How to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of a Solaris Maintenance Update

Perform this procedure to upgrade the Solaris OS to a supported Maintenance Update release.

To upgrade a cluster from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 software or from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 10/05 software or compatible, with or without upgrading Sun Cluster software as well, you must instead perform a nonrolling upgrade. Go to Performing a Nonrolling Upgrade.

Before You Begin

Ensure that all steps in How to Prepare a Cluster Node for a Rolling Upgrade are completed.

Steps

1. Temporarily comment out all entries for globally mounted file systems in the node's /etc/vfstab file.

   Perform this step to prevent the Solaris upgrade from attempting to mount the global devices.

2. Follow the instructions in the Solaris maintenance update installation guide to install the Maintenance Update release.

   ---

   Note –

   Do not reboot the node when prompted to reboot at the end of installation processing.

   ---

3. Uncomment all entries in the /a/etc/vfstab file for globally mounted file systems that you commented out in Step 1.

4. Install any required Solaris software patches and hardware-related patches, and download any needed firmware that is contained in the hardware patches.

   ---

   Note –

   Do not reboot the node until Step 5.

   ---

5. Reboot the node into noncluster mode.

   Include the double dashes (--) in the following command:

   # reboot -- -x

Next Steps

Upgrade dependency software. Go to How to Upgrade Dependency Software Before a Rolling Upgrade.