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. This is a brief example of setting up a zfs storage pool and a couple of filesystems datasets on solaris 10. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. I have to rename the rpool due to our new naming convention. Oracle released the oracle solaris 10 1 whats new document, outlining. Do not rename your zfs bes with the zfs rename command because the solaris live upgrade feature is unaware of the name change. Aug 19, 2011 3 rename the new pool rpool2 to rpool. Creating, destroying, and renaming zfs file systems oracle. I dont know what happened, but think well see both the os and docs available soon. No known data errors to fix this annoyance, i first exported the pool. Reconfiguring the zfs dataset of a solaris zone let it know. Renaming a zone and changing the mountpoint oracle out.
Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data deduplication, raid and data encryption. I accidentially named a pool tets rather than test. I had to change the host name in one of solaris zones today, and just out of curiousity looked into etcinit. Required solaris live upgrade patch information next. Remove zfs filesystem from zone in solaris 10 posted on december 5, 2009 by ryan sifting through some documentation, i couldnt find a little walkthrough of. Change the name of a file system and relocate it within the zfs hierarchy. I already know that since my zpool is not mirrored i need to destroy and recreate the zpool. If you are attempting to use solaris live upgrade from a solaris 10 release to the. Replacing the system hdd by a larger one on solaris 11 x86. Solaris 10 is the first unix that deserves to be called xxi century unix due to implementation of lightweight virtualization scheme called zones, extension of rbac and process right management, dtrace, zfs and predictive selfhealing. Red hat enterprise linux to oracle solaris 11 comparison.
That said, if someone wants to port the os x patch so that. If you rename a defaultoptions created pool, the mountpoint dynamically changes to the new name. Thats how i learned a new to me option of the uname command, which seems to be specific to solaris. Jun 29, 2016 i noticed that i made a typo when i created one of my pools. Zfs has many cool features over traditional volume managers like svm,lvm,vxvm. Zfs root pool recommendations and requirements charanjitwiki. Aug 05, 2015 oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11.
Hello all i have a solaris 10u8 sparc installed on san lun using zfs filesystem. This zfs zone root configuration can be upgraded or patched. If a solaris zone is installed, we cannot change the zonepath with zonecfg command. A pool need to be reimported to have its name changed. I now need to move some of the devices in usrpool to another zpool which is running out of room. It worked for me, but its may not be the right procedure. You need to mount the zfs root pool so you can install the boot block that corresponds to the patch.
So heres a very simple procedure for updating the hostname of your solaris 10 server. In this article, we will be doing prechecks for oracle 11gr2 rac installation on solaris 10. Lets su to root, confirm our environment, and create some disk files before we get started with zfs. Here i have installed solaris on two nodes using zfs filesystem. Storage is an ibm ds4800 the machine is part of a twonodecluster with suncluster, in case of failover, luns and zpool is taken online on the second node on aix you have to increase the luns on the storage, and then run chvg g vgname, is there such a command for zfs pool on solaris, and is it possible while operating.
With the rename subcommand, you can perform the following operations. Solaris zones migration with zfs oracle the art of. Oracle solaris 11 zfs file system made for the hunt. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments 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.
Resolving zfs mountpoint problems that prevent successful. Managing devices in zfs storage pools oracle solaris zfs. Oracle does provide a procedure called transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system, enabling you to port your solaris 10 global or nonglobal zone to solaris 11. Sep 10, 2014 in this article, we will be doing prechecks for oracle 11gr2 rac installation on solaris 10. Name state read write cksum app online 0 0 0 c0d1 online 0 0 0 c1d0 online 0 0 0 c1d1 online 0 0 0 errors.
File systems can be renamed by using the zfs rename command. A while back, we added a new 2 tb lun from the san to one of the servers and started using it as a zpool with one zfs file system defined on it. How to setup zfs filesystem on linux with zpool command. Jul 01, 2010 hello all i have a solaris 10u8 sparc installed on san lun using zfs filesystem. The new solaris release 10 811 or 10u10 is ready for download. Invalid argument messages from 14725801 this revision accumulates generic sustaining patch 14453402 into solaris s10u10 update. First alternative solaris 10 zfs pool basic example. Powerpath on solaris 10 with missing pseudo device names. Below are the prechecks that need to be completed before we start the oracle rac installation. For oracle solaris 10, the recommended os patchset is copied and renamed as the cpu patchset on. Youll need the solaris update 2 release dated june 2006 or later, as zfs was not in the earlier standard releases of solaris 10. Recursively renaming zfs snapshots zfs rename r solaris 10 1008. Working with oracle solaris zfs snapshots and clones.
A pool in the online state is running fine without any issues detected. I noticed that i made a typo when i created one of my pools. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. I test following procedure to rename the guest domain. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools the urban penguin. Dec 07, 20 solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools december 7, 20 by the urban penguin even though zfs, the zetabyte file system made its appearance during the life of solaris 10. The post discusses about how to install zfs boot block on a system running a zfs root filesystem. To develop this filesystem cum volume manager,sun microsystems had spend lot of years and some billion dollars money. Hi all, i got a two node oracle rac cluster, running on solaris 10 with power path version 5. A pool in the degraded state continues to run, but you might not achieve the same level of data redundancy or data throughput than if the pool were online. The oracle documentation about solaris 10 operating system.
Do not try on your prod environment rename the guest domain. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. You can run zpool scrub poolname to check data integrity. Addremove swap space in a zfs environment syscookbook. Attach the zone with a validation check and update the zone to match a host running later versions of the dependent packages or having a different machine class upon attach. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem.
To replace a disk, after a failure or corruption, use the following command. To expand the zpool by adding a new disk use the zpool command as given below. It is backwards compatible with sysv init scripts, and provides features, such as parallel startup of system services at boot time, ondemand activation of daemons, support for system state snapshots, or dependencybased service control logic. Zfs solaris live upgrade migration issues oracle docs.
If booting the active environment fails due to a bad patch or a configuration error, the only way to boot from a different environment is to select that environment at boot time. In this example, the mark file system is relocated from tankhome to tankws. I had to change the host name in one of solaris zones today, and just out. Changing the name of a boot environment oracle solaris 10 910. You can change its file systems mountpoints but they must not be in use for the command to succeed so that probably wouldnt help here.
Hi, its root fs so you must boot from other solaris, for example cd, or easiest failsafe because to rename a zfs it must be remounted and if is in use like root or var is not possible. In fact, do not rename your zfs pools or file systems if you have existing bes that you want to continue to use. Confirm that the zones from the ufs environment are booted. How to create rename rollback destroy a zfs snapshot. We got a solaris 10 system with many zones installed on it.
Resolving zfs mountpoint problems that prevent successful booting solaris 10 10 08 the best way to change the active boot environment is to use the luactivate command. See the zfs administration guide for information about supported zones configurations that can be upgraded or patched in the solaris 10 release. Jul 11, 2012 zfszetta byte filesystem is introduced on solaris 10 release. Name state read write cksum rapool online 0 0 0 c0d1 online 0 0 0 errors. May 20, 2009 i had to change the host name in one of solaris zones today, and just out of curiousity looked into etcinit. Creating, destroying, and renaming zfs file systems. The latest, and perhaps last, update of solaris 10 was expected in 2012, to coinside with an early release of the sparc t5. Changing zonepath of an installed zone let it know. Students will have access to both sparc and x86based solaris servers to perform their labs. Zfszetta byte filesystem is introduced on solaris 10 release. Solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments 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. Instead of naming a pool rpool, i accidentally named it rapool. Oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11.
In zfs theres no way of renaming a zpool which is already imported, the only way to do that is to export the pool and reimport it with the new, correct name. How to setup zfs filesystem on linux with zpool command examples. These solaris servers still have mostly ufs file systems. Ill send a heads up and pointer when everything is available. Solaris 10 is miserable, especially after various lustre patches made it into zfs. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. The following example shows how to use zfs rename to relocate a file system. When you relocate a file system through rename, the new location must be within the same pool and it. Remove zfs filesystem from zone in solaris 10 source. Zfs quick command reference with examples unixarena.
Installing and booting an oracle solaris zfs root file system. It doesnt matter if i copy or move the zpool to the new zpool. Do not rename your zfs bes with the zfs rename command because the. Solaris 10 was launched in 2005, with groundbreaking features like. Changing the name of a boot environment oracle solaris 10 1. I have found documents on renaming zpools by running. The operating system will be oracle solaris 10 sunos 5. We need edit the config files manually, use for example vi.
As a reminder, ai automated installer is the new tool to do network installation solaris 11 equivalent to jumpstart on solaris 10 and previous in my case, i used an ai server i had installed before. How to install a zfs boot block in solaris the geek diary. Boot environment administration, beadm, based on zfs snapshots. A system and service manager that replaces upstart as the default init system. Both sparcbased and x86based versions of solaris are covered in this course. However, you will end up with a nonglobal zone, even if your original system only had a single zone and if you use solaris but dont know what. Upgrade the system to the solaris 10 10 08 release if it is running a previous solaris 10 release. Then send the zpool to the other computer with command 2 and then destroy the snapshot on my old zpool and on my new zpool. How to use zpool split to split rpool in solaris 11 sparc. For example, following an operating system upgrade, you might rename the boot environment solaris8 to solaris10.
This file maintains an ondisk view of the imported zfs pools and is read at boot time to populate the incore zfs storage pool configs without having to delay the boot by scanning and reading all the disks presented to the host. Theoretically isnt recommended changing the zoneptah after zone installation, but in some situation we need to do this. Rename a guest domain solaris ldom raju unix diary. I tried using rename, but its tells me rename not found i also tried using which a rename to get the full path for the command, but its tells me rename isnt listed in any of the path. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Also use the b option to back out specified patches, either official or idr, during the. The zfs file system is a new kind of file system that fundamentally changes the way. Pdf oracle solaris zfs administration guide seo log academia. Update 9 still seems to be the current solaris 10 download.