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Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11.1     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 to an Oracle Solaris 11 Release (Overview)

2.  Transitioning to an Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Method

3.  Managing Devices

Device Identity and Configuration Changes

Changes to Device Driver Customization

Preparing Disks for ZFS Storage Pools

ZFS Root Pool Installation Improvements

ZFS Root Pool Device Requirements

ZFS Root Pool Disk and Boot Administration

Swap and Dump Device Configuration Changes

4.  Managing Storage Features

5.  Managing File Systems

6.  Managing Software and Boot Environments

7.  Managing Network Configuration

8.  Managing System Configuration

9.  Managing Security

10.  Managing Oracle Solaris Releases in a Virtual Environment

11.  Managing User Accounts and User Environments

12.  Managing Desktop Features

A.  SPARC Automated Installation Scenario

Device Identity and Configuration Changes

As in Oracle Solaris 10 releases, all supported devices that are connected to the system when it is installed should be accessible after installation. Devices can be configured with the cfgadm command and most devices are hot-pluggable, which means you can add and remove devices while the system is booted.

The new hotplug command is available for PCI Express (PCIe) and PCI SHPC (Standard Hot Plug Controller) devices that provides offline and online capabilities as well as enable and disable operations. You would still use the cfgadm command to manage hot pluggable USB and SCSI devices as in previous Oracle Solaris releases.

For more information, see Chapter 4, Dynamically Configuring Devices (Tasks), in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Devices and File Systems.

In this release, you can more easily identify devices by using the croinfo command to identify physical device location information.

You can use the following commands to display information by chassis, receptacle, and occupant values for the devices on your system:

In addition, you can use the fmadm add-alias command to include a disk alias name that helps you identify the physical location of disks in your environment. For example:

# fmadm add-alias SUN-Storage-J4200.0912QAJ001 J4200@RACK10:U26-27
# fmadm add-alias SUN-Storage-J4200.0905QAJ00E J4200@RACK10:U24-25

Use the diskinfo command to determine where a disk is located:

% diskinfo -c c0t24d0
D:devchassis-path                                    t:occupant-type  c:occupant-compdev
---------------------------------------------------  ---------------  ------------------
/dev/chassis/J4200@RACK10:U26-27/SCSI_Device__9/disk  disk             c0t24d0           

In this example, the /dev/chassis disk name includes an alias name that helps you locate the device in your environment.

The following diskinfo example shows how to display a specific disk's physical location.

$ diskinfo -c c0t24d0 -o cp
c:occupant-compdev  p:occupant-paths                                        
------------------  --------------------------------------------------------
c0t24d0             /devices/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@9/LSILogic,sas@0/sd@18,0

Note - The diskinfo command require that chassis support SES diagnostic page 0xa (Additional Element Status) and must set the Element Index Present (EIP) bit to 1. Enclosures that do not meet this criteria will not be fully enumerated, and thus, will not be properly represented.


Changes to Device Driver Customization

In Oracle Solaris 11, driver customizations are made in the /etc/driver/drv directory rather than in the /kernel directory as in previous releases. This improvement means that your driver customizations are not overwritten when the system is upgraded. The files in the /etc/driver/drv directory are preserved during the upgrade. Customizing a driver configuration usually means that a per-device parameter or global property that impacts all devices is added or modified.

For more information, see How to Customize a Driver Configuration in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Devices and File Systems.