If a nonglobal zone has its own separate var file system, both 11925452 or later and patch 12266010 must be loaded on all zones. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. 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. My suggestion is patch global zone and zone in parallel on the same time this will be the major steps to patch both zones and global 1. Its builtin oracle solaris native zones technology provides application virtualization through isolated, encapsulated, and highly secure environments that run on top of a single, common kernel. Two filesystem models in solaris 10 zones as you probably know, there are two such.
Oracle solaris 11 is a complete, integrated, and open platform engineered for largescale enterprise environments. 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. Let us create a new zone with a minimal resources and settings required to get it up and running. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. A good laptopdesktop with solaris 11 virtual machine vmware workstation or virtualbox.
Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. Memory usage of a solaris container zone last week one of my servers ran out of ram and swap. 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. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for. For further efficiency, oracle solaris zones can be deployed in each guest os. Below is a list of the properties for both a oracle solaris 10 and a oracle solaris 11 zone.
The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones 807567 may 16, 2007 4. It is present in illumos formerly opensolaris distributions, such as openindiana, smartos and. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Oracle solaris 11 zones part 2 new zone configuration properties. Below displays the resulting configuration info for the zones created by the previous commands.
Set the number of nonglobal zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etc patch nf. If you have just arrived at this page, then you might want to start with solaris 10 zones. To simply display the number of physical processors, simply run the command with the p option as follows. Quick start guide time machine for solaris 9 branded zones. Let us get started and see how we can create a zone in solaris 11. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. The global zone is still patched before the nonglobal zones are patched. First introduced in oracle solaris 10, zones are builtin, lightweight virtual. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on your oracle solaris 10 system.
This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Creating kernel zones in solaris 11 tech support says. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. For releases prior to solaris 10 10 09, this feature is delivered in the. Cause analysis of the issue is likely to compound the problem e. 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.
Properties added by solaris 11 release 1111 are in bold. 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. Solaris 8 system images inside of a branded zone on solaris 10. 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. The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms.
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. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. 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. In case you are new to solaris zones refer the post how to create zones in solaris 10 to get started. 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 other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. 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. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Aug 15, 2011 bigadmin solaris containers zones zones parallel patching. For releases prior to oracle solaris 10 10 09, this feature is delivered in the. For releases prior to solaris 10 10 09, this feature is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 or later revision sparc and 11925566 or later revision x86. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86.
Checking package information on a solaris system with zones. Solaris containersresource management and solaris zones step. Applying patches to non global zone only logiqwest. Applying a patch to an oracle solaris system with zones installed. Solaris 10 not only allows airlock to be installed on a wide range of x86machines, it also provides an.
The zones parallel patching enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities increases the patching tools performance on systems with multiple zones by allowing parallel patching of. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function. As the server is running several zones, my first question was. Parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime. Check latest patch on my oracle support website parallel patching is really helpful. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. 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.
In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. Solaris has this wonderful new feature called zones. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation.
Solaris 10 1009 update 8 turbocharged svr4 packaging zones parallel patching solaris 10 910 update 9. Branded zones these are solaris 8 or solaris 9 zones on the solaris 10 global zones. 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. From solaris 10 10 09 onward you have got an option to patch multiple zones in parallel. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466. In solaris 10, if you want to find the processor type and the number of physical processors installed on the system and the number of virtual processors available on the system then the psrinfo command does job for you. 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. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm.
Solaris 10 is not only powerful but it is very innovative. 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. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle. Solaris 10 can open your mind to entirely new solutions in much the same way that a ten megaton bomb can clear a room. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed.
Every time a patch is applied which impacts both kernel code and userlevel. In a way, this patching business of the systems before doing the lu defeats the purpose of using lu, because i realized when migrating from solarisu3 to solarisu7, one of the patches required a reboot here is how i used pca. However, since oracle took over, in my view there has been a loss of interest in small to. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities and is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86.
I thought it was about time i took another look, since a lot of the updates in opensolaris were looking good. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. For releases prior to the solaris 10 10 09 release, this feature is delivered in the following patch utilities patches. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. This paper is specific to time machine for use solaris 9 branded zone on solaris 10 sparc platform. Upgrading with nonglobal zones oracle solaris 10 1. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints.
Tim wort introduction a number of new zonecfg1m properties are added to oracle solaris 11 zones. Today ill tell you about root filesystem models for nonglobal zones in solaris. Yes, can be applied to multiple zones in parallel no patching pkg. Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology.
This is available for use on all solaris 10 systems. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. 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. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Zones provides a means of virtualizing operating system services, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system.
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