These kind of situation rasie due to application incompatibility with high version of operating systems. About performing package and patch operations remotely. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Oracle solaris 10 is assumed operating system throughout this document. Patching the miniroot image tasks patching the miniroot.
Bootarchive, introduced in solaris 10 10 08 update 6 which is similar to the initrd in linux. Oracle solaris zones physical to virtual p2v oracle. Zones physical to virtual p2v 2 introducing p2v with oracle solaris containers in oracle solaris 10 9 10 physical to virtual p2v describes the process of taking the applications, os, and data from a physical. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7.
However due to various issues with solaris 10 releases, patching of the miniroot. The compressed miniroot was adopted first in solaris for x86 and then in solaris for sparc over the course of solaris 10 update releases. There are 4 basic steps involved in converting a physical server to a virtual server. This is especially useful when you need to patch solaris 10 so p2v migrations can be performed when moving to new servers like the m122. Patching the miniroot image is strictly used for adding driver and hardware support to the process that performs the actual installation of the solaris os. Chapter 7 patching the miniroot image tasks oracle docs. It didnt like something and will now not load the kernel. Heads up on kernel patch installation issues with jumpstart or zfs root.
Then i have just install the missing patches which have showing in error and created the new flar. There is a flarcreate bug on solaris 9 that can be worked around by using the aforementioned file in this example, we will use oldphysserver jumpstart as the p2v source and cdom001 as a p2v target. Lets see how to fix such a issues on oracle solaris 10 x86 and sparc environment. Configure two node vcs cluster on linux rhel 7 veritas cluster tutorials for beginners duration. Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 1. Last few days im working on debugging the solaris 10 jumpstart install for some old desktops ultra 10, ultra 60. This book describes how to install the solaris operating system solaris os remotely over a local area network or a wide area network. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. I have recently installed solaris 10 and things were going great until i tried to change a driver file nf to add my dat 72 tape drive. This is because wanboot actually loads a miniroot to memory, and solaris 10 miniroot is much larger than solaris 9. Patching the miniroot image example oracle solaris 10. Once you have activated the new be, it should automatically populate the new be information on menu. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
Patching the miniroot image is strictly used for adding driver and hardware support to the process that performs the actual installation of the oracle solaris os. Its known to be necessary when performing a flash install of an updated zfsroot image. Patching a compressed miniroot the solaris operating system uses a compressed miniroot. The patch set is now available in mos as a patchset cpu, which can be downloaded from here. Using an example and various scenarios, this paper describes how to take advantage of the.
How to migrate solaris 10 global zone into solaris 11. It can be considered best practice to patch the boot miniroot as soon as possible. The solaris operating system uses a compressed miniroot. Among few wellknown problems, ive noticed such an anomaly. Patching the miniroot image tasks this chapter provides a stepbystep procedure and an example to patch the miniroot image when you are setting up an install server. The name of physical server is ldom guest solaris 10u3 kernel 11883333. 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. The solaris 10 live upgrade zones starter patch bundle has been released. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Wanboot support actually started in solaris 9 1203. This same procedure should work for doing either a p2v or v2v. Patching a miniroot image on the solaris 10 os for x86 or sparc platforms this article describes how to install the latest kernel update patch, or any patch, to a sparc or x86 miniroot image for the jumpstart installation program. Patching a miniroot image on the solaris 10 os for x86 or. When you patch the miniroot image, the patch is not installed on the system where the oracle solaris os installation occurs or on the system that the patchadd command is run.
Bootarchive is collection of core kernel modules and configuration files packed in either ufs or isofs format. I describe only migration p2v of a physical server in a ldom, the installation and the configuration of oracle. This document describes the process of creating and installing a solaris 10 image build from physical system and migrate it into a virtualized operating system environment using the oracle solaris 10 zones physicaltovirtual p2v capability. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. This file can be loaded by choosing the solaris failsafe entry from the grub menu. While you can choose to use any recent solaris 10 cpu os patchset or recommended os patchset, we recommend you use the most recent solaris 10 recommended patch set. I trying clone this server to new environment sparc t72 with backup and restore zfs snapshot as ldom guest too. In upcoming days,definitely you need to migrate the solaris 10 physical servers as a local zone in solaris 11 global zone if you want to continue to use solaris 10 operating system. Physical p2v migration in solaris solaris 9 to solaris 10. The name of physical server is ldomguest solaris 10u3 kernel 11883333. Using solaris jumpstart with the solaris 10 os for x86x64 platforms. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remote system is another solaris10 zone, the patching operation works correctly. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail.
Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 9. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. Migrating to oracle solaris 10 branded zones from older. I have done this activity as my solaris 9 host was running on ancient hardware and needed to be migrated.
This is done by creating a flash archive of the source system. It might just seem like a good way to keep systems patched. The initial installation was s10u5 which is deployed from a miniroot that has no knowledge of a boot archive. Recently ive been asked to upgrade and patch the system running with solaris 10 u3 with vxvm 4. Solaris 10 p2v migration issue unix and linux forums.
Note this procedure is only for patching the miniroot, not for patching the complete network installation image. Because zones do not nest, the p2v process on these systems makes the existing zones unusable inside the branded zone. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Bug information for logical domains p2v migration tool on logical. How to go physical to virtual with oracle solaris zones. I need to get into a miniroot session to change the file. If you are using solaris 10 wanboot, wanboot client must have 512mb memory or higher. Cpqary3 driver on solaris 10 as an aside, due to not being updated, the drivers may not install fully to the miniroot in that they kick errors about dependencies on packages that are not installed in the miniroot, nor are they installable into the miniroot. Solaris 10 p2v migration issue hi all, we need to move physical solaris 10 system to virtual solaris 10 p2v. Hi all, we need to move physical solaris 10 system to virtual solaris 10p2v.
This is due to the primary interface wont be plumbed as dhcp interface, and thus sbindhcpinfo sjumpscf failure during jumpstart and thus reports sbindhcpinfo. Please apply 12711105 or later to mini root of the install image. Lets first look at converting existing solaris 8, 9 and 10 physical servers into solaris 89 branded zones on solaris 10 and solaris 10 branded zones on solaris 11. So you may need to stick with older version of operating system in a order. Solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Solaris 10 u6 sparc dhcp jumpstart issues oracle community. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching.
Before starting with upgrade it is good to check and fix any issues with current system and environment. This procedure shows how to install a kernel update ku patch on a oracle solaris 10 811 miniroot image. A miniroot consists of all the solaris software that is required to boot the. If using solaris 9 404, the wanboot client must have 256mb memory or higher. An additional step in the p2v process occurs when there are sparse root zones on the oracle solaris 10 9 10 or later released update source physical system. I recently had to migrate several solaris 10 x8664 systems from xen server to vmware. In same way to can migrate the solaris 8 or solaris 10 server into some other server as solaris zone. Hi no version of the vmware converter supports solaris so you have to do this completely manually step 1. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches.
Using solaris jumpstart with the solaris 10 os for x86x64. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Oracle technical articlevirtualizing your enterprise infrastructure. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris 10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. As part of the move to extended support, solaris 10 patchsets are released on a quarterly basis, so if you have. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howto patchsolaris10 wanboot miniroot image 20070710t16. In exercise shown below i am going to migrate my solaris 9 server as zone into my solaris 10 server. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. This is for the convenience of system administrators when the normal entry fails to boot.
Looks like i will need to patch the mini root, which i will be doing shortly. When the sparc enterprise server is configured to boot solaris 10 10 08 or later from a disk in a scsi or sas disk array device or file unit, the install server must be running solaris 10 10 08 or later, or patch level 7709 or later equivalent to solaris 10 10 08. Frequently asked questions about system firmware oracle. Sparc enterprise oracle vm server for sparc important. It is designed to make it simpler for customers running on systems below solaris 10 508 update 5 to apply the prerequisite patch level needed to be able to utilize basic live upgrade functionality in a zones environment. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones by ramdev published october 26, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. See below for an easy way to determine whether your solaris system uses a compressed miniroot. Sun microsystems solaris jumpstart technology is used to automate the installation of the solaris operating system and other associated software on multiple nodes of a network. Solaris 10 live upgrade zones starter patch bundle. However, if the remote system is a miniroot or an oracle solaris 10 system that is not a solaris10 zone, the operation will produce undefined results.
On a system that is running the oracle solaris 10 os, follow these steps, but note these details. 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 quarter. Patching the miniroot image tasks oracle solaris 10 8. 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. Solaris 10 x8664 conversion to vmware howto horizon systems.
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