I knew they had cool technology in solaris, like dtrace and zones, but apart from the. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones. Our current production server is oraclesun t5220 running solaris 10 os with 2.
Changes may be required to replicate the provided scenarios on solaris releases other than 10 508. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. The interconnectedness of cool new features such as containers zones and zfs, and the pervasiveness of features such as newboot grub, trusted extensions, and secure by default, have resulted in some complex solaris 10 patch relationships and some large kernel patches. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. 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. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. Over time, solaris zones have grown in popularity, thirdparty support has increased, and the technology has been enhanced continually to support new and different kinds of features and con. For proper operation, note that you must install patches 11925475 sparc or 11925575 x86x64, or later versions, on your oracle solaris 10 system before the archive is created. First alternative solaris 10 zone configuration and. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone.
About using packaging and patching in solaris10 branded. If you are patching a package that was added by using the. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. Zones are one of the best features in solaris 10 theyre so lightweight that you can use them at almost no cost in performance.
If a nonglobal zone has its own separate var file system, both 11925452 or later and patch 12266010 must be loaded on all zones. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the monday closest to 17th of. If you are anything like me then you have probably been working with computer technology for as long as you can remember. This page provides the latest information on patching. Solaris 10 zones and networking common considerations. Oracle solaris 11 zones part 1 a comparison of oracle solaris 10 and oracle solaris 11 zones.
May 29, 20 rethinking patching the view from the engine room by barts jul 25, 2007 as stephen mentioned recently, several of us have been thinking about revising the way we manage software change on solaris. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. In fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. The sudden death and eternal life of solaris hacker news. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. As of solaris 10 1009, when a zone stops, the default route is not deleted. We have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. The impact of a zone on machine performance is minimal.
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. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. Still we should be grateful to sun because solaris 10 moved unix far forward as the. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. No additional hardware is required for a zone, just some disk space.
After years of unbearably slow patching and terrible package dependency handling, the packaging and patching system used in every previous version of solaris has finally been replaced. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. 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. Introduction to oracle solaris 10 zones oracle solaris. Tutorial solaris zones administration exercise for server operating systems fahad khalid 7182011 disclaimer. The book covers the topics resource management, oracle solaris zones, and oracle solaris 10 zones solaris10 branded zones. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called.
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. This allows running applications on the newest hardware platforms. The below script will help you to find what process is occupying the specific port on solaris servers and this script will be. Step by step install ti on solaris 10 ip address computer terminal.
In the oracle solaris 10 guest domain it is possible to run any combination of oracle solaris 8, oracle solaris 9, and oracle solaris 10 containers zones. Solaris 10 not only allows airlock to be installed on a wide range of x86machines, it also provides an. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. The patch switching policy that you choose not only effects on how your systems. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones about using packaging and patching in solaris10 branded zones. 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. Part of the solaris 10 operating system os, solaris zones are widely discussed across all corners of the web. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1.
I thought it was about time i took another look, since a lot of the updates in opensolaris were looking good. How can i set up and configure a zone under solaris 10. About using packaging and patching in solaris10 branded zones the svr4 package metadata is available inside the zone, and the package and patch commands work correctly. Every now and again an entirely innovative approach to computer technology appears on the market.
And half the time, they got blown off their horse by a cannonball to the neck. Well also be able to do live migration of kernel zones. My suggestion is patch global zone and zone in parallel on the same time. When used in a nonglobal zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be used to add patches to that zone. Could you please help me with patching solaris 10 and 11 due to the changes in daylight savings time in russia. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. When downloading patches, where should i download the patch for solaris 10 with zones before applying. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle. 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. Default routes on the same datalink and ip subnet are shared across nonglobal zones. After checking the messages i found out that sunconnection tried to install the patch in single user mode which is ok, it is recommended in the readme to do so.
By alasdair lumsden on 11 jun 2009 so, you have a solaris 10 zone. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. Ocean other offset from gmt other specify time zone file. Run vmstat command to identify the system bottle neck. You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure. 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. Help req for patching on solaris 10 zones hi experts, can advise on this.
Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. For the purpose of this example, i will be installing solaris 10 on a. Here the global zone is part of veritas cluster and couple of zones are controlled by vcs and one zone is noncluster. The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching the solaris zones technology provides a way to efficiently manage and use resources by allowing you to have isolated software applications and services. Automated joining solaris 10 servers to an ad domain, including finding and patching a bug in. This article explains how airlock uses solaris 10 zones for more security, and their implications on network configuration one of the major changes from airlock 3. Applying patches to non global zone only logiqwest. Solaris scenario based interview questions unixarena. In oracle solaris 10, zones was introduced which gave us an ability to create isolated environments for applications that can run on a single machine. 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. This paper will examine many of those enhancements starting with a comparison of a basic zone constructed in oracle solaris 10 compared to a basic zone constructed in oracle.
Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. 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. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Patched solaris global zone with zfs and nonglobal zones root fs with vxfs scenario. Tim wort oracle solaris 11 offers many new enhancements for zones. Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology. Help req for patching on solaris 10 zones the unix and. Now samurai larry has a big albatross around his neck just so he can control.
Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Solaris 10 zones implementation which includes solarisspecific seamless. Divination cards drop from monsters and loot containers. Ive been particularly focused on the difficulties sun and its customers have with the patching process, and the kinds of changes we need to make as a. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. Which should be patched first to avoid any crash in case, first local zones. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. The svr4 package metadata is available inside the zone, and the package and patch commands work correctly. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remote system is another solaris10 zone, the patching operation works correctly. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. 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.
Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Migrating a zone to a different machine on solaris 10. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. But with su mode the home0zones zones homedir is not yet available, and zoneadm fails to boot up the local zones. 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. 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. Instructions provided in this tutorial have been validated on the solaris 10 508 release. 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. Solaris zone patching bigfix ibm endpoint manager forum. An additional investment protection element is the long service life of oracle solaris 10. If the patch already exists, and rerun this, will it be any harm 3. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle.
Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Today, i ran across a situation where one of my zones needed more ram, and the box it was on didnt have it. I am new to solaris 10 at least to using zones on it i have just been handed a bunch of servers with zones already created. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17.
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