How to Upgrade to a Solaris Maintenance Update Release (Rolling)

Perform this procedure to upgrade the Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 operating environment to a supported Maintenance Update release.

To upgrade a cluster from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 software, with or without upgrading Sun Cluster software as well, you must perform a nonrolling upgrade. Go to Upgrading to Sun Cluster 3.1 10/03 Software (Nonrolling).

1. Ensure that all steps in How to Prepare the Cluster for Upgrade (Rolling) are completed.

2. Temporarily comment out all entries for globally mounted file systems in the /etc/vfstab file.

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

3. Follow instructions in your installation procedures for the Solaris Maintenance Update version you are upgrading to.

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   Do not reboot the node when prompted to reboot.

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4. Uncomment all entries in the /a/etc/vfstab file for globally mounted file systems that you commented out in Step 2.

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

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   Do not reboot the node until Step 6.

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6. Reboot the node into noncluster mode.

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

   # reboot -- -x

7. Upgrade the Sun Cluster software.

   Go to How to Upgrade to Sun Cluster 3.1 10/03 Software (Rolling).