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

Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade

1.  Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information

2.  Live Upgrade (Overview)

3.  Live Upgrade (Planning)

4.  Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)

5.  Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)

6.  Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)

7.  Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)

8.  Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed

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)

11.  Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)

12.  Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools

13.  Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed

Part III Appendices

A.  Live Upgrade Command Reference

B.  Troubleshooting (Tasks)

C.  Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)

D.  Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Chapter 9

Live Upgrade Examples

This chapter provides examples of creating a boot environment, then upgrading and activating the new boot environment which then becomes the currently running system.


Note - This chapter describes Live Upgrade for UFS file systems. For procedures for migrating a UFS file system to a ZFS root pool or creating and installing a ZFS root pool, see Chapter 12, Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools.


This chapter contains the following sections: