Even though zfs, the zetabyte file system made its appearance during the life of solaris 10. With solaris 11, oracle introduces the new zpool split command to split the zfs pool. If you do, you are committing yourself to sitting at a particular patch level for the life of your nas there is no way to upgrade it. Mar 02, 2016 what is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail. How to upgrade zpool version on solaris os the infra diary. 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. Nov 26, 2015 solaris patching with live upgrade, zfs makes it so much easier solaris live upgrade is a superb tool that lets your operating system create an alternate boot environments. Jan 04, 2008 solaris live upgrade can be used to patch a system as well as to upgrade from an earlier marketing or update release of solaris live upgrade avoids many of the problems encountered when patching a live solaris 10 boot environment as live upgrade modifies an inactive boot environment, rather than the live boot environment.
A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. Oct 09, 2014 4 replies to installing solaris x86 11. In addition, the zpool status command has been modified to notify you when your pools are running older versions. I want to patch one side of the mirror and keep intact another side safe in case of roll back is required.
I know im not in the right place, just trying everything i can. Mirroed root zpool cant be split and its not supported. How can i patch a global zone without patching nonglobal zones. Upgrading zfs storage pools zpool upgrade zfs backup and restore commands are renamed. In zfs, you no need to break the mirror disks for os patching. Solaris 8, solaris 9, and solaris 11 express are not impacted by this issue.
Scheduled pool scrubs in oracle solaris zfs oracle. 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. We have performed patching for solaris os under zfs with zones using live upgrade. Upgrading the zfs filesystem and zpool versions is a oneway operation. Following on to last weeks release of oracle solaris 11. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Also please perform a full backup of the server before patching to avoid any potential data loss. Take one of the mirrored drives and stick it on another machine, boot from a solaris 11. Zfs root, install the additional patches listed in. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system. Hi, i am currently using solaris 11 as an iscsi target. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. 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.
Zfs, also confussed bet now we have to read solaris 10 pdf or solaris 11 pdf. This is having zfs filesystem and 10 sparseroot zones are there. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Live upgrade commands are differnet in solaris 11 be commands compare to solaris 10 lu commands box. Dec 24, 2011 solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. 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. Zfs zpool and file system version numbers and features. Use a recent solaris release and check to actual pool version from it. I would say oracle solaris is completely moved to next generation os patching.
Oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. Create a zfs pool with a single disk be set to a user definable value. How to update solaris 11 system using ips the geek diary. Traditional method nonlive upgrade how to configure link based ipmp in solaris 11. In this article we will be focusing on redhat patching both online and offline. It has so many bugs and many restricted configuration setup. At the heart of the filesystem are zfs pools which group disks. Error importing a zfs pool of higher version oracle. Solaris live upgrade makes it possible to create an alternate boot environment with the upgraded software while the machine continues to.
Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Solaris using live upgrade to upgrade solaris 10 u9 to u10. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. 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. Solaris 10 zones are part of the base offering and fully supported as a part of oracles premier support for operating systems. As mentioned in the beginning of the article, opensolaris is no longer open source since 2010, thus, there is no compatibility between openzfs and. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. How to use liveupgrade with single disk, prepatching steps. Solaris 10 with patch 14450019 and without patch 125555 11 x86 platform solaris 10 with patch 14450119 and without patch 125556 11 note 1.
Oracle whitepaper how to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Jul 21, 2018 solaris 10 ldom kernel patching using live upgrade. The solaris 10 1008 release identifies cache device support is available by using the zpool upgrade v command. Also, consider displaying the features of the current zfs version on the system by.
Moreover, it is running solaris 10 u10 10 11 sunos bksol01 5. Pre upgrade preparation work first steps are to upgrade the existing live upgrade to u10 version as per most oracle documentation, but ill be specific about one. Solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone i am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Supports solaris 8 branded zones and solaris 9 branded zones but does require purchasing an additional license.
These updates can consist of either a system upgrade or the application of patches. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. This procedure describes a method of mirroring the root pool using zfs functions. March 26, 2014 by lingeswaran r leave a comment zpool version needs to be upgrade whenever you are performing the os patching. For solaris 11, you no need to run installgrub command. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Using live upgrade to apply patches to running solaris 10 x86. Reboot the system to use the new updated boot environment. Chapter 11 oracle solaris zfs troubleshooting and pool recovery. Solaris 10 ldom kernel patching using live upgrade. This article steps administrators through updating an oracle solaris 11 system with software packages that are provided with an active oracle support agreement, covering some of the basics that administrators should know to ensure the update goes successfully and safely. How to upgrade or patch a zfs root file system with zone. 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 live upgrade must be used as part of either a standard upgrade, a rolling upgrade, or a dualpartition upgrade.
Oracle solaris continues new features for zfs and zones web. So, solaris 11 which is radically different from the solaris 10, but talk about it separately it deserves another blog post for another time in terms of patching strategy is double. The first couple of opensolaris releases were primarily designed for use by developers who want to contribute to opensolaris. Oracle white paperhow to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade then add each patch individually. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. It is simple to upgrade an existing pool, adding the new functionality. I have a cluster node that i have applied the latest patch cluster i dont think this is a cluster issue so im posting here.
Solaris 10 patching using live upgrade with vxvm hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease, which means, upgrade. For what it is worth, i strongly suggest you do not use solaris 11 unless you are willing to pay for support. How to increase rpool size on solaris 11 requires a. How can i patch a non global zone without patching the global zone. Upgrading zfs storage pools managing zfs file systems in. Redhat patching is the process of making sure that every piece of software used is up to date with the most current versions and these patches fixes security vulnerabilities, bugs and improve features. Migrating from ufs to zfs with live upgrade solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. 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. In addition to the mirroring zfs provides a raidz configuration with single,double or triple parity. 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. Jun 08, 2011 often enough i have had to check the version of a zfs pool or file system version. This involves moving the pool from zfs version 31 down to zfs version 28. Next, if you are running on x86 hardware, you must reboot the system. With the zpool upgrade command, you can upgrade zfs storage pools from a previous oracle solaris release before using the command, use the zpool status command to check whether the pools were configured with a zfs version that is previous to the version currently on the system.
I want to install solaris 10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with procedure. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. If you have zfs storage pools from a previous solaris release, such as the solaris 10 1009 release, you can upgrade your pools with the zpool upgrade command to take advantage of the pool features in the current release. The higher version of the zpool cant be used on the lower patch level.
How to force a crash dump on tt2000 servers from alom. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Do not issue zpool upgrade after patching, since if you upgrade your zfszpools you will not be able to revert to former version. In addition, the zpool status command notifies you when your pools are running older versions.
If you have zfs storage pools from a previous solaris release, you can upgrade your pools with the zpool upgrade command to take advantage of the pool features in the current release. Solaris 11 ips local and web based repositories duration. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on. For the list of service alerts affecting each oracle solaris 11.
The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system. All the zfs root systems should use liveupgrade for os patching and rollback operation. Older version pools can be read by newer solaris updates, not the other way around hopefully. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. Solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools the urban penguin. Good luck getting the zpool ondisk format information from oracle. In order to do that, lets create a pool using an older version number yes, you can do that too, and then upgrade the pool. Thus it is important to chcek the zpool version before the upgrade. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. Using solaris live upgrade for patching oracle solaris blog. But still this feature need lot of maturity in order to use in critical production environment.
Review the licenses and update the system to oracle solaris 11. This feature can be used to increase the size of rpool. On october 31st i upgraded the system to solaris 11. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. 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. This is similar to raid5 and distributes parity along with the data and can lose one physical drive before a raid failure. 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. Also it dependence on the client environment whether they can improve the pool version since some client may run lower version and the pool need to be import some other system for several purpose, in this case the version should match always match so that it can be.
When you patch or upgrade oracle solaris, a new version of the zpool may be available. Please note that this requires a reboot of the system. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek. 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. 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. Latest solaris 10 8 11 supports zpool versions up to 29. With this update weve also taken the opportunity to re.
Does the zoneadm attach u option will update the patches in nonglobal zone in solaris 11. Just looking for someone that might have some insight. The approach you take to patching and upgrading your cluster will vary depending on your data center standards. Ive tried adding some new zfs luns and the windows and linux initiators can see them but give out io errors or freeze up when trying to initialize or partition the new disks. Because the newer version of zpool offers the more functionality and fixes a lot bugs. Also, solaris live upgrade works the same as in previous releases when you use zfs. This list can be created using the zpool upgrade v command. 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. Using live upgrade patching with solaris zones in the. Oracle solaris 10 has come with zfs and live upgrade features to eliminate the down time for os patching.
This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Patching would like to upgrade it to 14448807 but with this patch i cant access two of my four luns from the same ax4. Here is the procedure to upgrade the kernel patches in solaris 10 with zfs filesystem using live upgrade method 1. This will make it easier than ever to use the latest solaris version in oci. 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. It seems that solaris released a patch to zfs that will render the updated streams incompatible with nonpatched zfs systems independently of the version number. Solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools the urban. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. Oracle solaris 11 includes ips, a new networkcentric package management framework with automatic dependency checking. If you have multiple pools on your system, the default scheduled. These updates can consist of either a system upgrade. How to monitor network traffic using ipstat, tcpstat and netstat commands.
Ips has integrated package and patching, and can seamlessly manage system updates to oracle solaris zones environments. The solaris upgrade of the boot environment is partially complete. Increase root filesystem on solaris zone using zpool. Patching and upgrading your cluster managing your oracle.
Can i have different sru levels in non global zones. These updates can either be a system upgrade or the application of patches. How to upgrade zfs version and migrate zfs between platforms. Live upgrade is a simple way to update or patch systems and minimize downtime and mitigate risks often associated with patching efforts. Be sure you meet the disk requirements before issuing update.
Updated 21 feb 2012 for solaris 10 8 11 and solaris 11. How to upgrade zfs version and migrate zfs between. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. With the zpool upgrade command, you can upgrade zfs storage pools from a previous oracle solaris release. To patch, you must upgrade to a newer version of the software package in question.
The order in which the patches should be applied is specified in technical instruction 206844. Zfs is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by sun microsystems. Jul 12, 2012 ill cover the patching a be in another blog. Migrating to a zfs root file system or updating a zfs root. At a simple level, to update all packages on your system, if newer versions are. Zfs supports both stripped non redundant and mirror raidz storage pools. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Upgrading zfs storage pools oracle solaris administration. This page provides the latest information on patching. Below is a simple live upgrade be creation and patching example. We need to upgrade zpool version according to the vendor advice to get best support and best performance.
Zfs pool versions managing zfs file systems in oracle solaris. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. How to replace a failed disk in rpool x86 solaris 10 patching with svm. 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. Seperate the repo filesystem, this will give you zfs snapshot clone abilities to revert to old version of repo in case of mistake or bug. Automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Sometimes, i am curious where a specific feature was delivered. 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.
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