Upgrade Host Drivers for Oracle Solaris 11.3

When you upgrade your host from Oracle Solaris 11.2 to Oracle Solaris 11.3, you must uninstall the existing host drivers and then reinstall them.

Before upgrading the host drivers, you must determine if the minimum requirements are fulfilled.

• The Oracle Solaris hosts must have at least one dual-port Oracle ConnectX2 QDR HCA.

• The HCA installed in the host must be running the firmware version 2.11.x or more.

• You must have root permissions on the Oracle Solaris host.

1. Halt all network and storage traffic.

   For example, set the interfaces to down state, and wait for network and storage traffic to quiesce.

2. Unset the publisher by using the pkg unset-publisher command and specifying the directory where the host driver file exists.

   root@netra:~# pkg unset-publisher /usr/ORCLovn

   where usr is the user-defined location.

3. Remove the currently installed host drivers by using the pkg uninstall command and specifying the host driver file name.

   root@netra:~# pkg uninstall ORCLovn-drv

4. Reboot the Oracle Solaris server to clear the host drivers from memory.
5. Set the Oracle Solaris publisher to point to the new Oracle Solaris OS image packaging system (IPS) repository for updating.

   root@netra:~# pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release

6. Update the system to the new version of the Oracle Solaris 11.3 OS.

   root@netra:~# pkg update --accept

7. Reboot the Oracle Solaris host.
8. Install the host drivers.

   See Install Host Drivers for Oracle Solaris 11.3.