Friday, September 16, 2011

Solaris 10 8/11 is released

Solaris 10 u10 ( 8/11 ) is released and available for download
 Notes on the upgrade ( from u9):

bash-3.00# lofiadm -a /export/home/iso/sol-10-u10-ga2-x86-dvd.iso /dev/lofi/1 bash-3.00# mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/ bash-3.00# /mnt/Solaris_10/Tools/Installers/liveupgrade20 # If upgrading from old solaris and liveupgrade 2.0 is not installed bash-3.00# lucreate -n sol10u10 bash-3.00# echo "auto_reg=disable" > /tmp/sysidcfg bash-3.00# luupgrade -u -n sol10u10 -s /mnt -k /tmp/sysidcfg ... ... INFORMATION: The file on boot environment contains a log of the upgrade operation. INFORMATION: The file on boot environment contains a log of cleanup operations required. INFORMATION: Review the files listed above. Remember that all of the files are located on boot environment . Before you activate boot environment , determine if any additional system maintenance is required or if additional media of the software distribution must be installed. The Solaris upgrade of the boot environment is complete. ... bash-3.00# lumount sol10u10 /a
Review log files:  /a/var/sadm/system/logs/upgrade_log and /var/sadm/system/data/upgrade_cleanup

bash-3.00# luumount /a bash-3.00# luactivate sol10u10 bash-3.00# init 6

Review results of the upgrade

bash-3.2# lustatus | egrep sol10u10\|Name\|Env\|-- Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status -------------------------- -------- ------ --------- ------ ---------- sol10u10 yes yes yes no - bash-3.2# uname -svr SunOS 5.10 Generic_147441-01

If everything looks OK ( and in my case there were no issues ) proceed with upgrade of zpool and zfs and in case of mirrored boot pool - don't forget to update grub on the second disk.;

Changes since u9 ( zpool v22 , zfs v4 ):
zpool:

VER  DESCRIPTION
---  --------------------------------------------------------

 23  Slim ZIL
 24  System attributes
 25  Improved scrub stats
 26  Improved snapshot deletion performance
 27  Improved snapshot creation performance
 28  Multiple vdev replacements
 29  RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator
bash-3.2# zfs upgrade -v
The following filesystem versions are supported:

zfs

VER  DESCRIPTION
---  --------------------------------------------------------
 5   System attributes
!!! If system zpool is upgraded to the new version - there will be no way to boot into the old environment !!!


Update:
  There are potential issues when upgrading host with multiple zones, see details in the post


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