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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
Live Upgrade System Requirements
Live Upgrade Disk Space Requirements
Live Upgrade Requirements If Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
Upgrading a System With Packages or Patches
Guidelines for Creating File Systems With the lucreate Command
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for File Systems
Guidelines for Selecting a Slice for the root (/) File System
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for Mirrored File Systems
General Guidelines When Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrored) File Systems
Guidelines for Selecting a Slice for a Swap Volume
Configuring Swap for the New Boot Environment
Failed Boot Environment Creation If Swap Is in Use
Guidelines for Selecting Slices for Shareable File Systems
Customizing a New Boot Environment's Content
Synchronizing Files Between Boot Environments
Adding Files to the /etc/lu/synclist File
Forcing a Synchronization Between Boot Environments
Booting Multiple Boot Environments
Live Upgrade Character User Interface
4. Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
5. Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)
6. Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
7. Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
8. Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
10. Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
11. Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
12. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
13. Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
A. Live Upgrade Command Reference
C. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
This chapter provides guidelines and requirements for review before installing and using Live Upgrade, a feature of Oracle Solaris. You also should review general information about upgrading in Upgrade Planning in Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade.
Note - This chapter describes Live Upgrade for UFS file systems. For planning information for migrating a UFS file system to a ZFS root pool or creating and installing a ZFS root pool, see Chapter 11, Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning).
This chapter contains the following sections: