in mind.
Unix my first love check veritas volume manager version. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the. How to replace a disk which contained soft partitions by ramdev published february 4, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 when trying to access a soft partition after a disk replacement, the metareplace command or any direct io to a soft partition will fail with the following types of errors. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris.
A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager software. Does anyone know where i can download disksuite for solaris 10. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. This section provides information and procedures to install and configure solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you install. Even if you think that youll not use disksuite, do create the slice, as its a small. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are.
Suns own www site, contains pointers to sunsites and patches and has lots of info, press. Weve recently moved to a monthly release cadence for solaris 10 os patches. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. This page contains some notes on how to recover from failed disks, etc. Nov 27, 2006 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. Solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. 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. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers root sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands. Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before solstice disksuite 4. Solaris 10 1008 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another. Solaris 10 has a new feature boot m verbose which allows you to customize boot console output.
Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Notes on disaster recovery of solaris boxes using sun disksuite package general musings and departmentally specific background. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria.
Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. When you add a disk drive to a diskset, solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. Confidential, nj 05 10 0511 solaris linux administrator. 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. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. Since there is currently only a single sun server in physics, we are addressing a specific. Sep 12, 20 weve recently moved to a monthly release cadence for solaris 10 os patches. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by.
Solaris linux administrator resume nj hire it people. 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. Cisco media gateway controller software installation and. In solaris, how to check the number of users currently logged in. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. Installed and configured solaris 10 by using jumpstart serverjet server and also installed and configured linux by using kickstart server.
Apache web server in this example was compiled from sources on solaris 10. A sysadmins unixersal translator rosetta stone or what do they call that in this world. 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. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies.
If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you install the solstice disksuite software. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. The solaris oe post installation and configuration. If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is already installed.
Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. By matthew cheek, february 26, 2003 the sun solaris operating environment oe is a mature implementation of unix that runs both on sun sparc and intel x86 architecture hardware. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. Boot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. Solaris volume manager, in a solaris 10 os for x86 platforms environment for. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032 72. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is. Please list command and specific directory that patches should.
After successfully installing the solaris oe on each cluster node and before you build the sun cluster software environment, you must perform the postinstallation and sitespecific procedures in this section to verify that the operating environment was configured correctly. Effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk. Dec 27, 2001 enhance system reliability with reference configurations effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk speed system recovery operationsboot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Feature descriptions for solaris 9 management tools 25 feature descriptions for solaris 8 management tools 26 availability of solaris management commands 27 solaris 10 system management commands 28 solaris 8 system management commands 29 for more information about solaris management tools 29 2 working with the solaris management console tasks 31. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Loading the sun solaris 10 operating environment 286 installing the sparcbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh022 286 installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032 289 installing the solstice disksuite cscoh023 292 rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk on sparcbased platforms 2100.
Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Install solstice disksuite with jumpstart oracle community. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Sunwmd solstice disksuite sunwmdg solstice disksuite tool sunwmdn solstice disksuite log daemon patch no. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Selecting the best method for adding signed patches. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. This article describes the method of mirroring a boot drive using solstice disksuite via the command line. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory.
Chapter 4, latebreaking solaris patches, provides a list of patches that. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software. Installation of solaris 8 0202 any cluster required. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume.
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