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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
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Preface

Part I Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Planning)

4.  Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

5.  Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade (Tasks)

6.  Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)

7.  Maintaining Solaris Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)

8.  Upgrading the Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade and Installed Non-Global Zones (Overview)

Understanding Solaris Zones and Solaris Live Upgrade

Guidelines for Using Solaris Live Upgrade With Non-Global Zones (Planning)

Creating a Boot Environment When a Non-Global Zone Is on a Separate File System

Creating and Upgrading a Boot Environment When Non-Global Zones Are Installed (Tasks)

Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System (Tasks)

Upgrading a System With Non-Global Zones Installed (Example)

Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System

Administering Boot Environments That Contain Non-Global Zones

To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment's Non-Global Zone File Systems

To Compare Boot Environments for a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

Using the lumount Command on a System That Contains Non-Global Zones

9.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Examples)

10.  Solaris Live Upgrade (Command Reference)

Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Solaris Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool

11.  Solaris Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)

12.  Solaris Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

13.  Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

14.  Solaris Live Upgrade For ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

B.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

C.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Upgrading With Solaris Live Upgrade and Installed Non-Global Zones (Overview)

Starting with the Solaris Solaris 10 8/07 release, you can upgrade or patch a system that contains non-global zones with Solaris Live Upgrade. If you have a system that contains non-global zones, Solaris Live Upgrade is the recommended program to upgrade and to add patches. Other upgrade programs might require extensive upgrade time, because the time required to complete the upgrade increases linearly with the number of installed non-global zones. If you are patching a system with Solaris Live Upgrade, you do not have to take the system to single-user mode and you can maximize your system's uptime. The following list summarizes changes to accommodate systems that have non-global zones installed.

Understanding Solaris Zones and Solaris Live Upgrade

The Solaris Zones partitioning technology is used to virtualize operating system services and provide an isolated and secure environment for running applications. A non-global zone is a virtualized operating system environment created within a single instance of the Solaris OS, the global zone. When you create a non-global zone, you produce an application execution environment in which processes are isolated from the rest of the system.

Solaris Live Upgrade is a mechanism to copy the currently running system onto new slices. When non-global zones are installed, they can be copied to the inactive boot environment along with the global zone's file systems.

Figure 8-1 shows a non-global zone that is copied to the inactive boot environment along with the global zone's file system.

Figure 8-1 Creating a Boot Environment – Copying Non-Global Zones

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Figure 8-2 shows that a non-global zone is copied to the inactive boot environment.

Figure 8-2 Creating a Boot Environment – Copying a Shared File System From a Non-Global Zone

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