Patch cluster install script for solaris 9 recommended patch cluster. Which are the packages that are installed in the svm. Solaris live upgrade support use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on solaris 9 and 10 computers. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris. Solaris patch manager offers the most comprehensive patch management features for the solaris os. 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.
It does not necessarily apply to some applications embedded in solaris, such as staroffice. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Solaris 9 with patch 11492906 and without patch 11223412 notes. That is, theres one set of patches for solaris 8, a separate set of patches for solaris 9, and another set of patches for solaris 10. Previous releases of solaris 10 os for x86 release had some problems which are fixed in update1. Solaris 9 patches 11433208 and 11492906 are withdrawn. Video disksuite unmirror unencapsulating procedure 05.
Bigfix patch for solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. 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. In other words, although you may be running disksuite v4. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Among the new features planned for solaris 9, due at the end of the month, is patch manager, an analysis engine that automates the process of locating required security and software patches for a. Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuite solaris volume manager become superuser on the cluster node. Learn more about live patching for the solaris 9 operating system from the expert community at experts exchange. Solaris 9 patches released from november 1, 2011, will have vintageextended access entitlement by default, which means that only customers with an extended support contract for solaris will be able to access them. So reboot after applying patches, check carefully that. Solstice enterprise agents, sunswift, showme tv, sunhsis, starsuite, solstice disksuite, and solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks.
This root mirroring procedure for solaris volume manager is tested, and is only recommended, with solaris 10 os for x86 update 1 106 release or later. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive on the node. Solaris recommended patch clusters do not upgrade solaris to the next minor. You can start configuration at how to set the number of metadevice or volume names and disk sets. So i was goofing around and added a slice with the remaining space about a. Weve flushed the queues of any fixes which were still inflight from that time and released the final set of solaris 8 and 9 patches have been released to mos. So it makes sense to try and keep servers of the same osarchitecture on the same patch level and define a master host, whose patch level is automatically checked at regular intervals. Go to mirroring the root disk or creating disk sets in a cluster to continue to configure solstice disksuite software. As we are a contract customer, we are running a local patch server, and use that as our primary source of patches. When solaris 9 gets released, the solstice disksuite name will change to solaris volume manager svm and it will be bundled in with solaris 9. The adminsuite product ships a small number of required patches for different releases of solaris. List of integrated patches solaris 9 sparc platform edition. The steps are basically identical for the other releases.
Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. Additionally, the soft partitions feature was added to the base disksuite product via a product patch. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. 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. 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. I installed patch manager but in its read me file i found out that its only for solaris 8 and there is some update manager for solaris 9. The appropriate patches are applied as you create new clients. Upgrading from solaris 9 releases with recommended patch cluster partially succeeds 6202868 45. Solaris 8 volume management services are provided by solstice disksuite 4. You can even run solaris 10 guest domains under a solaris 11 control domain and run solaris 8 and solaris 9 branded zones in your solaris 10 guest domains if.
Security vulnerability with solaris volume manager svm. Patch cluster install script for solaris 9 recommended warning systems with limited disk space should not install patches. It provides command line tools and guis for managing users, resources, and disk storage. I have disksuite installed to mirror root drives and need to install kernel patches. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. Patch manager manages patches that are created for the solaris 9 operating environment and compatible releases. Each marketing release of solaris has its own set of patches. In addition, you can use this procedure to install solstice disksuite software and patches solaris 8 or to configure solaris volume manager mirrored disksets solaris 9. Once you uncompress the tar file, therell be a readme, which explains minimum patch levels, and which version of the branded zones package you need to install. Confirm if the server boots from the unencapsulated svm root mirror disk. Ok, so i have a remote system 7 states away thats using sds to manage the two 18 gig disks.
For more information, see the solaris volume manager administration guide at. Perform this procedure to use sunplex installer to install and configure sun cluster software and patches on all nodes in the cluster in a single operation. Solstice disksuite, ipmp, first support for ipv6 and ipsec manual keying only, mdb. A local unprivileged user may be able to panic solaris 9 systems which have solaris volume manager svm devices configured. Breaking and syncing a svm root mirror solaris troys unix space. Limitedtime offer applies to the first charge of a new. The kernel modules for solaris volume manager svm, are available from the cdrom. If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is already installed. Ordinarily you will be able to just bring your current copy of solaris up to speed or create an alternate boot environment and bring that up to speed with the opttsbinpca command see live upgrade quickstart for more info on this. Unix my first love check veritas volume manager version. 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. Is disksutie part of solaris 10 or should i used format uitility to add the hard drive and then volumne manager to extend the new hard drive. Compare solaris 8 to solaris 9 disadvantages upgrade.
Patches differ by solaris version and architecture. System administration tools whats new in the solaris 9. After that, therell be no new solaris 8 or solaris 9 patches created. Boot solaris 10 from detached root mirrors the unix and. For solaris 9 on the 807 release of solaris 10, i need to install version 1. Please shutdown before you perform any additional volume manager. Solaris live upgrade tutorial liveupgrade what is it. Use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on solaris 9. I recently ran some patching on a solaris 10 server and as per normal procedure i detached the lvm root disk mirrors first to preserve the prepatching copy of the os. You can display installed patches and their properties, add patches to one or more systems concurrently, remove patches, analyze a systems patch requirements, and download patches from the sunsolve online service. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. Installation of solaris 8 0202 any cluster required.
Some research indicates a number of steps to follow and some indicate just a few. How to install solstice disksuite software sun cluster. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Solaris 9 transitioning to extended support oracle. Find answers to compare solaris 8 to solaris 9 disadvantages upgrade from the expert community at experts exchange. The solaris 9 release seamlessly supports upgrading existing systems that run solaris disksuite sds to the solaris volume manager without disturbing or changing the configuration. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement.
Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. This part has bare minimal support for fc connectivity. Its a netra x1 with an ibm and a seagate internal drives both sun 40 gig, but the ibm is about a gig bigger. During the patching, i ran into the unix and linux forums. Install solstice disksuite with jumpstart oracle community. Bigfix patch patch for solaris users guide 1 overview 9. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software. The unix and linux forums how to check svm version solaris 9 and 10. A security vulnerability in solaris volume manager svm. Solaris 9 exiting extended support period oracle solaris.
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. I have disksuite working great, mirroring all slices. The mirroring procedure i created uses installboot to ensure theres a bootblk on both disks of an sds mirror. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts. If you are using the solaris 9 or solaris 8 401 min releases, you can download and install the latest sfs package san 4. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold1m is running and configured to manage cdrom devices. You can use the admclientpatch command to spool additional patches or you can remove patches from the spool area that you no longer need. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image. Perform this procedure to use sunplex manager to install and configure sun cluster software and patches on all nodes in the cluster in a single operation. Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product.
I used the live upgrade tools in the solaris os to successfully apply the latest patch cluster to a machine running the solaris 9 os, without bringing the machine into singleuser mode. The following applies to core solaris packages and patches. So it is recommended to use solaris 10u1 if customers intend to use svmtm for root. In addition, you can use this procedure to install solstice disksuite software and patches solaris 8 or to configure solaris volume manager mirrored disk sets solaris 9. It gives you unified, near realtime visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all solaris endpoints. Live upgrade is a feature of solaris since version 2. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. Last solaris 8 and 9 patches released oracle solaris blog.
The 2nd part is the complete and current fc support which is distributed as san patches. Solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. Upgrades of mirrored root file systems are fully and automatically supported. Upgrading disksuite soft partitions are only available on disksuite v4.
Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. I want to add an additional disk to a solaris 10 server. Solaris 9 with patch 11433208 and without patch 11433210 x86 platform. Some sites just say metadetach install patch cluster reboot metattach but then other sites indicate to issue metadetach, metaclear, metainit, metaattach.
However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. For sol 9 u4 or with patch 145409, fs size can be up to 16 tb. If you installed solaris 9 software, solaris volume manager is already installed. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after. Solaris live upgrade tutorial liveupgrade mattzone. How to install and configure sun cluster software sunplex. Hello, for the last couple of months, all of my solaris 9 systems have been reporting no patches required.
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