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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
January 2013
This book describes how to use Live Upgrade to create and upgrade new boot environments.
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Preface
Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
Where to Find Planning and System Requirement Information
2. Live Upgrade (Overview)
Live Upgrade Introduction
Live Upgrade Process
Creating a Boot Environment
File System Types
Creating RAID-1 Volumes on File Systems
Copying File Systems
Examples of Creating a New Boot Environment
Creating a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volume File Systems
Managing Volumes With Live Upgrade
Mapping Solaris Volume Manager Tasks to Live Upgrade
Examples of Using Live Upgrade to Create RAID-1 Volumes
Create RAID-1 Volume on Two Physical Disks
Create a Boot Environment and Use the Existing Submirror
Upgrading a Boot Environment
Auto Registration Impact for Live Upgrade
What Is Auto Registration?
When Does Auto Registration Affect Live Upgrade?
Activating a Boot Environment
Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
Maintaining a Boot Environment
3. Live Upgrade (Planning)
Live Upgrade Requirements
Live Upgrade System Requirements
Installing Live Upgrade
Required Packages
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
Checking the Status of Volumes
Detaching Volumes and Resynchronizing Mirrors
Using Solaris Volume Manager Commands
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)
Installing Live Upgrade and Creating Boot Environments (Task Map)
Installing Live Upgrade
How to Install Live Upgrade With the
pkgadd
Command
How to Install Live Upgrade With the Oracle Solaris Installation Program
Installing Patches Needed by Live Upgrade
How to Install Required Patches
Creating a New Boot Environment
How to Create a Boot Environment for the First Time
How to Create a Boot Environment and Merge File Systems
How to Create a Boot Environment and Split File Systems
How to Create a Boot Environment and Reconfiguring Swap
How to Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap by Using a List
How to Create a Boot Environment and Copy a Shareable File System
How to Create a Boot Environment From a Different Source
How to Create an Empty Boot Environment for a Flash Archive
How to Create a Boot Environment With RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
Creating a Boot Environment and Customizing the Content
5. Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)
Upgrading a Boot Environment (Task Map)
Upgrading a Boot Environment
Guidelines for Upgrading
Upgrading a System With Packages or Patches
How to Upgrade a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
How to Upgrade a Network Installation Image From Multiple CDs
Adding Packages to or Removing Packages From a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
Adding Patches to or Removing Patches From a Network Installation Image on a Boot Environment
Checking Packages Installed on a Boot Environment
Upgrading by Using a JumpStart Profile
How to Create a Profile to be Used by Live Upgrade
How to Test a Profile to Be Used by Live Upgrade
How to Upgrade With a Profile by Using Live Upgrade
JumpStart Keyword Values
Installing Flash Archives on a Boot Environment
How to Install a Flash Archive on a Boot Environment
How to Install a Flash Archive With a Profile
How to Install a Flash Archive With a Profile Keyword
Activating a Boot Environment
Requirements and Limitations for Activating a Boot Environment
How to Activate a Boot Environment
How to Activate a Boot Environment and Synchronize Files
x86: Activating a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
x86: How to Activate a Boot Environment With the GRUB Menu
6. Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
SPARC: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
SPARC: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation
SPARC: To Fall Back to the Original Boot Environment by Using a DVD, CD, or Net Installation Image
x86: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment
x86: To Fall Back Despite Successful New Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu
x86: To Fall Back From a Failed Boot Environment Activation With the GRUB Menu and the DVD or CD
7. Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
Overview of Live Upgrade Maintenance
Maintenance Activities for Boot Environments
Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments
Updating a Previously Configured Boot Environment
Canceling a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
Comparing Boot Environments
Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment
Displaying the Name of the Active Boot Environment
Changing the Name of a Boot Environment
Adding or Changing a Description Associated With a Boot Environment Name
Viewing the Configuration of a Boot Environment
8. Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Upgrading With Live Upgrade and Installed Non-Global Zones (Overview)
Understanding Oracle Solaris Zones and Live Upgrade
Guidelines for Using Live Upgrade With Non-Global Zones (Planning)
Creating a Boot Environment When a Non-Global Zone Is on a Separate File System
Creating and Upgrading a Boot Environment When Non-Global Zones Are Installed (Tasks)
Upgrading With Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System (Tasks)
Upgrading a System With Non-Global Zones Installed (Example)
Upgrading With Live Upgrade When Non-Global Zones Are Installed on a System
Administering Boot Environments That Contain Non-Global Zones
To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment's Non-Global Zone File Systems
To Compare Boot Environments for a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Using the
lumount
Command on a System That Contains Non-Global Zones
9. Live Upgrade Examples
Example of Upgrading With Live Upgrade
Preparing to Use Live Upgrade
Using Pre Flight Checker Tool
To Create a Boot Environment
To Upgrade the Inactive Boot Environment
To Check if Boot Environment Is Bootable
To Activate the Inactive Boot Environment
(Optional) To Fall Back to the Source Boot Environment
Example of Detaching and Upgrading One Side of a RAID-1 Volume (Mirror)
Example of Migrating From an Existing Volume to a Solaris Volume Manager RAID-1 Volume
Example of Creating an Empty Boot Environment and Installing a Flash Archive
To Create an Empty Boot Environment
To Install a Flash Archive on the New Boot Environment
To Activate the New Boot Environment
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
10. Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
What's New in Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release
Introduction to Using Live Upgrade With ZFS
Migrating From a UFS File System to a ZFS Root Pool
Migrating From a UFS Root (
/
) File System to ZFS Root Pool
Migrating a UFS File System With Solaris Volume Manager Volumes Configured to a ZFS Root File System
Creating a New Boot Environment From a ZFS Root Pool
Creating a New Boot Environment Within the Same Root Pool
Creating a New Boot Environment on Another Root Pool
Creating a New Boot Environment From a Source Other Than the Currently Running System
Creating a ZFS Boot Environment on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
11. Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
System Requirements and Limitations When Using Live Upgrade
12. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
Migrating a UFS File System to a ZFS File System
How to Migrate a UFS File System to a ZFS File System
Creating a Boot Environment Within the Same ZFS Root Pool
How to Create a ZFS Boot Environment Within the Same ZFS Root Pool
Creating a Boot Environment In a New Root Pool
How to Create a Boot Environment on a New ZFS Root Pool
Creating a Boot Environment From a Source Other Than the Currently Running System
Falling Back to a ZFS Boot Environment
13. Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
Creating a ZFS Boot Environment on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed (Overview and Planning)
Migrating From a UFS Root (
/
) File System With Non-Global Zones Installed to ZFS Root Pool (Tasks)
How to Migrate a UFS File System to a ZFS Root Pool on a System With Non-Global Zones
Part III Appendices
A. Live Upgrade Command Reference
B. Troubleshooting (Tasks)
Problems With Setting Up Network Installations
Problems With Booting a System
Error Messages When Booting From Media
General Problems When Booting From Media
Booting From the Network, Error Messages
General Problems When Booting From the Network
Initial Installation of the Oracle Solaris OS
x86: How to Check an IDE Disk for Bad Blocks
Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS
Upgrading Error Messages
General Problems When Upgrading
How to Continue Upgrading After a Failed Upgrade
x86: Problems With Live Upgrade When You Use GRUB
System Panics When Upgrading With Live Upgrade Running Veritas VxVm
How to Upgrade When Running Veritas VxVm
x86: Service Partition Not Created by Default on Systems With No Existing Service Partition
How to Include a Service Partition When Installing Software From a Network Installation Image or From the Oracle Solaris Operating System DVD
How to Include a Service Partition When Installing From the Oracle Solaris Software - 1 CD or From a Network Installation Image
C. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
Preventing Modification of the Current OS
Using Absolute Paths
Using the
pkgadd
-R
Command
Differences Between
$PKG_INSTALL_ROOT
and
$BASEDIR
Guidelines for Writing Scripts
Maintaining Diskless Client Compatibility
Verifying Packages
Preventing User Interaction When Installing or Upgrading
Setting Package Parameters For Zones
For Further Information
D. Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)
Upgrading to an Oracle Solaris Update Release
How to Use the
analyze_patches
Script
Glossary
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