In solaris mirroring, when you want to do the mirroring, the another disk is of the same size or more then the size of the base disk. Now in case of losing any state database replica svm determines the valid state database replica by using majority consensus algorithm. Creating full system backups of your oracle solaris systems have never been more crucial. That option is great for taking the repository on the road and even sharing it with folks at conferences where the internet connection usually sucks however, a more practical use of this repository image to many of you may be setting up a local mirror. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. With storage innovations such as zfs and solaris volume manager svm, you can tailor your storage for the best possible io performance and system availability using striping, mirroring, specific disk placement, etc. Configuring xserver display for oracle solaris 11 asgaur. Oracle solaris 10 installation on vmware workstation youtube. In this step you need to make sure of disks on both nodes, in my case i am using emc storage. Solaris 11 administration vs solaris 10 administration ars.
X11 are not part of the default solaris 11setup, and if you want stuff like oracle database you may feel the urge of having x11 to perform the installation. On solaris 11, reflection for secure it installation uses the image packaging system ips. Here we will see the learning path for oracle solaris 11. Jun 11, 20 installation of solaris 11 step by step guide june 11, 20 by lingeswaran r 3 comments many of the solaris beginners will be wondering that how to install solaris 11. Disk mirroring using solaris volume manager azizs blog.
Jul 25, 20 if you already installed solaris 11 for example in a virtual box vm, you may want to install x11 libs. Repository mirroring whats new in oracle solaris 11. Please do not mirror these development repositories. How to set up a repository mirroring service with the oracle. Solaris volume manager administration guide pdf comprehensive data management using solaris volume manager software.
In my server, i have three different nic adapters placed. This is quite a large pkg group that provides most of the software youd need on a server. Quick links to ips repositories sfe software packages for solaris. Similar to a download mirror to a file on the internet. Aziz on january 11, 2009 from wikipedia, solaris volume manager svm. The firmware will contain the alom cmt, post, obp, and hypervisor updates. Jul 31, 2009 hi tyson, its not a clear answer, but an idea that we tested here at chosug and is working fine, with brians procedure installing an ips server as a mirror for release in a zone, here called ips installing an ips server from the latest build full iso image in a separate zone, here called ipsdev.
I do a nat using ipfilter and all was working good, until i by nilton on this entry. This procedure describes a method of mirroring the root pool using zfs functions. Disk mirroring using solaris volume manager posted by s. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository the geek.
How to configure xorg included in the oracle solaris os. Part 8 mirroring the zfs root pool oracle community. The ufs luns were mounted onto zfs mountpoints in the root partition, and then lofs mounted into the zones. Solaris 10 update 3 hw 1106 or solaris express build 57 or higher installed. Here will be used already installed os and all the work will be done without need of reinstallprerequisites1. After that the data sync with the another disk which is in mirroring. The state database contains the configuration and status information of all volumes, hot spares and disk sets. Solaris would install fine on drive 0, then raidctl would quite happily build the mirror on drive 1 while the system was running with a slight io performance impact of course. Oracle solaris 11 makes zfs its default filesystem. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek diary. If you already installed solaris 11 for example in a virtual box vm, you may want to install x11 libs.
Need a procedure document to do root disk mirroring in solaris volume manager for solaris 10. As i state in my initial posted question, no mirroring, no encryption, no dedup, etc vanilla install of the os. For example, lets say you had a package repository. By default, the mirror service transfers packages from the solaris publisher. The contents can be printed or downloaded for personal use only. How can i know the firmware version of nic adapters in solaris 11. I dont think the zfs ondisk structure interferes with clonzillas ability to do the cloning. I am planning to construct one raid1 mirror with zfs just like previous solaris 10 x86 installation. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole of the solarisdesktop group. In this article, we will look at the new repository mirroring service that has been included in oracle solaris 11. Beginners guide to solaris 11 image packaging system ips the. Install terraform by unzipping it and moving it to a directory included in your systems path.
Disk mirroring using solaris disk manager raid 1 volumes. You can download the package and prerequisite packages with. Where are x11 libs after a solaris 11 fresh install data. How to automatically copy a repository from the internet copying. Disk mirroring for solaris 10 x86 my main problem is that the volumes and slices have already been setup and our proprietary software has already been installed and configured.
However, popular packages are updated frequently and by subscriber request, more up to date packages may be also be present for other versions of solaris. Jan 14, 2016 solaris 10 mirroring zfs root pool duration. Our complete database resides on the ibm data array, in ufs luns. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Solaris x86 root filesystem mirroringcontents 1 preamble 2 prerequisites 3 lvm 4 boot 5 conclusionpreamblethis document is directed to give idea how to create mirroring of root filesystem in solaris x86 with the help of solaris volume manager. Installation of solaris 11step by step guide june 11, 20 by lingeswaran r 3 comments many of the solaris beginners will be wondering that how to install solaris 11.
Mirroring ips repositories oracle solaris blog oracle blogs. He worked as an employee and a contracted instructor at sun microsystems, inc. Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on gzip. After the install, just reboot the system to login into the desktop gui. From the directory that contains the extracted files, run the pkgmogrify command using the syntax shown here. Be advised that the packages on unix packages are only available through a paid subscription service, as this new site is not. The entire drive has been allocated in this configuration and the metadb command seems to fail everytime i try to setup the database replica. The install by default creates a backup boot environment, so that you can roll back any time to a state before installing the desktop package. I want to know whether the firmware has been successfully upgraded and reflected in os or not. The solaris volume manager provides the ability to create devices from disk slices that provide optional data striping raid 0, mirroring raid 1, parity disks raid 5 and software partitions softparts for enhanced performance, flexibility and. Philip brown collected this information from newsgroup postings, and form submissions through the website. Solaris 10 update 3 hw 11 06 or solaris express build 57 or higher installed.
Now that we have the base release of solaris 11 in our repo, apply it the latest updates. Ips is similar to the linux world with repositories yum, apt, etc. Zfs is a 128bit transactional filesystem offered by oracle solaris 11, and it supports 256 trillion directory entries, does not have any upper limit of files, and is always consistent on disk. I am installing the new solaris 11 on my dell tower desktop workstation with two 3tb sata hard drives. Alexandre borges is an oracle ace in solaris and has been teaching courses on oracle solaris since 2001. Supported raid controllers this download supports intel raid controllers using sas software stack rms3cc080. In listing 1 below, we will use the m latest option to retrieve the latest versions of all packagesas opposed to fetching every package regardless of the versionsas denoted by the match for the package fault management resource identifier fmri. How to set up a repository mirroring service with the. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11.
Administrators can use the pkgrecv command to retrieve packages from one repository to another. Svm root encapsulation and mirroring sparc the geek diary. If you need to repartition the disk and create a slice 0, see modifying slices or partitions in managing devices in oracle solaris 11. Software can be installed from oracles ips package repositories. Oracle solaris 11 includes a vast library of free and open source software foss including utilities, services, productivity and developer tools.
This provides administrators with an easy, automated way of mirroring repository contents. Clients that install and update packages from a mirror repository must still download metadata from an. Solaris laptop list x86 this page is a place to keep track of solaris compatible laptops. For root mirroring in solaris,see full information. For example, on a default oracle solaris 11 installation, only datasets under. Package names that are nonbold andor with no version number, are not currently available for this version of solaris. On the solaris 11 environment we built two branded solaris 10 zones using an oracle template provided on the oracle website solaris10u11sparc. Installation of solaris 11step by step guide unixarena. Install and uninstall on oracle solaris 11 reflection. After using lots of installation media of solaris 11, i didnt find the options to create raid1 mirror on zfs root partition pool. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole. Disksuitevolumemanager or zpool mirroring on solaris. To mirror the rpool disk, including all its file systems and any snapshots in it, to a new disk named c8t3d0, run the following command. Device start block dbase state reloc hot spare c1t0d0s0 0 no okay yes d12.
Installation of rsync on solaris 10, 910, paul eggleton. The xorg server is designed to configure automatically and can run in most situations without the need to edit configuration files. How to set up a repository mirroring service with the oracle solaris. Support for packages has been discontinued on sunfreeware. Configuring boot disks with solaris volume manager software october 2002 by erik vanden meersch and kristien hens.
By default, when you install solaris 11 onto a sparc system using the solaris text installer, the solarislargeserver pkg group is installed. Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on the network. You must load the corresponding firmware for your platform. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole of the solaris desktop group. Jan 11, 2009 disk mirroring using solaris volume manager posted by s. Other than general bug fixes and performance improvements, i thought a few changes would be worth mentioning in a bit more detail, so. We will also look at some of the new capabilities that have been designed around compliance to ensure that your systems are installed with only the software that you expect. Package sources, cswmgarpkgscreentrunkmakefile sourceforge, opengrok. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by lsof. Extract the zipfiles into some suitable location like vartmpsru. Local ips repositories copying and creating oracle solaris 11. Zfs oracle solaris 11 advanced administration cookbook.
To provide redundancy we create multiple copies of the state database called as state database replicas. Creating zfs storage pools and filesystems playing with zfs faults and properties creating a zfs snapshot and clone selection from oracle solaris 11 advanced administration cookbook book. To do this, you have to install this bunch of packages. Please visit our new website unix packages provides full package support for all levels of solaris from 2. Downloads tab server and storage system solaris solaris 10 2. Zfs in this chapter, we will cover the following recipes. Nov 04, 2014 x11 are not part of the default solaris 11 setup, and if you want stuff like oracle database you may feel the urge of having x11 to perform the installation.
Get started download packages packages see full software list. A mirror repository contains only package content files. Attach a second disk to configure a mirrored root pool. Solaris 11 administration vs solaris 10 administration. How to configure a mirrored root pool sparc or x86vtoc. By default, when you install solaris 11 onto a sparc system using the solaris text installer, the solaris largeserver pkg group is installed. In my previous entry i wrote about creating a portable version of the repository using a usb stick. List disk using usrsbinformat fdisk the raw disk using fdisk command. There is no much difference compare to solaris 10 using dvdcd installation method and you need to answer very less questions. The z and z options can be supplied to select specific zones into which we should recurse, or exclude certain zones from being operated upon.