That last number in the fun facts is interesting because that number is a small subset of applications that will run on oracle solaris 11. In fact, most patching techniques require systems and disks to be taken of. Solaris zfs of solaris 10 operating system function. Mirror disk di solaris 10 share and learn all knowledge. Dec 04, 2017 with oracle solaris 10 premier support ending on january 31, 2018, weve been getting questions about the different support options for oracle solaris 10 going forward. Patching mirrored systems with the solaris live upgrade software introduction applying operating system patches is often time consuming and disruptive. Compare the system response to the platform group column in table 2. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software. The grubbased installation program of the solaris 10 106 software and. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties. Use the solaris volume manager gui or the metattach command to expand the capacity of a mirror.
Attached is the step for solaris 8, i have try on solaris 10. I am reading the manuals and trying to figure out if it easier than doing this with veritas volume manager and if so how to do it. For example, to check for sun platforms that support the solaris 10 environment, use the command uname m. Svm to create a mirror of the os svm is covered in chapter 10. Jump start a raid configuration solaris10 yuvalinux.
Mount the mirror root disk and replace the svm related entries in the etcvfstab and etcsystem to prevent svm to start on boot from the root mirror disk. Csw community software available through is wonderful repository with hundreds of software packages for solaris 8, solaris 9 and solaris 10. Adding a physical disk as a mirror to an existing zpool. On a side note, if youre using software raid its about a million times easier to setup a zfs pool, if you have solaris 10 1106 or later installed. Live upgrade commands are differnet in solaris 11be commands compare to solaris 10 lu commands. This document describes the steps to mirror the solaris operating system x86 boot disk using solaris volume manager on solaris 10 x86 update 1 106 release or later the reason for this is that grub was introduced with solaris 10 x86 update 1 106 release. However, zfs is so much better and easier to setup. When you reinstall, the boot partition is no longer recreated. As expected, the new pool mpool is about half the capacity of dstripe. One great thing about solaris x86 and sparc is that some really cool disk management software is built right in. If the volume is set up as a raw device for database management software or. In step 7, using newfs i 8192 devmdrdskd3 only enough demonstration, the others can be configured same. Use the solaris volume manager gui or the metaparam command to change the options for a specific raid 1 volume. Root and mirror disks, are here referred to as primary and secondary disks respectively.
Scopeforemost describe how to do this on solaris 10 606. Lets us see how we can encapsulate and mirror a root disk under solaris volume manager. Therefore, if the x86 boot partition already exists in the system, delete this partition with the fdisk command and then reinstall the solaris software. Solaris 10 and software mirroring oracle community. Configuring boot disks with solaris volume manager software october 2002 by erik. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in. The pool dstripe is a concatenation of two disks of the same capacity, and mpool is a mirror of a disk of the same capacity. Jump start a raid configuration solaris 10contents introduction 1. When i run the command i believe is correct below i get an error. Requirements and preparation for installing the solaris 10.
How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager. Solaris 10 606 includes a new data management feature, zfs zettabyte file system. The metainit m command creates the oneway mirror from the d51 raid0 volume. Once complete, youll reboot to the upgraded version of the os. This design is possible only because zfs integrates file system and device management in such a way that the file systems metadata has enough information about the underlying data redundancy model to handle variablewidth raid stripes.
I am trying to mirror c1t0d0 to c1t1d0 in solaris volume manager. Disk mirroring using solaris disk manager raid 1 volumes. Configuring solaris volume manager software oracle. I wouldnt say solaris volume manager is one of the best volume managers out there in the market, but its sure still used in many production setups. Also, make sure you have enough disk space for solaris and all of the packages you plan to install. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by lsof. You need to fetch the correct pkgutil software package from the master mirror site at thus. Bigfix provides the following tasks on the patching support site to help reduce system downtime and service interruptions due to patching. If your system is running a previous version of solaris, you can determine your system type using the uname m command. Upon termination, you will cease use of, and destroy, software and confirm compliance in writing to sun. Mar 22, 20 jump start a raid configuration solaris 10contents introduction 1. Need a procedure document to do root disk mirroring in solaris volume manager for solaris 10. The system will respond with the platform group and the platform name for your system. The texinfo class action script for csw packages common.
I need to upgrade this system to solaris 10 update 5. If you also have d10, which is a mirror of var with submirrors d11 and d12, you. The final mirrored root disk setup should look like. Im going to attempt to answer all your questions here. The following command creates a zfs mirrored pool called mpool with a mirrored vdev. How to check the status of mirrors and submirrors solaris. Once the reboot is complete you can attach the other drive to the mirror. Solaris 10 and software mirroring 807557 dec 15, 2006 5. Id like to add another hard drive and mirror this boot drive.
Use the solaris volume manager gui or the metainit command to create a mirror from unused slices. Chapter 10 raid 1 mirror volumes tasks solaris volume. Svm root encapsulation and mirroring sparc the geek diary. Raidz is the worlds first softwareonly solution to the raid5 write hole. Name state read write cksum syspool online 0 0 0 mirror0 online 0 0 0 c8t0d0s0 online 0 0 0. To start with here is what i laid out my filesystem to be when i initially installed solaris 10. Solaris 10 and software mirroring 807557 dec 16, 2006 9. One great thing about solaris x86 and sparc is that some really cool disk management software is built right in, and its called svm, or solaris volume manager. Solaris 10 hardware mirroring 807557 feb 8, 2010 11.
Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Installing precompiled gnu screen package on solaris 10. Software become, or in suns reasonable opinion likely to become, the subject of a claim of intellectual property infringement or trade secret press enter to read the text type q to quit misappropriation. Create a mirror from an existing file system, use the solaris volume manager gui or. The software modules employ a collection of services running under service management facility smf that need to be stopped before patching the avs software. Hi friends, i have one x86 server x4600, solaris 10 is runnung in that with update 4. Solaris live upgrade utilizes solaris volume manager svm to create a mirror of the os svm is covered in chapter 10. How to mirror file systems other than root that cannot be unmounted. Patching mirrored systems with the solaris live upgrade software. Solaris disksuite mirror i just documented mine for solaris 8.
Use the solaris volume manager gui or the metainit command to create a mirror from an existing file system. Explination about raid levels in solaris 10 describing raid and solaris volume manager software the solaris volume manager software can be run from the command line or a graphical user interface gui tool to simplify system administration tasks on storage devices. Mirroed root zpool cant be split and its not supported. The other two drives in the system i am using for a database, and so, will configure software raid on them.
After that lets attach volume d11 is a submirror of the mirrored volume d10. In preparation for installing solaris 10 on a system, use table 2. The zfs file system, added in the solaris 10 606 release, has its own integrated volume management capabilities. With software volume management and a little preparation, it is possible to. Armed with the mighty pkgget tool, this is definitely one of the easiest and quicked ways to get new software installed without having to compile anything to meet dependencies. Creating a raid1 volume solaris volume manager administration. This article focuses on the solaris 9 operating environment, solaris volume manager software, and veritas volume manager 3. The solution was seccheck a modular hostsecurity scanning utility. Patching mirrored systems with the solaris live upgrade.
Download filefort backup several other programs try to install during setup, and you must manually deselect them if you dont want them on your computer. Configuring solaris volume manager software oracle solaris. If you have the space or if you are using mirroring and can split the. Find answers to disk mirroring in solaris 10 from the expert community at.
Install sun storage common array manager software cam di. If, for any reason, it becomes necessary to mount a solaris volume manager mirrored metadevice while booted from media, for example, using boot net s or boot cdrom s, use the following steps as a guide. Once this is done, the pool will no longer be accessible on older software versions. It describe how to partition and mirror the system disk, and how to create and maintain a backup system disk. Disk mirroring in solaris 10 solutions experts exchange. Rhel 5 booting stuck grub loading stage2 press any key to continue. After january 31, there will be two types of support available for oracle solaris 10.
Oracle solaris 10 support explained oracle solaris blog. Multipath detec hba otomatis nama dari c0t0d0 akan berubah stmsboot e 2. To use the solaris volume manager to mirror the root file system, the file system must use the single solaris fdisk partition. Patching mirrored systems with the solaris live upgrade software sun microsystems, inc. Because this system is a v440, im using the hardware mirroring for the os. All the zfs root systems should use liveupgrade for os patching and rollback operation. The programs were ported to all versions of solaris from 2. Solaris volume manager svm how to mirror the boot root. If problems are encountered with the upgrade, you can boot back to the previous version, significantly reducing any downtime. How to mount a solaris volume manager mirror while booted from media. The disksuite product is found on the solaris 8 2of2 cd.
The final mirrored root disk setup should look like the one shown in figure below. Basic mirroring with solaris disksuite brad the mad. Earlier solaris versions are not covered by this document. Solaris volume manager svm how to repair a needs maintenance metadevice in a oneway mirror doc id 1008147. Svm root encapsulation and mirroring sparc by admin. Zfs is an innovative file system that provides you with almost unlimited data capacity1, simple data management and a highprofile data protection mechanism.
Mirror management plays a key role in managing system downtime and risk when installing critical software patches or upgrades. The mirror creation is 11 but not resynchronization c. Software raid in solaris 10 ars technica openforum. In zfs, you no need to break the mirror disks for os patching. How to update the solaris 10 update 4 to solaris 10 update 5. Use one of the following methods to check mirror or submirror status. Toturial kali digunakan untuk mirror disk pada solaris 10, yang fungsinya sama seperti raid 1 mirror. This applies only to the solaris 10 operating system.
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