Solaris admin reference solaris storage multipathing. Latest solaris 10 recommended os patchsets contain all the solaris 10 patches listed below. List of solaris 10 patches which update the libc version doc id 2069855. Your support id is included in the welcome letter sent from oracle. Verified the link, zone config and the storage config. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10 platforms. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. When a patch becomes complex and unwieldy, it is rejuvenated.
It can provide details such as the nice name or device name depending on array, lun id. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. The first lun that you assign to a host is automatically assigned host lun id 0. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. How to identify the emc lun id in solaris hpux linux aix windows clariion arrays.
In the case a system has multiple solaris 10 update patch bundles installed, the etcrelease file will contain only a single patch bundle identification line, and this will corresponds to the newest patch bundle installed on the system. Kindly let me know the best practices for managing the solaris server for patching. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. The disks presented to the solaris server can then be configured using the cfgadm and format. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. The unique part of the lun indentifier the lun id is embedded.
This is what you would use to determine which luns are the the same device alternate paths, pseudo device. How to remove a virtual disk presented to a solaris. Posted october 2, 2003 by quinn mchenry in solaris system administration. Solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence oracle solaris blog. How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. How to check solaris release and default kernel version. This document outlines how you can remove a virtual disk from a running guest domain prior to lun being intentionally removed at the storage array layer. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 are no longer covered by the oracle extended support for software. How to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun solaris 5. These patches are located in the varsadm patch directory on an installed system. I have lun id, how to find disk relate to that lun id.
Scanning lun on solaris and mount here are the steps to scanning luns on solaris and mount step 1. After you have registered your support ids, you must be approved by. This article has described how to configure the fc initiator stack supplied with oracle solaris 10 and oracle solaris 11 to enable an oracle solaris server to access fibre channel luns presented by the sun zfs storage appliance. Post solaris 10 1 kernel patches have the patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 please note that there are no more planned updates to solaris 10, so these latest kernel patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 will continue to be. Solaris 10, adding new lun from san storage the unix and. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. How to make fibre channel luns available to oracle solaris. For more information about download plugins, see download plugins. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a.
Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. A patch for solaris 10 10 08 is available for download from sun. This post demonstrates how to secure iscsi luns between oracle solaris 10 and netapp storage. That is, no more revisions of the patch are created. Text in this file my theory is can mess finding new luns in solaris 10.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. What tools can be used to interrogate the storage and build a mental image of what you have been presented with. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. For more solaris commands interview questions click. On an hpux host, the iscsi initiator will not discover the fc storage if it does not detect a lun from the storage system assigned to host lun id 0. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. How to enable multipathing on solaris 10 x86 connected. This is required for detecting new luns and to assist with basic storage connectivity troubleshooting. The output of uname v or the output of cat etcrelease. To look for the existence of a specific patch, you can pipe the output to grep and search for a patch id pattern. How to enable multipathing on solaris 10 x86 connected directly to a standalone filer. The old solaris luxadm command still manage fc arrays, but mpathadm command has been developed to work on all the arrays using fc, sas, and iscsi connections.
Reference index of cve ids and solaris patches doc id. This appendix lists oracle solaris 10 patches that are included with this release. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches.
Multipath management software manages the connections paths between the host and the storage system should one of the paths fail. These patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in this release. How to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun. Solaris calls it bidirectional chap rather than mutual chap. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs. I have spacewalk implemented in my environment to manage patches for all linux servers. 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. Research the relationship between solaris efi, solaris vtoc and lun size as. Solaris operating system version 10 305 to 10 1 u11 release 10. 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. Because sun uses a command line similar to the luupgrade command in the procedure below as part of the standard testing, use a similar approach when you use solaris live upgrade to patch, regardless of the solaris release you are patching. Many modern oracle solaris systems are attached directly to an external storage area network san device containing several disk drives. The aggregate, lun and disk sizes are small in this howto to keep it simple. Hi, i have a solaris server ldom, there is local file system as well as san luns are presented to ther server.
Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. To download the recommended os patchsets please refer to. I am new to solaris and i need some assistance on applying patches for solaris server in our environment. Ensure that the qlc driver configuration file kerneldrvqlc. Those are san luns, the target id is large because part of the wwn is embedded in it. How to verify solaris fibre channel configurations with.
Shows all patches that have been applied to the system. The virtual disk client vdc is responsible for managing the disk communication and not the scsi driver in the ldom guest domains. Actually, currently on my solaris box, ive a lun 5tb space from a emc storage which is working fine, and a partition with zfs filesystem is created for that lun. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. Entry updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids, 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. This is a number similar to 3434354 that defines for oracle the products you have licensed for support. The following commands provide useful information about patches that are already applied to a system. Here are resources for oracles sun zfs storage appliance and oracle solaris zfs. For recommended patch clusters and critical patch updates, use the solaris 10. Dear all, i want to get the lun id for some disks in solaris 10 what commands options for the mpxio and inq i want these utilities only because i don the unix and linux forums how can i find the lun id s.
We recommend that you create a unique target, create a lun on this interface, and give it access to the hpux host. Hey community, im having a little trouble with my storage admin trying to identify the luns presented to my servers. Hi all, we added hba card to one of the solaris 9 server sun fire v240. If you require a specific patch such as 196409, it is advisable to search for the base. For solaris 10 stms is integrated into the solaris operating system. I just installed ibmsdd on solaris diver along with the patches recommended. Each logical unit is identified by a number, the logical unit number or lun.
The drives in this storage device are configured as virtual drives, and each is referred to as a logical unit. Check the the current kernel version and confirm whether upgrade is required or not. Cleaning up the operating system device tree after removing luns solaris 10 example. Integrated nics on poweredge m805 and poweredge m905 blade servers under solaris 10 10 08. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Before applying patches, you might want to know more about patches that have been previously applied. August 30, 20 by lingeswaran r 10 comments applications and databases storage requirement on. How to display information about solaris patches system. Applied all required packages and patches from server level. This guide shows how to rescan and examine fc luns on solaris 1011. The remote host is missing sun security patch number 125971 nessus plugin id 107920. How to scan for new fc devices and gather lun information. List of solaris 10 patches which update the libc version. Add and configure luns in solaris posted by elumalai m ensure the following os packages patches are installed this one should be on the first solaris install dvd. How to identify the emc lun id in solaris hpux linux. Cleaning up the operating system device tree after.
Operating system patches for oracle solaris 10 are provided for the oracle solaris studio 12. Patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle. Setting up a unix host to use fibre channel fc storage. Hi, does anybody know how to check solaris 11 patch version. The solaris 10 patchadd command correctly orders patches for you, but solaris 9 and earlier releases require patches to be in dependency order. In looking at the storage processor event log i see a few events related to that host but am not sure what it means.