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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Overall Planning of an Oracle Solaris Installation or Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
2. Oracle Solaris Installation and Upgrade Roadmap
3. System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade Information
4. Gathering Information Before an Installation or Upgrade
5. ZFS Root File System Installation Planning
What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release for ZFS Installation
What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 Release for ZFS Installation
Requirements for Installing a ZFS Root Pool
Disk Space Requirements for a ZFS Installation
Oracle Solaris Installation Programs for Installing ZFS Root Pools
Text Installer and ZFS Installation
6. SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
7. Upgrading When Oracle Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System
8. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
9. Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
The following installation programs perform an initial installation of a ZFS root pool.
Oracle Solaris installation program text installer
JumpStart with an installation profile
Live Upgrade can migrate a UFS file system to a ZFS root pool. Also, Live Upgrade can create ZFS boot environments that can be upgraded.
The Oracle Solaris text installer performs an initial installation for a ZFS root pool. During the installation, you can choose to install either a UFS file system or a ZFS root pool. You can set up a mirrored ZFS root pool by selecting two or more slices during the installation. Or, you can attach or add additional disks after the installation to create a mirrored ZFS root pool. Swap and dump devices on ZFS volumes are automatically created in the ZFS root pool.
Note the following limitations:
The installation GUI is not available to install a ZFS root pool.
You cannot use the standard upgrade program to upgrade. You must use Live Upgrade to upgrade a ZFS root pool.
For more information, see Chapter 3, Installing With the Oracle Solaris Interactive Text Installer for ZFS Root Pools (Planning and Tasks), in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Basic Installations
You can use the Live Upgrade feature to perform the following tasks:
Migrate a UFS root (/) file system to a ZFS root pool
Create a new boot environment in the following ways:
Within an existing ZFS root pool
Within another ZFS root pool
From a source other than the currently running system
On a system with non-global zones installed
After you have used the lucreate command to create a ZFS boot environment, you can use the other Live Upgrade commands on the boot environment.Note that a storage pool must be created before you use the lucreate command.
For more information, see Chapter 10, Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview), in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
Starting with the Solaris 10 10/09 release, you can set up a JumpStart profile to identify a flash archive of a ZFS root pool. See What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 Release for ZFS Installation.
You can create a profile to create a ZFS storage pool and designate a bootable ZFS file system. New ZFS keywords provide an initial installation.
Note the following limitations:
You cannot use the install_type upgrade keyword to upgrade a ZFS root pool. You also cannot use the flash archive keywords.
Some keywords that are allowed in a UFS specific profile are not allowed in a ZFS specific profile.
See the following resources for more information:
For a quick reference about keywords that can be used in a ZFS installation, see Profile Keywords Quick Reference in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: JumpStart Installations.
For descriptions of ZFS keywords and profile examples, see Chapter 9, Installing a ZFS Root Pool With JumpStart, in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: JumpStart Installations.