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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade     Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library
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Preface

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

Part II Understanding Installations Related to ZFS, Booting, Oracle Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes

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

Live Upgrade and ZFS Installation

JumpStart 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)

Glossary

Index

Oracle Solaris Installation Programs for Installing ZFS Root Pools

The following installation programs perform an initial installation of a ZFS root pool.

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.

Text Installer and ZFS Installation

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:

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

Live Upgrade and ZFS Installation

You can use the Live Upgrade feature to perform the following tasks:

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

JumpStart and ZFS Installation

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:

See the following resources for more information: