The solaris 10 system administrator certification exam prep 2 is the ideal book for both new and seasoned system administrators. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to. Configure svm on both nodes create the 25mb partition on the boot disk s7 create the svm database replica metadb afc 3 c0d0s7 c0t0d0s7. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. Remember that soft partitions are logical divisions of a physical slice partition on the disk.
This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Live upgrade will invoke the patch utilities on the active boot partition to patch the inactive boot partition. Creating soft partitions how to create a soft partition before you begin. In disksuite or solaris volume manager, an extra step must be taken when physically replacing a disk that contained soft partitions. This book uses the term slice, but some solaris documentation and programs might refer to a slice as a partition to avoid confusion, solaris documentation tries to distinguish between fdisk partitions which are supported only on solaris intel platform edition and the divisions within the solaris fdisk partition, which might be. Many customers pick and choose amongst the thousands of patches available for solaris 10, for example. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010 how can i uninstall the patch. I would like to increase the size of the partition by reducing exporthome. Everyone who develops software for this platform will want to make sure that the application users are using the optimal solaris 11 infrastructure. For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. By matthew cheek, february 26, 2003 the sun solaris operating environment oe is a mature implementation of unix that runs both on sun sparc and intel x86 architecture hardware. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris.
This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. Root now needs to be 8gb because patches get the size over 4gb. How to resize enlarge grow a nonlvm ext4 partition. Sun clusters adding new disk and extending filesystem. If you patch with all current patches as of a certain date you might have the equivalent of a newer release even. How to increase jvm size for solaris 10 sparc operating system. A soft partition is made up of one or more extents. Btw, we have asked to bring the system down to do a ufsdump before we do anything. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Soft partitioning was introduced in solaris 8 with svm product patch 10869306. Better to build a soft partition and add as needed to that. Solaris volume manager svm how to create soft partitions. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. I want to patch one side of the mirror and keep intact another side safe in case of.
Soft partitioning allows for a disk to be subdivided into many partitions which are controlled and maintained by software, thereby removing the limitation of the number of partitions on a disk. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4.
With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. You can expand raid0 stripe and concatenation volumes, raid1 mirror volumes, and raid5 volumes and soft partitions. You must manually expand the file system with the growfs command. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. I dont think that solaris will automatically grow the file system as this cannot be set anywhere within the os. This sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all. If you do not have another temporary disk that allows you to copy. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Expanding a file system using the growfs command solaris. Perform this procedure to facilitate back up or to increase the partition size available to services or applications.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. Sun has released a security patch addressing the following issues. But in solaris 10, all the standard libraries are in lib and solaris 10 automatically falls back to. Svm enables you to increase the available storage space of an existing volume by. When no other logical volumes have been built on a soft partition, you can add space. It offers classroomstyle training by one of the best and wellknown authors in the solaris world, bill calkins.
Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Solaris live upgrade to resize filesystems unix my first love. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. But still df output shows the capacity as 93% and i am not able to install patches in the machine. A volume, regardless if it is used for a file system, application, or database, can be expanded. There is no easy way to increase the size of a solaris root partition. Verify you have the latest patch sets ref info doc 72099 on sunsolve iii. Growing a soft partition and resizing filesystem in.
After a volume that contains a ufs file system is expanded meaning that more space is added, you also need to expand the file system in order to recognize the added space. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. Managing local disk devices in solaris softpanorama.
Solaris 10 enables logging of the filesystem by default. Creating and changing solaris fdisk partitions oracle. Create soft partitions to move soft partitions to, use block size to match size exactly. The active partition is partition whose operating system will be booted by default at system startup. A volume can be expanded whether it is used for a file system, application, or database. Modifying and adding disk partitions for replicated data. Interesting facts about soft partitions soft partitioning was introduced in solaris 8 with svm product patch 10869306. Growing mirrored metadevices online solaris 10 patching. Solaris filesystem configuration ufs, zfs, disk partitioning, raid. Solaris fdisk partitions must begin on cylinder boundaries. So, you can expand raid 0 stripe and concatenation volumes, raid 1 mirror volumes, and raid 5 volumes as well as soft partitions. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. I want to install solaris 10 recommended patch cluster on it, but not sure, how to go ahead with procedure.
Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. Increasing the size of a replicated data partition on a virtual disk on a solaris node. This is having zfs filesystem and 10 sparseroot zones are there. This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exams for system administrators, the 310200 and the 310202.
I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Because i have free space in front of the current ext4 partition, not at the back. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
So unless vbox can issue the correct grow command to solaris then it is doubtful this will happen, also the root file system has to be grown offline i. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. This section describes how to increase the size of a replicated data partition created by the solaris volume manager. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. How to expand a soft partition solaris volume manager. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10.
Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. You can concatenate a volume that contains an existing file system while the file system is in use. Check the configuration guidelines for soft partitions use one of the following methods to create a soft partition. Maintaining soft partitions solaris volume manager administration. Herein i will present the procedure on how to add a new disk to an svm which is part of sun cluster 3. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained softpanorama. Create a soft partition d30 on the metadevice d7 metainit d30 p d7 10g put a lesystem on the above device echo y newfs devmdrdskd30 grow soft partition d30 by another 10 gig metattach d30 10g grow the lesystem on the above device currently mounted on u01. Choose the soft partition that you want to expand, then choose action. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date.
Concepts of metasets in svm and multipating in solaris. This replicated partition is called a soft partition. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. An extent describes the parts of the physical disk that make up the soft partition. 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. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Solaris 11 is public available and the ips package management is setting new standards in solaris administration and version management. Creating partition on unpartitioned space in sun solaris 10. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. The solaris 8 and solaris 9 patch utilities are unaware of oracle solaris zones, service management facility smf, and other enhancements in the oracle solaris 10 os. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a.
As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Soft partition configuration information is written in two places. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has been qualified. While installation it has taken a default filesystem size as 1.
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