Since the patch process will configure the new kernel extensions, ensure that no vxvm volumes are in use or open or mounted before starting the installation procedure 2. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. Managing the sun os became easier with solaris 10 compared to its predecessors. Before i could achieve competence in all the good it had to offer such as dtrace, zfs, zones etc, i drifted into storage administration.
Hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease, which means, upgrade till one version before. Removing the os from veritas volume manager control. On jun 30, 2019, sort delivered a release with the following features and enhancements. A vxvm volume appears to applications and the operating system as a physical disk on which file systems, databases and other managed data objects can be configured. After installation of veritasconfigure of san filesystem under veritas i want to install sun cluster 3. Apply to 31 veritas volume manager jobs on, indias no.
Vxvm volume operations on shared volumes cause unnecessary read i os on the disks that have both configuration copy and log copy disabled on slaves. Disk groups are not imported automatically in server. Provide aix os patching for aix lparswpars, vio lpars, linux os patching and frame firmware updates hacmppowerha 5. But if want to give solaris interview,then you should be familiar with veritas volume manager. Clustering, veritas volume manager vvm, logical volume manager lvm, patching. It will reboot vms after patching, email you reports, etc. We do gen 2 vms all day long for testing purposes as well as production and never have any issues on the initial install but sometimes when we load up the patches we have to disable to secure boot to let the patches apply then reenable afterward. Sort home veritas services and operations readiness tools. Supporting hp servers hp dl380 gen 8, hp dl380 gen 9 s1, s5a, s5b s5c and ilo management. This table does not include external packages from usrpkg. Solaris 10 x86 kernel patching with vxvm mohamed musthaq. How to upgrade when running veritas vxvm oracle solaris. Hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease, which means, upgrade till one version before the latest one.
Vxvm commands get hung waiting for these network ios to drain or rlink to be disconnected. Use the installp or smit to install the patch image. Linux server build both rhel 6 and 7 which involves hw planning, os patching, installation of infra tools and hardening as per bank standards and deploy applicationdatabase according to application requirement. Introducing veritas foundation suite for aix ibm redbooks. Kernel logs contain configuration changes, including information about log types of vxvm disks a simple disk is a disk that is created dynamically in the kernel and has public and private regions that are contiguous inside a single partition. The unnecessary disk read i os are generated on slaves when vxvm is refreshing the private region information into memory during vxvm transaction. For urlbased patching, by default the vcenter server appliance is configured to use the default vmware repository url that is preset for the build profile of the appliance. After applying all available patches and the necessary reboot the vm is stuck at updating your system 6% on a. The size of the configuration database is approximately 70 percent of the private region. Recovery of diskgroup in vxvm veritas volume manager. How to use vxvm and solaris live upgrade to install. How to use vxvm and solaris live upgrade to install patches on encapsulated root disk.
You can configure a custom repository url as the current source of patches for your environments requirements. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. Bash scripting for the automation of various backup processes. The sun alert patch cluster contains solaris operating system os patches only. The viu client will be installed along with the virtual infrastructure vi client and you can start the application by selecting the shortcut all programs\vmware\vmware infrastructure update. The procedure to replace a failed disk under vxvm is quite simple. Upgrading storage foundation only both encapsulated and unencapsulated root disk upgrading solaris os only both encapsulated and unencapsulated root disk.
Patching windows server 2012r2 gen2 virtual machine on. How to upgrade when running veritas vxvm oracle solaris 10 1. However, vxvm fail to consider them for as part of its disk resize operation thus issuing ios and. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Here we will see about vxvm volume related interview questions. When you use live upgrade while upgrading and running veritas vxvm, the system panics on reboot unless. I was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease, which means, upgrade till one version before the latest one. Master note for asm for os administrators id 45562. Patches released after the general availability of a release, such as the. Unix, hitachi storage, linux, veritas cluster server, vcs. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas.
Ive been particularly focused on the difficulties sun and its customers have with the patching process, and the kinds of changes we need to make as a. If vxvm volumes are configured on your current system, the lucreate. Patching esxi with vmware infrastructure update client viu is quit easy. In solaris 11, the os command devlinks which used to add dev entries stalled for a long time in post installation of vxvm. Fails to start after rebooting the system by ramdev published may 24, 2011 updated august 22, 2015 upon boottime startup, the veritas volume manager configuration daemon vxconfigd scans all the disks and reads the private regions on the disks. Failed disk replacement in vxvm unix bits and bites. You can read the user guide, automate linux vm os updates using ospatching extension outdated, needs to update. Unix, vxvm, linux server, virtualization, os clustering.
If its starts then it will try to bring up the cluster resource and it will kill your time. Documentation home sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os chapter 11 backing up and restoring a cluster. Alex istrate technical lead unixlinux atos linkedin. When you use live upgrade while upgrading and running veritas vxvm, the system panics on reboot unless you upgrade by using the following procedure. For those of you that havent run into this issue yet, you will if you attempt to install this particular update on a windows server 2012 or windows 8. Volume manager on linux, patch detail sort veritas. Vxvm snapshots hewlett packard enterprise community. What i only know is that need to make use of live upgrade and be careful with vxvm running on it.
Solaris os patching on vcs or svm set up here i am providing step by step patching plan for vcs cluster setup environment. Hyperv gen 2 vm unable to boot from iso file to install os. If youre finding this post, its possible or maybe even likely that youve tried to install kb2871690 onto a generation 2 windows server 2012 virtual machine on a hyperv host, and the installation failed. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. Ditto with linux redhetsuse and veritas volume manager vxvm and veritas cluster server vcs. How to patch a live system mirrored with svm blogo thnet. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. After the os patching,if the system is not coming up in new patch level,then we have a valid mirror disk to boot the system in older configuration. Darwin is the open source foundation for mac os x, descended from nextstep. How to change a volume usage type from gen to fsgen in veritas storage foundation.
I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Take all the configuration screenshot backup as well as explorer save it to your local laptop 4. Chapter 11 backing up and restoring a cluster sun cluster. Subashkumaran rajendran senior unix system administrator.
May 29, 20 rethinking patching the view from the engine room by barts jul 25, 2007 as stephen mentioned recently, several of us have been thinking about revising the way we manage software change on solaris. Allows the owner of the azure vm to configure a linux vm patching schedule cycle or perform os patching ondemand as a onetime task. Iim lucknow general management programme for executives gmpe 18 201920. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Veritas volume manager administrators guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. Cft1895 incorrect audit counts in case of blacklist and whitelist policies for certain scenarios cft1901 indexcheckjob fails after upgrade to 6. Patching and upgrading your cluster managing your oracle. If you install the oracle solaris 10 811 os on a system that does not currently include a service or. The os command devfsadm should be used in the postinstall script. There are many circumstances in which it may be necessary to remove the operating system from veritas volume manager control. For years, veritas included the command vxunroot to accomplish this task. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method.
The problem occurs if packages do not conform to oracle solaris advanced packaging guidelines. How to change a volume usage type from gen to fsgen in. Solaris volume manager and veritas volume manager, and which version. For general guidelines about the amount of disk space required, refer to the. Now in case of vxvm if a disk in a disk groups fails we can replace it online if its mirrored.
Hi experts, i want to install veritas foundation suite 5. Make a volume named rootalt with usage type gen and associate plex rootvol02. Another think you need to make sure that vcs shouldnt start in the os start up. Solaris 10 patching using live upgrade with vxvm hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease, which means, upgrade till one version before the latest one. The solaris operating system os software is delivered and installed with svr4 packages. However the corresponding efi specific build time definition in veritas kernel io driver vxio was not updated in solaris 10 in vxvm 5. It can actually do what you want take a snapshot before the job. Apply security patches regularly enable the auto update feature resources. In my solaris 10 servers the root file system will be mirrored in svm. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. The code is modified to replace devlinks with devfsadm in the post installation process of vxvm. Understanding veritas volume manager veritas tm volume manager vxvm by symantec is a storage management subsystem that allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. There are few potential hurdles to overcome when patching a new virtual machine running windows server 2012r2 utilising the generation 2 format of hyperv. Vvr can not allow more than 2048 ios outstanding on the srl volume.
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