Oracle Solaris and the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC can be automatically installed on SPARC servers over the network using Solaris Automated Installer (AI). This allows for the rapid deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC across multiple SPARC systems, reducing administrative overhead and the likelihood of configuration or installation errors. Solaris AI is described in detail in the document titled Installing Oracle Solaris 11.3 Systems at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54756/useaipart.html
In this section we assume that you already have a sufficient understanding of Solaris AI and are able to set up an Install Server to deploy Solaris to your SPARC systems. This section highlights the additional steps that you need to perform to ensure that the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC and any other required packages are also installed and configured on your SPARC systems.
To set up and configure SPARC AI for rapid deployment of Oracle VM Server for SPARC across multiple SPARC systems, the following steps must be taken:
Set up an IPS repository with the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC software.
Create an Oracle Solaris Installation Service.
Create an installation manifest for Oracle VM Agent for SPARC.
Create a configuration profile for the installation of Oracle VM Server for SPARC.
Install Oracle VM Server for SPARC on your SPARC hardware.
If you have not already installed the DLM package, you should download and install it before you install Oracle VM Agent. The DLM package is required to support server pool clustering.
Download the DLM package,
ovs-dlm-3.4.,
from
https://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm.
For more information about downloading software, see
Section 1.2, “Getting Installation ISOs and Packages”.
x-bxxx.p5p
You can add the DLM package to an IPS repository and install from there. See Section 3.2.2, “Setting up an IPS repository”.
To install the DLM package, do the following:
Stop the ovs-config service:
# svcadm disable -s ovs-config
Install the DLM package:
# pkg install -g ovs-dlm-
3.4.x-bxxx.p5p dlmRestart the ovs-config service:
# svcadm enable ovs-config
In addition to installing Solaris, your IPS repository must be configured to install the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC software. To do this, you must set up an IPS repository that contains the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC software packages to be used during the installation.
To set up an IPS repository for Oracle VM Agent for SPARC
If you have not already created a package repository that is accessible over HTTP, you must create one by performing the following actions on the system where you intend to host your repositories:
# pkgrepo create
/path/to/my-repository# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/path/to/my-repository# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/port=8888 # svcadm refresh application/pkg/server # svcadm enable application/pkg/serverCheck that the package repository server is online:
# svcs pkg/server STATE STIME FMRI online
timestampsvc:/application/pkg/server:defaultDownload the latest Oracle VM Agent for SPARC software from https://edelivery.oracle.com/oraclevm, as described in Section 1.2, “Getting Installation ISOs and Packages”.
Extract the software, for example:
# tar xzf ovs-ldoms-3.4.
x-bxxx.tar.gzCopy the software to the package repository, for example:
# pkgrecv -s ovs-ldoms-3.4.
x-bxxx/ovs-ldoms.p5p -d/path/to/my-repository'ovm/*' # pkgrecv -s ovs-dlm-3.4.x-bxxx.p5p -d/path/to/my-repository'ovm/*'Restart the package repository server and ensure that it is online:
# svcadm restart application/pkg/server # svcs pkg/server
If the package repository server is in maintenance status, clear the service:
# svcadm clear pkg/server
Check that the contents of the repository are available, for example:
# pkgrepo list -s
/path/to/my-repository# pkgrepo list -shttp://my-repo-server:8888/
To install Oracle Solaris 11.3 over the network, you must create an Oracle Solaris installation service using the installadm create-service command.
The Automatic Installation (AI) tools package provides the installadm command. You can install the AI tools package with the pkg install install/installadm command.
For instructions to create an Oracle Solaris installation service, see Installing Oracle Solaris 11.3 Systems at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54756/useaipart.html
After the procedure is completed, you can check that your installation service is correctly set up by using the installadm list command. The output from this command should look similar to the following:
# installadm list Service Name Alias Of Status Arch Image Path ------------ -------- ------ ---- ----------solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc- on sparc/export/auto_install/solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc
In the example output, the installation service is
solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc.
To download the software, refer to Oracle Solaris 11.3 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index ID 2045311.1 from My Oracle Support, available at:
https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2045311.1
Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.3 has been integrated into Oracle Solaris 11.3.
You need to create a custom XML AI manifest file to install an configure the Oracle VM Agent automatically. For more information about custom XML AI manifest file, see Customizing an XML AI Manifest File at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54756/gmfbv.html#scrolltoc
Create an Installation Manifest
Start by copying the default manifest of your install service:
# installadm list -n solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc -m Service/Manifest Name Status Criteria --------------------- ------ -------- solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc orig_default Default None # installadm export -n solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc -m orig_default -o manifest_ai_ovm.xmlOpen the exported
manifest_ai_ovm.xmlin a text editor and customize it in the following way:In the <source> section, make sure that a Solaris publisher is defined and that it points to a Solaris IPS repository for the Solaris 11.3 version that also contains the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Release 3.3 or higher packages. For example:
<publisher name="solaris"> <origin name="http://solaris-11-repository"/> </publisher>
In the <source> section, add the Oracle VM (ovm) publisher with a reference to the IPS repository that you have set up with Oracle VM Agent for SPARC software. For example:
<publisher name="ovm"> <origin name="http://my-repo-server:8888"/> </publisher>
In the <software_data> install section, add the following lines to have the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC software and the DLM software installed:
<name>pkg:/ovm/ovs-agent</name> <name>pkg:/ovm/dlm</name>
Add the manifest to the installation service. In addition, you can specify criteria associated with this manifest. This manifest is only applicable to SPARC sun4v system, so you should at least use the sun4v criteria:
# installadm create-manifest -n solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc -f manifest_ai_ovm.xml -m ovm -c \ arch="sun4v" # installadm list -m -n solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc Service/Manifest Name Status Criteria --------------------- ------ -------- solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc ovm arch = sun4v orig_default Default None
To have the server automatically configured after the installation, you need to provide a configuration profile. For more information about creating a configuration profile, see Creating System Configuration Profiles at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54756/syscfg-2.html
To create a configuration profile, run the interactive
configuration tool and save the output to a file. The following
command creates a valid profile in
profile_ovm.xml from responses you enter
interactively:
# sysconfig create-profile -o profile_ovm.xml
In the interactive configuration tool, you must select the option to configure the network manually or it will not be possible to automatically configure Oracle VM Agent for SPARC using the installation service.
To have the Oracle VM Agent for SPARC configured automatically during the
installation, add the following section inside the
<service_bundle> section
of the generated profile_ovm.xml file:
<service version="1" type="service" name="ovm/ovs-config">
<instance enabled="true" name="default">
<property_group type="application" name="config">
<propval type="astring" name="password" value="encrypted-password"/>
<propval type="boolean" name="autoconfig" value="true"/>
</property_group>
</instance>
</service>
Replace the encrypted-password value
with the encrypted version of the password that you want to use
for the Oracle VM Agent.
You can generate the encrypted version of the password on any system using the following command:
# python -c "import crypt, sys; print crypt.crypt(sys.argv[-1], \
'\$6\$%s\$' % sys.argv[-2])" $(pwgen -s 16 1) password
Substitute password with the password
that you want to use for the Oracle VM Agent, for example:
# python -c "import crypt, sys; print crypt.crypt(sys.argv[-1], \
'\$6\$%s\$' % sys.argv[-2])" $(pwgen -s 16 1) s3cr3tp4ssw0rd
$6$-c$pgcCqd6Urrepi9EzdK93x5XSpyiNzup7SAcDNjVOtsqm6HFNeg385wMu1GjE.J.S.FL8J7gtl5VZnq7tOAd/N0
The output from this command is the
encrypted-password value that you
should substitute in the section that you added to the
configuration profile.
Finally, add the configuration profile to the installation service. In addition, you can specify criteria associated with this profile. This profile is only applicable to SPARC sun4v system, so you should at least use the sun4v criteria:
# installadm create-profile -n solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc --file profile_ovm.xml -c arch=sun4v # installadm list -p Service/Profile Name Criteria -------------------- -------- solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc profile_ovm.xml arch = sun4v
For more information about installing a server with the Solaris Auto-Install, see Installing Client Systems at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54756/client.html
On the installation server, you must associate the MAC address of each server, that you wish to install, with the installation service that you have set up. This is achieved by running the following command:
# installadm create-client -n solaris11_3_12_5_0-sparc -e mac-address
Substitute mac-address with the
actual MAC address for the network interface on the server that
is used to connect to the installation service.
On your target servers, if you have configured your DHCP to provide the information for the installation service, you can issue the following command at boot:
ok boot net:dhcp - install
If you have not configured DHCP, on your target server issue the following commands at boot:
ok setenv network-boot-arguments host-ip=client-ip,router-ip=router-ip,\ subnet-mask=subnet-mask,hostname=hostname,\ file=http://install-server-ip-address:5555/cgi-bin/wanboot-cgi ok boot net - install
Substitute client-ip with the IP
address that you intend to allocate to the server,
router-ip with the IP address of your
router or default gateway,
subnet-mask with the subnet mask of
your network, and hostname with the
hostname that you wish to use for your server. Finally, ensure
that the URL that you provide for the file
parameter matches the URL to access your Solaris AI server.