Migrating to oracle solaris 10 branded zones from older. Upgrading to a solaris update release oracle solaris 10. Theres also a podcast and a dedicated solaris blog a number of technical articles have been released, including george wilsons video overview of zfs enhancements in solaris 10 9 10 as with all solaris updates, solaris 10 9 10. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Updating your operating system to oracle solaris 11. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Can someone guide me to a link where i can download older update for solaris 10 os i need solaris 10u46. Use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on solaris 9 and 10. The upgrade methods for solaris 8, solaris 9, and oracle solaris 10 are. As far as the actual upgrade is concerned i would download and burn the dvd installation media. Sun supports and tests an upgrade from any release to a release that is no more than two releases ahead of the one you are running. I have been dealing with solaris 10 live upgrade issues from almost five years but still the new lu patches are not able to fix the common.
Thanks to my colleague enda oconnor, who has made p7zip available for solaris 8 sparc, its now possible to upgrade directly from solaris 8 sparc to the latest solaris 10 update releases such as solaris 10 508 and solaris 10 10 08. The release of the solaris live upgrade packages must match the release of the os you are upgrading to. Now possible to upgrade directly from solaris 8 sparc to. Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. Under the program name software express for solaris or just solaris express, a binary release based on the current development basis was made available for download on a monthly basis, allowing anyone to try out new features and test the quality and stability of the os as it progressed to the release of the next official solaris version. How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. The endpoint upgrade list solaris 10 analysis is enhanced. Maintaining boot environments with patches and software packages. But in case of branded zone, brandz framework extends the solaris zones infrastructure to include the creation of brands, which in turn can be used to create different operating environments to accommodate solaris 8 or solaris 9 operating systems as nonglobal zones. The article was written for solaris 10 on sparc but the principles apply equally to x64.
If he had a sun4v he could run a zone with 8 or 9 inside 11. To better understand bigfix patch for solaris, read the following questions and answers. Dynamic reconfiguration enables system configurations to be changed without rebooting, minimizing planned and unplanned downtime. For example, if you previously installed the end user solaris software group on.
Is it possible to upgrade sol10 update 9 to update 10 by booting from the dvd. Solaris 10 509 update 7 and subsequent kernel patchids the kernel patch included in solaris 10 509 update 7 has now been released to sunsolve. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded. The solaris 8 and solaris 9 patch utilities are unaware of oracle solaris zones. Is it possible to upgrade sol10 update 9 to update 10. To better understand bigfix patch for solaris, read the. This example upgrade has been done in x86 virtual machine in virtual box. The customer wanted to reduce the cost of patching solaris systems by enabling more junior sys admins to successfully patch solaris 10 zones systems. Now the question may raise that,is it possible upgrade my older version of solaris to solaris 11. So, we are planning to move from solaris 9 to solaris 10 and apply 9. This book provides describes how to use solaris live upgrade to create and upgrade new boot environments. Solaris live upgrade command reference part ii upgrading and migrating with solaris live upgrade to a zfs root pool. Any patches that are supplied as part of one of the releases noted above are reapplied to your system. Let us create a new zone with a minimal resources and settings required to get it up and running.
Located on sunsolve requires valid support contract to download. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software. Solaris containersresource management and oracle solaris zones. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. This article will talk about the oracle solaris 11. Login to that client and make a tar file of the solaris client software. So the plan is to upgrade the application in the branded zone, then upgrade the branded zone to solaris 10. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. The timezone of solaris 9 are already set to asiajakarta because these were installed by me whereas the solaris 8 was installed by.
Solaris 10, as does the software upgrade process for zoned systems. If you are already running the 10 305 release os and have installed individual patches, upgrading to a subsequent solaris 10 release causes the following. This article explains how to update an oracle solaris 11. Do we have to upgrade current t5220 solaris 10 server to 11 then migrateport all data and zones to new t52. Installing solaris live upgrade oracle solaris 10 910. Using the lumount command on a system that contains nonglobal zones. While you can choose to use any recent solaris 10 cpu os patchset or.
Isaca practitioner guide for ssh with contributions from practitioners, specialists. Well see how to add other resources like cpu, memory, file. This has been updated and expanded to 110 packages see solaris 10 u11 companion cddvd. To transition from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11, you must either do a fresh installation of oracle solaris 11 or migrate oracle solaris 10 os instances or zones to an oracle solaris 10 zone on an oracle solaris 11 system. Solaris 10 live upgrade zones starter patch bundle.
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. When installing on solaris version 10 or 11 running on the x8664 architecture, use the following packages. One zone is running oracle database and banner application together. Two of them are running solaris 9 and the remaining system running solaris 8. Apparently these are free binary downloads from sun. Solaris 10 910 u9 added physical to zone migration, zfs triple parity raidz and oracle solaris auto registration. The rest of the patches included in solaris 10 509 are either released or in the process of being released over the next week or so. Companion cd packages are also available via the unix packages website, including the latest versions built for solaris 10 update 11 for sparc and x86. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Part iii of software management best practices for oracle solaris 11 express. Install solaris 10 by using the iso file the unix and.
Solaris 10 with solaris 9 containers oracle community. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. See here for information and here for the download remember to accept the license agreement at the top. Even i would like to play with solaris 11 by upgrading existing solaris 10 systems. The below example of firmware upgrade from 1100 to 1116 procedure on m9000 platform. For example, if your current os is the solaris 9 release and you want to upgrade to the solaris 10 9 10 release, you need to install the solaris live upgrade packages from the solaris 10 9 10 release. The tectia software can be installed into the global and local zones. We wont know until op says why he needs such an old os.
How to installupgrade netbackup client on solaris vox. Xcp stands for xscf extended system control facility control package. Solaris 10 is guaranteed to be fully compatible with 8, so this may be a nonissue. The solaris 9 os supports multiple paths for io devices, such as scsi and fiber channelaccessible storage, for load balancing and failover.
Oracles ultimate goal is to make the solaris patching like redhat linux satellite server patching model. Home java solaris 10 11 solaris zones how to install java in solaris 11 or solaris 11 zones. As you all know oracle solaris 11 is available for production and most of the customers are preferred to have solaris 11 on their datacenters. As in the case with the global zone, a new zone be is created for each nonglobal zone during the update for updates that require a system reboot. To avoid repeating steps 1 and 2 the next time this type of install is done, save a copy of this tar file for future use. I had never even tried this until a user asked me to do it, so i tried and it just hung there after the part where it reads the rules. Creating and using differential flash archives in a live upgrade environment. This tar file can be used to install netbackup on any solaris 2. The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os.
Im here presenting the steps worklogs that i gathered while i performed the live upgrade of solaris 9 operating environment to solaris 10 operating environment. All the reading i have found so far indicates that it is not possible to upgrade a solaris 9 branded zone to. Solaris 10 910 update 9 released oracle solaris blog. Solaris 10 9 10 u9 added physical to zone migration, zfs triple parity raidz and oracle solaris auto registration. Upgrade list for solaris 10 the endpoint upgrade list solaris 10 analysis is enhanced to retrieve solaris 10 endpoints that require an operating system update by checking for the updates against the recent published solaris os release and the kernel patch update. If you are planning to move the solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you.
The xcp firmware procedure exclusively runs on the active xscf unit. Upgrade planning oracle solaris 10 910 installation guide. Tectia server includes support for zones on solaris 10 and 11. Ok, im completely new to solaris and i have a sun blade 100 workstation with solaris 8 on it. How to set change timezone in sun solaris techonia.
To transition from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11, you must either do a fresh installation of oracle solaris 11 or migrate oracle solaris 10 os instances or zones to an oracle solaris 10 zone on an oracle solaris. Can it be done, and if so, pointers to a documented process would be helpful. Guidelines for using solaris live upgrade with nonglobal zones planning creating a boot environment when a nonglobal zone is on a separate file system. The post describes the creation of a branded zone on solaris 10 global zone. He could also create partitions and run all 4 as if they were on the metal. Oracle solaris 10 allows you to create a solaris 9 and solaris 8 as branded zone on sparc environment and not supported on x86. May i know is it possible to install the solaris by using this iso file directly. Our current production server is oraclesun t5220 running solaris 10 os with 2 zones. We would like to do the patch first and then the upgrade, but the problem is getting the down time from the client. As you know there is no direct method to upgrade the solaris 10 to solaris 11, most of the clients would like to run their existing solaris 10 zones as branded zone under solaris 11 without upgrading the guest operating system for time being. Booting from that dvd ensure that the install procedure recognizes the existing installation and offers you the upgrade route.
Hi friends, we have a solaris machine running 10 update 3 quote. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Upgrade a trial to the websphere application server product. Liveupgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 sysadmins journey. In the last article, we have seen that how to update solaris 11 from oracle support repository directly. Guidelines for using solaris live upgrade with nonglobal. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Solaris live upgrade and upgrade planning september 2010. It will work with releases of solaris 10, update 4 and higher. Upgrade planning oracle solaris 10 1 installation guide. Hi gurus recently i had download the iso installer sol 10 u8gasparcdvd. Thishanalysis availableafrom the patcheskforisolaris site. Branded zones these are solaris 8 or solaris 9 zones on the solaris 10 global zones. Understanding solaris zones and solaris live upgrade.
No data is ever deleted, and to roll back to solaris 9, all you need is one command and a reboot. For example, if you are running the solaris 7 release you can upgrade to any solaris 8 or solaris 9 release, but not a solaris 10 release. As we all know that we cant directly upgrade from solaris 10 to solaris 11. With ips, updating oracle solaris zones is a trivial operation, and in most cases, it happens automatically during a package update of the global zone. Solaris 8 or solaris 9 or linux containers can be built after installing appropriate brandz packages and patches, depending on the release of solaris 10 you are using.
Earlier solaris 8, 9, 10 releases are available in our iso archives. Their concern was that potential zones patching issues in versions of solaris prior to solaris 10 807 update 4 meant that they needed to assign senior. But from oracle solaris 11 onwards, when you perform the update,system will automatically move to major version without any additional efforts. I need to upgrade my solaris 9 update 7 to solaris 9 update 9 for a specific requi the unix and linux forums.
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