Jul 21, 2018 solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 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. Oct 26, 2011 solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. 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 x86. First, you arent using solaris 11 packaging ips but the legacy svr4 packaging.
How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. The only way is then simply to remove the old package and install the newer one, which is what rpm u is doing under the hood anyway. When upgrading the operating system a new boot environment is created and updated. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Hi folks, the solaris 10 811 update 10 patchset is now available from my oracle support. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. In this example, a new boot environment is created by using the lucreate command on a system that is running the solaris 9 release. With the release of the oracle solaris 10 1008 operating system, oracle solaris live upgrade is integrated with the oracle solaris zfs. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. The media contains an operating system upgrade image. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. If we install from scratch, it is called initial installation, or we can upgrade solaris 7 or higher version tosolaris 10. To apply the latest sru on an old os version, you need to update to the latest version. How to update solaris 10 to be safe from shellshock bug.
Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. The following example shows updating to oracle solaris 11. Upgrading to oracle solaris 11 11 11 is a multistep process due to the requirement that certain system packages must be updated first in order to achieve a successful update for the remaining system packages. Previously, you could perform a live upgrade or use the patchadd command to update your be. Managing solaris patches by using the patchadd command. My question is about the patching package management. The new boot environment is upgraded to the solaris 10 910 release by using the luupgrade command. 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. With solaris live upgrade, you create an identical copy of the running operating system os. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 sparc update patch bundle. Im not very familiar with smpatch as i and my team primarily use the basic solaris patch utilities, patchadd and patchrm. The upgraded boot environment is activated by using the luactivate command. Solaris live upgrade consists of a set of tools that enable users to create an alternate boot environment that is a mirror copy of the current boot partition and then patch the newly created boot partition prior to making it live. Dec 21, 2015 basics first oracle solaris 11 includes a powerful upgrade feature based on ips image packaging system and zfs.
Oracle solaris live upgrade is a useful tool and strategy for minimizing downtime and risk when upgrading or patching systems. Upgrade to solaris 10 problem servers general discussion. If any software on the system has been obsoleted in oracle solaris 11. Example of upgrading with solaris live upgrade oracle. Provide the proxy server information for your site, along with a user account that has access to the local area network through which the server is connecting.
If they are, then upgrade to a release which provides them. First you need to do is, cek what the configuration of the filesystem. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. System shutdown to single user and patch add attempted which gets the following. Applying the patchset is not the same as upgrading to the solaris update release, as the patchset will not include any new packages introduced in the solaris update or any obsolete packages deleted in the update. This is the step how to upgrade os solaris 10 update 11. Ive thus put together a streamlined procedure of how to. Boot to the boot environment be that was created in the previous step. When upgrading the operating system a new boot environment is. Differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 for system administrators. It would be nice to be able to use live upgrade to patch the system as this is one of the things for which it can be used but we have a catch 22 situation where we need the patches for live upgrade to work and live upgrade to install the patches that way.
I need your expert help, what is the best practice and simple way to migrateport from current server to new solaris 11 server. After the latest update version is released, the old sru version is no longer released. Then you need to break the svm and edit the vfstab. System administrators can patchupgrade a system image rapidly without impacting the boot environment needed by the solaris os to run. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. Upgrading to oracle solaris 11 1111 is a multistep process due to the requirement that certain system packages must be updated first in order to achieve a successful update for the remaining system packages. If you are running the solaris 10 initial 305 release, you can install the following patch to enable the use of commands that accept the r option for creation of an alternate root path. The concrete use case is that we have some old softwareand its hotfix packages developed for solaris 10, now we would like to move them to solaris 11. This page has all the details for upgrading server from solaris 11. How to upgrade solaris 10 update 11 by using live upgrade. Upgrade to solaris 10 problem annihilannic mis 11 jan 07 05.
How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 eli. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches. To see the list of packages that will be removed on upgrade, use the pkg update nv command. Upgrade any systems that are not running at least the solaris 10 106 os to the solaris 10 106 release.
There can be different way in which we may need to install solaris 10. Where a user wishes to apply the live upgrade patch, this needs to be done manually with the patchadd command. Jumpstart installation changed to automated install the js2ai command a command to convert a jumpstart file to an ai manifest is provided. Patch install downtime requirements oracle solaris blog. The solaris upgrade of the boot environment is complete. Oct 05, 2011 applying the patchset is not the same as upgrading to the solaris update release, as the patchset will not include any new packages introduced in the solaris update or any obsolete packages deleted in the update. Managing boot environments transitioning from oracle. Checking for existence of previously scheduled live upgrade requests. The oracle solaris 11 media pack is available for free for those registered with my oracle support. 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. The infodoc has now been updated to show the required patches. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary.
Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek. Before starting with upgrade it is good to check and fix any issues with current system and environment. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software. Logged into my solaris server in ssh and tried patchadd 19689293 and it just says it cannot find the patch. System administrators can patch upgrade a system image rapidly without impacting the boot environment needed by the solaris os to run. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. 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. Please see this blog posting for lists of the new packages introduced in each solaris update to see if any of them are relevant to. Solaris 11 does not have the concept of update patch.
Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. On october 31st i upgraded the system to solaris 11. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. Differences between solaris 11 and solaris 10 oracle. The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os. Mar 15, 2015 provide the proxy server information for your site, along with a user account that has access to the local area network through which the server is connecting. Installing packages on solaris 11 use the install packages by using pkg task to install and update packages on solaris 11 and later endpoints that are using local repositories or repositories that are provided by oracle or other publishers. Use the install packages by using pkg task to install and update packages on solaris 11 and later endpoints that are using local repositories or repositories that are provided by oracle or other publishers. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade. You can look for solaris 11 chat sheet here which will give you solaris 11 general administration. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology.
The documentation from oracle is your best friend when it comes to solaris questions the short answer is that pkg update or pkg update accept will update solaris to the most recent packages available from the ips repositories you have enabled on your system the long answer. I wanted to do this as soon as 0807 came out but sun for some reason hadnt released the patches to solaris 10 to enable this to work see infodoc 72099. Solaris live upgrade reduces the amount of downtime involved in patching and reduces risk by providing fallback capability if necessary. Recently ive been asked to upgrade and patch the system running with solaris 10 u3 with vxvm 4. May 19, 2009 in fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. I am currently upgrading my solaris 10 0606 installation to solaris 10 0807, using liveupgrade. Solaris live upgrade solaris 9 to solaris 10 my digital. Solaris 10 811 update 10 patchset now available oracle. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade.
Actually, i had posted this kind of question before, but i really want to know about procedure of openssl upgrade from source. With the latter, you cannot upgrade a custom package. Using live upgrade to apply patches to running solaris 10. Now i was provided some old packages within that there are hardcoded codes written with commands like patchadd, so anyway i can make them work with solaris 11. If theyre not, then applying the patchset may be a reasonable alternative to update your solaris system. This article describes some of the new features for basic oracle solaris 11.
Do we have to upgrade current t5220 solaris 10 server to 11 then migrateport all data and zones to new t52 solaris 11 server. Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased. Solaris live upgrade u7 to u11 using lucreate 1 prerequisites. Solaris live upgrade avoids having to reboot or take the system down to singleuser mode. But you cant upgrade the inactive be to solaris 10 as we desire. Jul 12, 2016 this is the step how to upgrade os solaris 10 update 11. In fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. The decision to apply the live upgrade patch is left to the user, this is done to accommodate users who wish to independently manage the version of the live upgrade patch on their system.
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