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Sun Cluster Upgrade Guide for Solaris OS

ProcedureHow to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of a Solaris Maintenance Update

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

Note –

You cannot perform a rolling upgrade to upgrade a cluster from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 or 10 software or from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 software. Go to Choosing a Sun Cluster Upgrade Method to identify the appropriate upgrade method to use.

Before You Begin

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

  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.

    • On SPARC based systems, perform the following commands:


      phys-schost# shutdown -y -g0
ok boot -x

    • On x86 based systems, perform the following commands:

      1. In the GRUB menu, use the arrow keys to select the appropriate Solaris entry and type e to edit its commands.

        The GRUB menu appears similar to the following:


        GNU GRUB version 0.95 (631K lower / 2095488K upper memory)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Solaris 10 /sol_10_x86                                                  |
| Solaris failsafe                                                        |
|                                                                         |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
commands before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.

        For more information about GRUB based booting, see Booting an x86 Based System by Using GRUB (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

      2. In the boot parameters screen, use the arrow keys to select the kernel entry and type e to edit the entry.

        The GRUB boot parameters screen appears similar to the following:


        GNU GRUB version 0.95 (615K lower / 2095552K upper memory)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| root (hd0,0,a)                                                       |
| kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot                                     |
| module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive                                  |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press 'b' to boot, 'e' to edit the selected command in the
boot sequence, 'c' for a command-line, 'o' to open a new line
after ('O' for before) the selected line, 'd' to remove the
selected line, or escape to go back to the main menu.

      3. Add -x to the command to specify that the system boot into noncluster mode.


        [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ESC at any time exits. ]

grub edit> kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -x

      4. Press Enter to accept the change and return to the boot parameters screen.

        The screen displays the edited command.


        GNU GRUB version 0.95 (615K lower / 2095552K upper memory)
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| root (hd0,0,a)                                                       |
| kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -x                                  |
| module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive                                  |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press 'b' to boot, 'e' to edit the selected command in the
boot sequence, 'c' for a command-line, 'o' to open a new line
after ('O' for before) the selected line, 'd' to remove the
selected line, or escape to go back to the main menu.-

      5. Type b to boot the node into noncluster mode.

        Note –

        This change to the kernel boot parameter command does not persist over the system boot. The next time you reboot the node, it will boot into cluster mode. To boot into noncluster mode instead, perform these steps to again to add the -x option to the kernel boot parameter command.

Next Steps

Upgrade Sun Cluster software. Go to How to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of Sun Cluster 3.2 1/09 Software.