Solaris 10 p2v with zfs root with solaris 10 coming end of life and the push to solaris 11 going strong, there is still a need to consolidate older model chassis. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands. The packaging design im working on has support for management of images, which are a combination of the basic idea of a boot environment with some amount of linkage or sharing, as in zones. We are thinking of decommissioning the physical server and covnert it to a virtual machine for regulatory reasons. 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. Oracle solaris kernel zones, the latest oracle solaris zones technology, were added in oracle solaris 11. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. These updates added significant new technologies and enhancements to solaris, already regarded as the premier enterprise unix operating system for scalability, stability, and.
This can be used to move solaris 11 systems between physical and virtual deployments p2v and vice versa, virtual to physical v2p. With ips, you can update all of the packages on your system that have available updates, or you can update individual packages that are not constrained by the system. For information about fields in the fmri, see fault management resource identifiers. Ensure that you have installed the scripts for the solaris 11 patching solution, as described in installing the scriptbased patching solution for solaris 11 to perform patch analysis, the role running the job must be mapped to root on. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. Oct 16, 20 installing applying an idr pkgpatch using a. Managing solaris 11 servers via ansible from my fedora machine is actually less exciting than previously thought. It is normally not possible to manually install a package from a newer release of solaris 11. Solaris 10 x8664 conversion to vmware howto 7 years, 11 months ago karma. It resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in correct order. Do we have to upgrade current t5220 solaris 10 server to 11 then migrateport all data and zones to new t52 solaris 11 server. In addition, an extended object named solaris 11 analysis results, which you can later use to view patching analysis results through live browse, is imported into the. Patch check advanced pca generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads patches.
To casual observers, it became clear that big bang approach to oss was becoming obsolete. There is no internet connection on the target machines. With secure live migration, kernel zones can limit the. Some of this flexibility was rolled back with solaris 11, to see ksplice finally start arriving on the scene with oracle solaris 11. Solaris 10 physical server must be running with solaris 10 1011 update. The following command shows that oracle solaris 11. Solaris 11 global zone must have minimum 7gb of free space for solaris 10 zone installation. Applying critical patch update of april 2017 on solaris 11. System patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. The p2v physical server to virtual machine migration is effectively the technical process of decommissioning a physical sparc server by relocating its workload to an isolated instance of solaris, running in software known as a nonglobal zone on a more powerful server, like a t8 or m8 running solaris 11 and oracle vm server for sparc known as. Mar 02, 2018 physical p2v migration in solaris solaris 9 to solaris 10 physical p2v migration in solaris p2v migration is the excellent feature of solaris where you can migrate the physical server as zone into any another solaris server which has sufficient resources.
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. Under the depot folder, navigate to solaris patch analysis. Browsing the oracle solaris 11 supported repository in firefox. Jun 04, 2012 oracle solaris zones physicaltovirtual p2v a new feature for solaris 10 910.
Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly. Dec 07, 2011 zonep2vchk can be copied for s11 to s10 is used to generate info needed for p2v solaris10 zone does not supported statically linked binaries to support svr4 pkg and patching one need to install 11925475 sparc, 11953424, and 14091402 or 11925575, 11953524 and 14091502 x86x64, or later versions in solaris 10 before created archive. Jun 12, 2012 copy the zonep2vchk script from your oracle solaris 11 system to the oracle solaris 10 instance or system to identify any issues that might prevent the instance from running as a solaris10 zone. Solaris 11 site enabled also rhsm plugin enabled cache size for the server increased i have. Hi all, beginner in solaris 10 administration, i need to upgrade a solaris 10 os sparc to update 6.
Havent tried to p2v any solaris derivative so no idea if the linux toolset will work or not but as the system replaces drivers as it does the p2v i cant imagine that the linux process will work. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Jul 02, 2012 i have use a solaris 10 box with zfs more steps with ufs to test, and a vanilla solaris 11 11 to import. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. If a package is constrained, an appropriate message indicating why it has been constrained is provided. Performing a solaris 11 patch analysis documentation for. Solaris 10 x8664 conversion to vmware howto horizon systems. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. Show all versions show obsolete packages show renamed packages.
How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. From the solaris 11 web site oracle solaris 11 express 2010. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Too bad this filesystem is so confidential, as i permit to do some black magic. Oracle solaris zones physical to virtual p2v oracle. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. This feature provides the ability to build a solaris 10 images from physical system and migrate it into a virtualized operating system environment there are. I have a legacy solaris physical master server on sparc hardware. The only reliable exit codes are 0 and 0 see the patchadd1m man page and youll find the exit codes very rarely actually match this list unless you use the t option to patchadd. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following.
How to p2v solaris sparc to vmware x86 virtual machine. In the new nsh script job wizard, on the general panel, define a name for the job and specify a location in the jobs folder in which to save the job. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. A subfolder named solaris11 patching solution is created in the depot folder. Then rightclick the solaris 11 patching script, and select nsh script job 2. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. I need your expert help, what is the best practice and simple way to migrateport from current server to new solaris 11 server. To see the available versions, use the following command. This same procedure should work for doing either a p2v or v2v. This procedure describes how to install the ldmp2v command on an oracle solaris 10 system by using the sunwldmp2v package if you want to install the ldmp2v command on an oracle solaris 11 system, the command is installed by default when you install the ldomsmanager package go to the oracle vm server for sparc.
Solaris 10 physical server must be running with solaris 10 10 11 update. 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. This folder contains a script subfolder with two nsh scripts the solaris 11 update repository script and the solaris 11 patching script. For example, if this system is running oracle solaris 11. In my case, after the p2v, i did not have to edit etcvfstab, probably because i had root on zfs. P2v options anyone ever do p2v for solaris8910 sparc using platespin or other tool and the virtual works in vmware or virtualbox. It can be the only tool you ever need for patch management, be it on a single machine or a complete network. Do you know of a tutorial or easy book that i can read. Ansible can be used to manage various kinds of server operating systems among them solaris 11. Nov 11, 2014 i have a legacy solaris physical master server on sparc hardware. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. That being said, solaris packages are usually locked into a particular set of revisions via a meta package called entire. Sun had previously set a very high bar with solaris, offering the ability to patch a live system with complete patch application on a reboot, or applying many parts of a system until eventual reboot. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary.
Sekhar lakkapragada, senior principal software engineer at oracle, wrote an article on how to accomplish this very task. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. This procedure describes how to install the ldmp2v command on an oracle solaris 10 system by using the sunwldmp2v package if you want to install the ldmp2v command on an oracle solaris 11 system, the command is installed by default when you install the ldomsmanager package go to the oracle vm server for sparc download page at. Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. How to migrate solaris 10 global zone into solaris 11. May 12, 2018 since oracle solaris 11 was released in november 2011, there have been two major updates the 11. Solaris 11 patching updating patch repository part2 duration. If this system does not have the solaris 11 cpu package installed, identify the solaris 11 cpu package for the sru that is installed, and query that package remotely.
Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. Image packaging system is a new package management system in oracle solaris 11 that provides a muchimproved and automated way of maintaining system software across the data center. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. 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. Dears, i am facing some issues while patching solaris 11 target machines in my environment. Mar 14, 2012 vmwares own p2v tools specify windows and linux only. Mar 31, 2014 solaris 10 p2v on solaris 11 global zone. The scenario describes below involves a solaris 10 physical node named oranode hosts an oracle database 10g and another oracle application and a solaris 11 global zone named. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to.
Logical domains physicaltovirtual p2v migration oracle. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Oracle solaris zones physicaltovirtual p2v a new feature for solaris 10 910. Oracle solaris zones physical to virtual p2v oracle the. It is recommended to download the correct version if installrepo. 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.
Since the amount of blog articles covering that is limited i thought it might be a nice challenge. To perform patch analysis for solaris 11 servers, you create and run an nsh script job from the provided solaris 11 patching script before you begin. Installing the oracle vm server for sparc p2v tool. I recently had to migrate several solaris 10 x8664 systems from xen server to vmware. Once necessary zip file is downloaded copy it to primary server and install repository.
Soalris plugin credentials configured in plugin dashboard. Hi all, we need to move physical solaris 10 system to virtual solaris 10 p2v. This feature provides the ability to build a solaris 10 images from physical system and migrate it into a virtualized operating system environment there are three main steps using this tool 1. On the solaris 10, fetch from solaris 11 sbinzonep2vcheck to create a zone templace for later. Hi no version of the vmware converter supports solaris so you have to do this completely manually step 1.
How to install the oracle vm server for sparc p2v tool. May 19, 2009 in fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. Solaris 10 x8664 conversion to vmware howto horizon. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris.
The aim of this post is to describe a physical to virtual p2v migration of a baremetal solaris 10 a physical node on a solaris 11 global zone solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. 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. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. Howto managing solaris 11 via ansible homeliquidat. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 elis blog. Copy the zonep2vchk script from your oracle solaris 11 system to the oracle solaris 10 instance or system to identify any issues that might prevent the instance from running as a solaris10 zone. Jun 06, 2018 solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. How to create and update a solaris 11 local repository server.
Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Kernel zones provide zerooverhead virtualization capability that enables independent kernel versions and independent patching for greater flexibility with application workloads. Storix announces baremetal recovery for oracle solaris 11. Vmwares own p2v tools specify windows and linux only. I have heard of sun containers virtualizing before but never knew much about it. Oracle solaris 11 packaging from the architect, stephen hahn, a summary of how indianas image packaging system ips changes patching. Visit oracle technology network patching center to obtain required system firmware patches, solaris os patches, and any oracle vm server for sparc software patches. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. All i did was boot into rescue mode, allow it to mount rpool on a, then simply reboot and on the next boot it came up fine, except for the networking. Physical p2v migration in solaris solaris 9 to solaris 10 physical p2v migration in solaris p2v migration is the excellent feature of solaris where you can migrate the physical server as zone into any another solaris server which has sufficient resources.
155 1120 843 307 1291 1380 770 859 42 1383 297 110 550 812 138 780 1133 855 664 447 1197 1048 870 796 82 549 972 239 270 91 466 754 783 341 1121 181 243 256 1443 779 1234 328 1419 1213 1012 310 747 1269