Patch management for solaris now supports solaris 11. I need your expert help, what is the best practice and simple way to migrateport from current server to new solaris 11 server. Sep 10, 2015 system patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. A simple installation on oracle solaris 11 installation has been tested with drupal 7 patch level. If you are patching a package that was added by using the pkgadd command with the g option. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. For oracle solaris 11 all system changes are made by updating packages and because of the automatic dependency checking, before actually updating packages, the. In the zones update on attach section of a previous blog posting, i mentioned that the zones update on attach feature could also be used to improve zones patching perfomance.
We got you covered on your way to oracle solaris 11 os the oracle solaris 11 operating system os platform provides major improvements over. Ibm bigfix patch for solaris provides unified, realtime visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all solaris endpoints from a single console. Can i have different sru levels in non global zones. 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. Package catalog oracle solaris 11 package repository. 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. System patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. How can i patch a global zone without patching nonglobal zones. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Oracle solaris 11 guest operating systems do not recognize lsi. Parallel patching is really helpful as it will apply patches in parallel to all the zones.
Does the zoneadm attach u option will update the patches in nonglobal zone in solaris 11. This patch installation utility cannot be used to apply solaris 1 patches. As previously mentioned, new bug fixes as well as features soak in the next marketing release of solaris under development currently nevada to shake out any bugs in the code, before the code changes are allowed to be put back into an older release of solaris for inclusion in a patch and, if the patch is for solaris 10, included in the next update release. The first form of patchadd installs one or more patches to a system, client, service, or to the miniroot of a net install image. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Since maintaining a solaris 11 system is quite different to maintaining a solaris 10 system, i thought it prudent to start this 2nd parallel blog for solaris 11.
Always solaris administrators work will be harder than any other unix and linux flavors administrators. Cause analysis of the issue is likely to compound the problem e. The goal of this topic is to demonstrate how to perform patch analysis and remediation for oracle solaris 11 systems using bmc server. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. Exalogic tech overview cloud computing oracle corporation. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands. 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. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Because solaris administrator have to learn,third party products like veritas volume manager,veritas cluster and rapidly changing solaris technologies.
Maximum number of work items that can be performed in parallel. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Add in the comprehensive tools to manage your cloud, architecture to build your cloud and the risk. Patch analysis for solaris 11 differs in bsa from patch analysis for earlier versions of solaris, due to changes introduced by oracle into version 11 of the solaris operating system. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 elis blog. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Solaris 11 new installation and management features in the areas of upgrade and patching processes are tightly integrated to zfs bootroot.
It keeps your solaris clients current with the latest oracle updates. Kernel patch 127127811 from solaris 10 508 update 5. Opatch takes long time to complete the patching stuck at oui67117 backing up files on solaris. So if you have 3 zones and it takes 1 minute to apply a patch on global zone then it will take another 1 minute each to apply on other 3 zones. The rsync description says it uses a three level search, the first of which is a 16 bit hash table, the second is a check of the sorted list of hashes, and the third is the md4sum. Simply install this patch, set the maximum number of nonglobal zones to be patched in parallel in the config file etcpatchnf, and away you go. Some prototype scripts existed for parallel patching of zones, but unfortunately these are incompatible with deferred activation patching. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository solaris 11 ips handon lab managing software packages solaris 11 ips handon lab boot environments oracle solaris 11 uses a completely new approach for package management. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. Max deport object work items to process in parallel. Creating a patch catalog for solaris documentation for.
For more information, see how to perform hpux or centos patch analysis using vendor patch content. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository the. As pca is not needed anymore on solaris 11, it is now being used mostly by. Published on the otn garage the official blog of the system admin and developer community of otn with links to tales from the datacenter by erik benner, enterprise architect, mythics inc. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. The parallel update provides a significant improvement in the time required to update all the zones on a system. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when.
This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Since oracle solaris 11 was released in november 2011, there have been two major updates the 11. For patch analysis of solaris 11 systems, you use outofthebox nsh scripts provided with bmc server automation. Everyone who develops software for this platform will want to make sure that the application users are using the optimal solaris 11 infrastructure. For an example solaris 10 is somewhat different from earlier versions of solaris since sun have introduced new technologies like. This document presents procedures for building and operating oracle solaris 11. Instead of using a switch, two systems are directly connected together to run parallel aggregations.
Patch management is supported for hpux and centos using an external tool called vendor patch content vpc. Each solaris update contains all available patches pre applied to the release. Solaris 11 will, for instance, have one button rollback features so if customers dont like the results of their upgrade to solaris 11, they can go back. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. How to configure link aggregation in solaris 11 trunk vs datalink. With ips, you can update all of the packages on your system that have available updates, or you can update individual packages that are not constrained by the system. Yes, can be applied to multiple zones in parallel no patching pkg. Applying a patch to an oracle solaris system with zones installed. Aug 23, 2017 parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime.
Actually, i have an ulterior motive for starting this separate blog. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on your solaris 10 system. Only 5 patches is very, very suspicious, as darren mentioned. 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. The first cloud os by providing an elastic, secure, responsive, and highly available operating system oracle solaris 11 delivers the best foundation to build your cloud infrastructure. What is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. Patch management overview and workflow documentation for. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. Do we have to upgrade current t5220 solaris 10 server to 11 then migrateport all data and zones to new t52 solaris 11 server. Gerry haskins director security and release management.
Adding or updating individual packages to add individual software packages, use the pkg install command. Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. All these components are available in oracle solaris 10 and 11. An additional, separate package is provided for patch management on solaris 11. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Solaris 11 customer maintenance lifecycle oracle solaris.
This walkthrough shows how to use the solaris 11 patching solution to update the patch repository and then to perform patch analysis to identify and update any outdated ips packages on a group of two. Local repositories ibm bigfix provides a method for using local repositories to store patch updates for solaris 11. Do not use lsi logic sas controllers with solaris 11 guest operating systems. Need to check the current patch version on the server. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. In solaris 11, if you do major patching the pkg will patch the inactive boot environment then it will be active after next reboot utilizing zfs clone ability on root zpool. The option to download patches from sun directly was probably one of the. How can i patch a non global zone without patching the global zone.
I would reinstall solaris 10 11 06 from scratch, or wait a few months until the next sol 10 version comes out. If this system does not have the solaris 11 cpu package installed, identify the solaris 11 cpu package for the sru that is installed, and query that package remotely. Im trying to run a number of jobs using the parallel command in solaris 11 with the following command. Simply install this patch, set the maximum number of nonglobal zones to be patched in parallel in the config file etc patch nf, and away you go. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean wit the unix and linux forums. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. Well for patching, first thing you learn is backup then you learn repositories ips. Note oracle solaris 10 305 through oracle solaris 10 1106. Mar 02, 2016 what is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. Solaris 10 patching will have to happen individually. For example, if this system is running oracle solaris 11.
I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. Patching the kernel, he said, typically gets delayed. Oracles ultimate goal is to make the solaris patching like redhat linux satellite server patching model. Patch management refers to the acquisition, testing, and installation of patches. If you are using solaris 11 patches, you can only use a solaris 11 server for storing the patch repository. We got you covered on your way to oracle solaris 11 os the oracle solaris 11 operating system os platform provides major. Wikis apply the wisdom of crowds to generating information for users interested in a particular subject. The zones parallel patching enhancement for the solaris 10 patch utilities was released this week giving customers a choice of how to improve zones patching performance in the zones update on attach section of a previous blog posting, i mentioned that the zones update on attach feature could also be used to improve zones patching perfomance.
Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. The ability to resolve and map multiple paths to a lun regardless of protocol fc, scsi, iscsi etc is built in to oracle solaris 11. Botswana, kenya, namibia, rwanda, south africa, tanzania, uganda, zambia and zimbabwe. We got you covered on your way to oracle solaris 11 os the oracle solaris 11 operating system. Performing solaris 11 patch analysis documentation.
When i installed sol 10 11 06 from dvd, many patches were included with the distribution, so it is likely that your patch database has been corrupted. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Ibm endpoint manager is pleased to announce support for solaris 11. If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how. The parallel capabilities of oracle solaris 11 allow the sun zfs storage appliance to process io requests in parallel, increasing storage efficiency and performance to levels higher than other nas suppliers, said fowler.
Updating the solaris 11 patch repository documentation for. In the truesight server automation console, browse to depot solaris11 patching solution script. Patching using fixlets you can apply solaris patches to your deployment by using the fixlets on the available solaris sites. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Reconfigure the virtual machine to use an lsi logic parallel scsi controller. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers.
Since ips is a single tier packaging architecture, it. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. If a package is constrained, an appropriate message indicating why it has been constrained is provided.
Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. Required benchmark disclosure statement tseries reserved. May 19, 2009 now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Oracle solaris storage software oracle solaris 11 express. Chris reece has implemented thread support into pca for parallel patch downloads. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. This article will talk about the oracle solaris 11. I signed up for that, but now i need an oracle support identifier. Oracle solaris 10 with the release of the october 2018 solaris 10 extended support recommended patch set, you can now run solaris 10 in oracle cloud. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. The zones parallel patching enhancement for the solaris 10 patch utilities was released this week giving customers a choice of how to improve zones patching performance.
Trunk aggregations also support backtoback configuration. The zones parallel patching performance enhancement continues on schedule. Solaris zone patching bigfix ibm endpoint manager forum. We are installing solaris 10 update 11 x8664 and have a small problem. Show all versions show obsolete packages show renamed packages. Opatch takes long time to complete the patching stuck at. Any dependent packages are also updated at the same time. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 eli. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. May 01, 2009 apache2 australia bfu blogs competition dhcp dtrace dtrace php grub hostname inetadm ipsec jumpstart ldd nis nodename opencsw opensolaris oracle pam patches php pid provider pkgget pxe raidz s8ma smf solaris solaris 8 solaris 10 solaris books solaris express solaris install solaris os solaris zones ssh sun cluster sun microsystems truss uname. So all your zones on a server will be patched at the same time thus drastically reducing your patching time. Solaris 11 is public available and the ips package management is setting new standards in solaris administration and version management. You can use the patchadd system utility described in the patchadd.
Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solaris zones parallel patching 20090619t17. Exalogic tech overview free download as powerpoint presentation. The book covers the topics resource management, oracle solaris zones, and oracle solaris 10 zones solaris10 branded zones. 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. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. At this time, updating a nonglobal zone in oracle solaris 11 express is. If we consider the above scenario if we use parallel patching, the total patching time for applying the patch. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. 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. Parallel qa cpu, memory, network requirements will double. The book covers the topics oracle solaris resource management, zones also.
I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. Oct 16, 20 installing applying an idr pkgpatch using a. This is available for use on all solaris 10 systems. Cause analysis of the issue is likely to compound the. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
It has been successfully beta tested by a number of key customers who confirm a 3x performance improvement patching zones. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Jun 17, 2009 the zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. When downloading patches, where should i download the patch for solaris 10 with zones before applying. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones.