This is available for use on all solaris 10 systems. Hi gurus i am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 sol10 u11 to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same i should follow. It is present in illumos formerly opensolaris distributions, such as openindiana, smartos and omnios, as well as. 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. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle community. Starting with the solaris 10 1009 release, zones parallel patching enhances the standard oracle solaris 10 patch utilities. This paper is specific to time machine for use solaris 9 branded zone on solaris 10 sparc platform. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. 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. Solaris zone patching question solutions experts exchange. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Find answers to solaris zone patching question from the expert community at experts exchange.
Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Local zone went configured state when offlined vox. Solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. Checking package information on a solaris system with zones. 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. How to configure solaris 10 zones and assign resources.
If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. How can i set up and configure a zone under solaris 10. Zones are really a more advanced version of a chroot environment. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or interacting with the rest of the system. 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. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see using. Make patchadd modify packages in the current zone only. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this.
Functionality status up to solaris 10 1009 and opensolaris 2009. How to upgrade your solaris zones with zoneadm detach. Parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function. Solaris 10 9 10 u9 added physical to zone migration, zfs triple parity raidz and oracle solaris auto registration. Jun 19, 2009 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. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and. Applying patches to non global zone only logiqwest. 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. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin.
Since i dont have access to the patch bundles at all, i decided to do a scratch install. Optional, for releases prior to solaris 10 10 09 only download patch 11925466 sparc or 11925566 x86. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone. You cant do any fancy virtual switching with zones. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. 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. So prior to os patching we need to make sure,you have the valid backout plan. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. Patching the global zone patches all the zones as well. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. You do not need to detach the zone to make the parent group to failover across nodes when your zone is configured in a parallel service group. 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.
Parallel become superuser, or assume the primary administrator role. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. How to give special privileges to some specific zones. No additional hardware is required for a zone, just some disk space. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. 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. The impact of a zone on machine performance is minimal. The alreadyrunning os is the global zone, and any zones you add are nonglobal. How can i set up and configure a solaris 8 zone under solaris 10.
The zones parallel patching enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch. With solaris 11, only zfs is supported as zone root file system. Set the number of nonglobal zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etcpatchnf. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function fujitsu global. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. And by separation it keeps things a bit more secure. First introduced in oracle solaris 10, zones are builtin, lightweight virtual. If you are doing patch upgrade you need make sure that the repository is accessible inside the zone as well. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Zones are widely used in production environments as it is easy to setup and doesnt require any special hardware like ldoms does. Patching procedure in solaris 10 with sun cluster having. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. Dec 15, 20 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.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently. Quick start guide time machine for solaris 9 branded zones. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Which should be patched first to avoid any crash in case, first local zones followed by global solaris 10 or vice versa. The book covers the topics solaris resource management, solaris zones, and lx branded zones. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones 807567 may 16, 2007 4.
I have a sun solaris server running solaris 10 with 2 nonglobal zones on it. 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. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. However i have bunch of zones in my update 9 install. How to patch the solaris global zone with vxfs root local zones. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Below displays the resulting configuration info for the zones created by the previous commands. Solaris containersresource management and solaris zones step.
Aug 23, 2017 parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. The global zone handles all the scheduling for the zones, the ip stack, etc. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by parallel. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86.
Certain administrative functions can only be performed from the global zone, such as editing the zone configuration. Sep 20, 2012 in unix system administration, we may need to perform os patching often. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root.
Jul 05, 2007 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. 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. Patch management for solaris 10 server pascal kreyeroracle may 12, 2014 11. I m not even sure if this is an issue but before i dig deeper i wanted to check if it really is one. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. So with this in mind, i was considering to update my solaris 10 u9 to solaris 10 u10. If your global zones root filesystem is zfs,then you have to choose live upgrade in order to perform os patching.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently both are present on sol1 node. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. Lets take a look at how this all works in solaris 10. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. Experimenting with smf to run parallel sshd service on different port. Yes, can be applied to multiple zones in parallel no patching pkg. Among the trove is a patch for cve20173622, a local privilege escalation hole in the common desktop environment on solaris 10 that is. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and. 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 the nonglobal zones. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. First alternative solaris 10 zone configuration and. If you had access to the patch bundles, it would be really easy to upgrade the system to update 10 with live upgrade.
How to configure solaris 10 zones and assign resources the. 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 procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. 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. Solaris zones enables a software partitioning of solaris 10 os to support multiple independent, secure os environments to run in the same os. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base.
Zones provides a means of virtualizing operating system services, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system. 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. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. From time to time you have to update or patch your system. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone. Aug 15, 2011 bigadmin solaris containers zones zones parallel patching. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Upgrading with nonglobal zones oracle solaris 10 1. The net result was that solaris 10, and especially the concept of zones, failed to get. Creating kernel zones in solaris 11 tech support says. In solaris 10 got an interesting feature to enable ssl for any service by adding a. 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. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed.
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