The book covers the topics resource management, oracle solaris zones, and oracle solaris 10 zones solaris10 branded zones. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. If running a release prior to solaris 10 10 09, download patch 11925466 or later revision sparc or 11925566 or later revision x86. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently. When creating a zone in oracle solaris 11 the network interface is configured as a default so the command above right is less complex and only two elements are required to create a basic oracle solaris 11 zone. I have a doubts on step 8 specially can someone clear my step 8 doubts or if anything wrong between step 1 to step 9 please correct that also as i have pretty good idea about step 10 mean patching in solaris 10. A system can then be configured to run several zones which will make it look like different systems on the network some info from a. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade the last time i looked at it, a few years back now, it was rubbish.
The oracle solaris 10 patch utility patches are 119254% sparc and 119255% x86x64. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Yesterday i faced an issue, where in i was unable to login into ngzs after kernel patching. Jan 24, 2015 traditionally we will use lsof command to determine what process is using the particular port. If you think solaris patching is a complete nightmare, have a bit of spare time on your hands dont worry, you can still check emails etc and really want to get up speed on suns best practices for patching on solaris 10, then check out the free solaris 10 patching best practices ws2700s10 training course. I thought it was about time i took another look, since a lot of the updates in opensolaris were looking good. How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. As of solaris 10 10 09, when a zone stops, the default route is not deleted. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run an oracle solaris release. You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle jeff.
Set the number of nonglobal zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etcpatchnf. Alternatively, for oracle solaris cluster systems, a rolling upgrade of the cluster nodes may be performed. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. No additional hardware is required for a zone, just some disk space. Now that we know how to create nonglobal zones in solaris, its probably time to learn some basics of zones configuration. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle. Branded zones are solaris 8 or solaris 9 containers created in a solaris 10 global. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. Patching procedure in solaris 10 with sun cluster having solaris zone hi gurus i am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 sol10 u11 to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same i should follow. Zone is a virtual machine in solaris which isolates the processes. We have had zones as a form of virtualization in solaris since solaris 10, with the release of solaris 11 zones take a massive leap forward in the way they use resources, or dont use, compared with the architecture in solaris 10. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. For more information, see solaris zone patching on page 48.
Changes may be required to replicate the provided scenarios on solaris releases other than 10 508. Jun 19, 2009 the zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Which should be patched first to avoid any crash in case, first local zones followed by global solaris 10 or vice versa. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Solaris 10 zones and networking common considerations. Zones are widely used in production environments as it is easy to setup and doesnt require any special hardware like ldoms does. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris.
Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. The oracle solaris 10 container brand is available in opensolaris build 127. Examining these files will show the show the configuration of the zones. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle community. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. I needed to rename a zone on a solaris 10 system earlier this week and here are some notes on how i did it. Most work is done with zonecfg which has been mentioned in my solaris zones. Solaris containersresource management and solaris zones step. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone.
How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Answer zones are a feature new in solaris 10, and provide a useful mechanism to create a solaris environment for testing, and containment apache server, etc. As far as i know, there is no way to make the change effective without doing a full reboot. Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Jun 12, 20 solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. Jul 04, 2012 we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. First alternative solaris 10 zone configuration and.
Each environment has separate process space, resource allocation and users. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. Solaris 10 9 10 u9 added physical to zone migration, zfs triple parity raidz and oracle solaris auto registration. Solaris zones enables a software partitioning of solaris 10 os to support multiple independent, secure os environments to run in the same os. Nov 25, 2009 free solaris 10 patching best practices training. Thanked 0 times in 0 posts solaris globalzones patching. The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os.
The impact of a zone on machine performance is minimal. As of solaris 10 1009, when a zone stops, the default route is not deleted. Quick start guide time machine for solaris 9 branded zones. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. The directory etc zones contains the configuration files for each zone by the zone name. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones.
Example of fully configuring a solaris 10 zone for starters, lets have a look at the full. Similarly, the patch tools will produce undefined results if used to patch oracle solaris 10 zones from miniroots or systems instead of oracle solaris 10 zones. 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. After the initial install of solaris 10 build 51 i had the following config here at. If you are patching a package that was added by using the. Solaris 11 zones offer the best of solaris 10 wholeroot zones and sparseroot zones, and offer an array of new features that make zones even more flexible and powerful. These branded zones host oracle solaris 10 user environments. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software.
How to patch the solaris global zone with vxfs root local zones. May 01, 2009 now that we know how to create nonglobal zones in solaris, its probably time to learn some basics of zones configuration. To add a patch to the global zone and to all nonglobal zones, run patchadd as the global administrator in the global zone when patchadd is used in the global zone, the following conditions apply the patchadd utility is able to add the patches to the global. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. For starters, lets have a look at the full configuration of our zone. If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. Hi gurus i am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 sol10 u11 to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same i should follow. To determine how long a solaris 10 system has been without patching, i remotely check the following from a linux system, because gnu date is handy 1 remotely grab the datetime from the most recent thing in the patch directory. 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.
Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones 807567 may 16, 2007 4. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. However, if the remote system is a miniroot or an oracle solaris 10 system that is not a solaris10 zone, the operation will produce undefined results. Apr 09, 2003 exclusive its still a ways off, but when solaris 10 arrives, sun microsystems will ship the os with a new type of partitioning technology called solaris zones. System administration guide solaris containersresource management and solaris zones using patchadd in the global zone. Exclusive its still a ways off, but when solaris 10 arrives, sun microsystems will ship the os with a new type of partitioning technology called solaris zones. Instructions provided in this tutorial have been validated on the solaris 10 508 release. How can i set up and configure a zone under solaris 10. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. This paper is specific to time machine for use solaris 9 branded zone on solaris 10 sparc platform. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider.
In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology. Most admins that work with solaris are very aware of how to boot a server from across the net and perform an install. How to give special privileges to specific zones posted on march 17, 2015 by sandeep shenoy whenever we install solaris zones, solaris will assign some set of privileges to take care of activities that impacts overall systems that means that particular zone as well as other zones. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. A good laptopdesktop with solaris 11 virtual machine vmware workstation or virtualbox. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. In case you are new to solaris zones refer the post how to create zones in solaris 10 to get started.
Here the global zone is part of veritas cluster and couple of zones are controlled by vcs and one zone is noncluster. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. Default routes on the same datalink and ip subnet are shared across nonglobal zones. Tutorial solaris zones administration exercise for server operating systems fahad khalid 7182011 disclaimer. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Architecture for package sunwnxge from directory sunwnxge. It is present in illumos formerly opensolaris distributions, such as openindiana, smartos and omnios, as well as. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone. Now i gonna show, how to create zones in solaris 10. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remote system is another solaris10 zone, the patching operation works correctly.
Solaris containers including solaris zones is an implementation of operating systemlevel virtualization technology for x86 and sparc systems, first released publicly in february 2004 in build 51 beta of solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of solaris 10, 2005. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. The reason a reboot is required is that the init process reads the value of tz when it is started, and all other processes inherit this value. Solaris zones a component of the n1 grid container functionality is a new feature for maximizing the use of your solaris systems, and getting better bang for the buck. Dec 15, 20 we have had zones as a form of virtualization in solaris since solaris 10, with the release of solaris 11 zones take a massive leap forward in the way they use resources, or dont use, compared with the architecture in solaris 10. Below displays the resulting configuration info for the zones created by the previous commands. Let us get started and see how we can create a zone in solaris 11.
Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. The below script will help you to find what process is occupying the specific port on solaris servers and this script will be very useful on solaris zones. 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 the patch on the global zone only g. Examine etc zones directory to display zone configuration file. The nonglobal zones are made from the global zones. Install or upgrade to the latest oracle solaris 10 update release during your next major maintenance window.
I thought it was about time i took another look, since. If a nonglobal zone has its own separate var file system, both 11925452 or later and patch 12266010 must be loaded on all zones. This document is based on the first customer release of solaris 10. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. Traditionally we will use lsof command to determine what process is using the particular port. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. Initially i think the cause is ssh key, then i tried to login into the ngz from the network, it was showing ssh connection refused. We have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. We have solaris global with 12 zones and some have 15 zones. In unix system administration, we may need to perform os patching often. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function fujitsu global.
Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones by ramdev published october 26, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function. If a nonglobal zone is on the same datalink and subnet as the global zone, default routes configured for one zone will apply for all other zones on that datalink and ip subnet. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones. This will let you virtualize solaris so that processes run in isolation from other activity on the system. Free solaris 10 patching best practices training cols tech.
What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Bigadmin feature meet the architects software express for solaris solaris 10 by andrew tucker solaris zones architect june 2005.
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