Creating a boot environment provides a method of copying critical file systems from the active boot environment to a new boot environment. Id shut down the nonglobal zones, boot to single user and apply the patch cluster. On systems that are running a solaris release that is not zones aware, using the patchadd command, or any command that accepts the r option to specify an alternate root path for a global zone that has nonglobal zones installed, does not work you can use of the r option to add and remove software packages and patches, if. Liveupgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 sysadmins journey. Check article 185800 for procedures to locate the mirror boot disk in eeprom, and to boot from the mirror boot disk. Managing boot environments in solaris 11 the geek diary. Note this procedure provides commands for the solaris 10 807 release. Apply the latest available solaris 10 update release during the next major. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate. If your os is update5 before, it may be failed for boot to copy bootblk of install mediaupdate6 later.
Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. In order to overcome that solaris having the feature called live upgrade. If you cannot boot the system, you need to copy bootblk on root, not madia. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Using live upgrade to apply patches to running solaris 10.
Windows started delivering windows 10 continually, with no major future interruptions planned. Patching and upgrading your cluster managing your oracle. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate root path. Installing solaris 10 booted from a linux server there are a couple of issues i had to struggle with when i installed solaris 10 on a sparc host. Live upgrade with solaris 10 issues solutions experts. Updates, patches and late breaking news for netbackup.
How to boot from solaris os cddvd when system fails to. The promise of ksplice and rebootless patching for solaris was. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Unable to patch system target boot environment not. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Before the patching starts preferably 1 day before, we use to run a script that collects system information like vfstab, veritas information etc. Ignore this article if a mirror boot disk is indeed available. You can also upgrade the solaris cluster software by patching it with the patches. First login as root user or use su to become a root. Oracle white paperhow to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade.
I think the whole root zone will need the patch cluster applied separately. Apply patches and upgrades to an alternate boot environment. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. We take backup of the critical system folderfiles and put it on a different server. How to have a backup boot when applying patches to solaris. The solaris 10 0508 patch bundle will not suit everyone. A further benefit that only solaris 10 extended support customers will receive is access to newly created cpu patchsets for solaris 10 thru the extended support period. Solaris live upgrade greatly simplifies the upgrade and patching process. Customized solaris installation and patching experience. I applied the patch bundle to the active boot environment. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation.
If problems occur with the newly patched copy, you can fall back to the original os. It is also important to know whether the solaris kernel you are patching is 32 or 64bit. Booting from an alternate boot disk if the root disk is encapsulated and mirrored, you can use one of its mirrors to boot the system if the primary boot disk fails. From solaris 10 1008 update6 bootblk was changed, corresponding zfs boot. Unable to patch system target boot environment not identified as solaris 10 may 17, 2012 this issue will occur becuase of missing packages sunwcsr and sunwcsu. Since were upgrading from solaris 9 to solaris 10, well be upgrading from ufs to ufs file systems. Solaris operating environment boot camp puts the answers right at your fingertips. Physical address of target disk is required which can be had by showdisk command on ok. Failing to specify a path causes the system to try and boot from the net. It displays the system information such as the model name, the boot prom version, the memory, the ethernet addresses, and the host identification number id. Managing boot environments transitioning from oracle.
The device is not a root device for any boot environment. Note you can use the lucreate command with the m option to specify which file systems and the number of file systems to be created in the new boot environment. Commonly used open boot prompt obp commands okbanner. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method using solaris live upgrade lu to patch cpu patch cluster. Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command.
I dont know if those fixes are going to work on the longterm, but solaris 10 is far too complicated for a unix newbie like me. When you intend only to patch an inactive boot environment, you might need to verify that. On a sun sparc r system, booting from an alternate boot disk requires eeprom settings to be changed. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris. Mount the parent boot environment root slice to some directory like mnt. Oracle solaris treats the storage as a pool, and as long as you have space in the pool for the oracle solaris snapshot, you can use oracle solaris os and oracle solaris. For future patches i want to apply the patches and if they fail to boot then have a backup prior to the patch to boot to. How to create and activate new boot environment in oracle. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. The oracle solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and. First alternative solaris 10 zfs migration from ufs example. This is a brief example of migrating an existing ufsbased solaris 10 system to use. 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. He spoke of resolving scaling problems, not experienced under.
Reboot a solaris unix system last updated july 6, 2010 in categories solarisunix. The fixlets for oracle recommended patch clusters and. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. The following table provides a quick reference to the recent solaris 10 patchsets that have been released, including details of the support contract required to access them. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. The new installcluster script provides better integration with solaris live upgrade as the user can now specify the live upgrade alternate boot environment to patch by name. Proceed with the creation of alternate boot environment abe. The main advantages of live upgrade is minimizing the downtime and providing the system admin to revert the original os in case of any patching failure. You have more than one command option that you can use.
Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Where mnt is the mount point for the boot environment. Previously, you could perform a live upgrade or use the patchadd command to update your be. In order to create our new boot environment, we will use the lucreate command. You can use the beadm command to unmount an existing boot environment. Boot from the solaris failsafe or boot in single user mode from solaris install cd or network. All mount points are returned to their states prior to being mounted. After installing the october 2011 recommended patch bundle on a solaris 10 the host fails to boot. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Live upgrade allows the system admin to upgrade or patch a running system with the only downtime being the server reboot once the upgrade or patch is complete.
Mounting and updating an inactive boot environment. Installing this patch set to an alternate boot environment first requires the. How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. H ow do i reboot a solaris unix machine or server using the command shell prompt.
Note that bug fixes for some thirdparty or communitybased software delivered as part of oracle solaris may be provided through package upgrades rather than patches. Many of our solaris 10 systems are old and filesystems like var and usr usrlocal and opt etc are all dumped under root filesystem in the global zone. The fix for cr 7058265 is expected to be delivered with a kernel patch in the near future. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. Though i have enough space in root filesystem of both zones, everytime i run installcluster, it fails with complaining less space but in alternate be. Patching source code to build a solaris 10 package youtube. In other words, oracle patched the remote root hole now dubbed cve20173623 back in january 2012 for solaris 10, and solaris 11 is not affected. I had a hard drive failure on my solaris 10 sparc v440 server. When you unmount a boot environment, the zones in that environment are also unmounted. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt. Installation took a total of 3 hours and 58 minutes plus 3 reboots see the patch bundle readme for an explanation of the reboots when patching an active boot environment. Improvements to solaris 10 recommended and sun alert patch. Attempting to correct problemsdetected with file systems for boot environment. For every application that is installed on your server, you should make sure that you have the correct scripts in etcrc x.
We also ensure the solaris dvd is inserted into the server, just in case we have to boot off from the dvd. We have performed patching for solaris os under zfs with zones using live. Solaris tm live upgrade can be used both as an upgrade tool and a patching tool for the solaris operating system os. Hi i have a sun m4000 with 1 global and 4 nonglobal zones running solaris. The new installcluster script performs space checking prior to installing each patch, and will halt if it believes there is insufficient space to complete the. System administrators can patchupgrade a system image rapidly without impacting the boot environment needed by the solaris os to run. I have a doc about how to live patching in solaris 9 enviroment, should be similar to solaris 10. The boot disk are two mirrored disk with solaris volume manager. Therefore, if you are using live upgrade to upgrade a system from the solaris 8 or solaris 9 os to the oracle solaris 10 os, you must first activate the oracle solaris 10 boot environment before patching. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. For example, a single use of the m option specifies where to put all the file systems. Normally cpu cluster patching for solaris os have taken an hour to complete, it increase the maintenance downtime window. System administrators can maintain multiple bes on their systems, and each be can have different software versions installed. In this article will show you how to create and activate new boot environment in oracle solaris 11.
I recently faced a curious problem when trying to patch an alternate boot environment created with live upgrade on solaris 10. In case the mirrored boot disk is not available, then boot from solaris os cddvd and unencapsulate the boot disk, before booting the system to multiuser mode. Upgrade issues and bugs oracle solaris 10 811 release notes. It can be done by using beadm command to create and activate the new boot environment which is cloned from the active boot environment.
It seems that one option used is to break the mirror prior to the patch. You must specify the exact number of file systems you want to create by repeating this option. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. This testing isolates any postupgrade problems to the upgrade and patches. Ive tried setting the boot parameters in the openboot prom but nothing i seem to do effects the boot. Creating a new boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. Find answers to live upgrade with solaris 10 issues from the expert community at experts exchange. The root file system is mirrored with in the internal disks and the home filesystems are on nfs mounted external storage. You can use the following commands in sequence to mount the be. To boot the zones in the alternate boot environment abe. You first create an alternative boot environment with the upgraded. I am in process of applying solaris recommended patch cluster via live upgrade. In oracle solaris 11, the pkg update command is used to update a be, or you can use the beadm command set to create, display, and remove bes tools for managing boot environments. Also, since we are upgrading from one disk to another, we will copy all filesystems from c1t0d0 to c1t1d0 no filesystems will be shared.
Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment on solaris10. Sanity reboot, to ensure server is cleanly booting without issues. In case system can not boot from primary disk and it is needed to make another boot disk to access the data, nvalias command is used. I dont have license or support plan for solaris yet the os is preinstalled on my server. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Drawing on nearly 30 years of sys admin experience, david rhodes and dominic butler cover every facet of solaris oe system administration, from simple user management on standalone servers to building and managing a fully networked enterprise environment. This document provides procedures to create a copy of. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris live upgrade is an excellent way to manage solaris operating system upgrades and patches.
Solaris 10 0508 update 5 patch bundle oracle solaris blog. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. 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. Solaris live upgrade procedure for patching blogger. I want to use patching to inactive boot environment method and need urgent assistance. Boot environment be a be is a bootable instance of an oracle solaris 11 operating system plus any other application software packages installed into that image. Although i initially though it was a lu problem, the solution is finally related to the patches to be applied and the way a. You could now use luupgrade or smpatch smpatch currently has issues.
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