Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Solaris zonecontainers interview questions unixarena. Patching issues on systems running solaris 10 update 1 106 or update 2 606. The global zone is still patched before the nonglobal zones are patched. Global zone global zones controls the hardware resources and are administrating the nonglobal zones. Upgrading with nonglobal zones oracle solaris 10 811. Solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. Oracle solaris 11 zone features transitioning from. Oracle solaris 11 administrators cheat sheet 3 file systems basic zfs administration oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. Solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone i am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. Create an install service from a downloaded iso file, specifying x86 based dhcp. Oracle solaris 11 cheat sheet general administration.
Here i would like to share interview questions regarding solaris zones which will be normally asked for l2 level candidates in solaris interviews. The following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11. For example, to remove the existing pool association, you can reset the pool resource to null. Ours goes to 11 features of oracle solaris 11 oracle. How to configure and install kernel zone on solaris 11.
When i installed it, i used my own manifest and system configuration profile. Zone network interfaces configured by the zonecfg utility to provide network connectivity are automatically set up and placed in the zone when it is booted. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. For endusers these environments look just like separate abstract machines with solaris 10 installed on them. If in manual configuration mode use new ipadm and dladm commands. Note starting with the solaris 10 1009 release, zones parallel patching enhances the standard oracle solaris 10 patch utilities. Doag 1116 oracle solaris 11 zonen spezialitaten jomasoft. Zone configuration consists of a number of resources and properties. If in automatic configuration mode, use netcfg network virtualization adds many new capabilities and continuing to overload ifconfig is the wrong management approach limited virtualization. The virtualization goal is that utilizing the hardware without scarifying the application.
Whenever we install solaris zones, solaris will assign some set of privileges to take care of activities that impacts overall systems that means that particular zone as well as other zones. And solaris classifies the available privileges as 1. In case you are new to solaris zones refer the post how to create zones in solaris 10 to get started. Oracle solaris 11 includes ips, a new networkcentric package management framework with automatic dependency checking. To simplify the user interface, zonecfg uses the concept of a scope. Red hat 18 red hat enterprise linux solaris 11 16x serversadmin manage 2000 3000 4000 250 4000 machinesadministrator 1step security patching. The following synopsis of the zonecfg command is for interactive usage. 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. Use solaris 11 to have the new ipsboot environment feature, where you always have a lu like environment.
How to get started creating oracle solaris zones in oracle. The solaris boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Oracle solaris 11 general administration oracle database. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Having never been a big fan of sudo, i really wanted an excuse to dabble in rbac and see if i could get it to work for me. Rbac, zone management, and the mortal user im doing a lot of work with automating zone configuration at the moment, and have been using the zlogin command frequently. Using the zonecfg command to modify a zone configuration. The zonecfg and zoneadm commands can be used to migrate an existing nonglobal zone from one system to another. The zone is halted and detached from its current host. Sep 20, 2014 solaris 11 procedure for creating sparse root zone. Now a days virtualization plays very important role in infrastructure market to reduce the data center space,power and utilizing hardware potentially. Using the zonecfg command to revert or remove a zone configuration.
I have a doubts on step 8 specially can someone clear my step 8 doubts or if anything wrong between step 1 to step 9 please correct that also as i have pretty good idea about step 10 mean patching in. By default, a kernel zone is built with solarissmallserver, which is sufficient. Since oracle solaris 11 was released in november 2011, there have been two major updates the 11. Zones provides a means of virtualizing operating system services, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system. So if you have 3 zones and it takes 1 minute to apply a patch on global zone then it will take another 1 minute each to apply on other 3 zones. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Branded zones are solaris 8 or solaris 9 containers created in a solaris 10 global. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained.
Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology. You can migrate an oracle solaris 10 system or zone to a solaris10 zone on an oracle solaris 11 system in the following ways create a zone archive and use the archive to create an s10zone on the oracle solaris 11 system. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. Oracle solaris 11 packaging from the architect, stephen hahn, a summary of how indianas image packaging system ips changes patching. In oracle solaris 11, oracle solaris zones become even more central to both the. As an alternative to normal patching, the zones can be detached while the global zone is patched, and then reattached with the u option to match the patch level of the global zone. Best practices for keeping your oracle solaris workloads. The common syntax of boot command is solaris sparc system is. Oct 20, 20 the zonecfg utility creates and modifies the configuration of a zone.
It is now possible to allocate cmt based resources vcpus, cores and sockets, using the existing zonecfg and poolcfg commands. Solaris 11 zones part 1 may 01 ipadm and ipmp on solaris 11 april 30 resizing swap on solaris 11 april 08 case study. The lower link for the vnic anet resource is selected automatically. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data deduplication, raid and data encryption. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. To verify the oracle solaris release and the machine architecture, type.
Managing network virtualization and network resources in. Starting from solaris 10 update 9, it is allowed to set unique hostid for a nonglobal zone using zonecfg command. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. The amount of physical memory that a zone uses cannot be constrained as it stands now, but sun is working on a feature that will address this issue soon however you can configure capped mem it like this. For information on moving and migrating lx branded zones, see chapter 37, moving and migrating lx branded zones tasks. Functionalities use cases best practices cookbooks solaris 10 container guide functionality status up to solaris 10 1009 and opensolaris 2009.
Oracle solaris 10 branded zones oracle solaris 10 zones provide an oracle solaris 10 environment on oracle solaris 11. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Configuring automatically multiple nics at installation time. Theres no longer the need to set the zonepath in this case, we have named the zone testzone and we can expect systemzonestestzone to be the location under which the zone will be installed. Attach the zone with a validation check and update all of the packages for the zone, so that these packages match what would be seen with a newly installed nonglobal zone on this host.
This feature is useful when performing operations such as patching within an solaris 10 environment running on a solaris 11 system. Hardware can be mixed, vdcf adapts the configuration when migrating reduce complexity. No way to install a flar archive of solaris 10 to solaris. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Zones, also called solaris containers, are a lightweight virtualization feature of solaris, introduced with solaris 10 and widely. Let us get started and see how we can create a zone in solaris 11. Oracle solaris 11 is a complete, integrated, and open platform engineered. The book covers the topics oracle solaris resource management, zones also. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. The book covers the topics resource management, oracle solaris zones, and oracle solaris 10 zones solaris10 branded zones. The zonepath is moved to the target host, where it is attached the following requirements apply to zone migration. Per default, a non global zone in solaris gets the same hostid as global zone.
The post describes an example of adding a raw disk device online to a nonglobal zone. Installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. With the introduction of solaris 10 807, it is possible to run zones with an own ip stack. If the pbe is a customized solaris 10 installation, it may be that the installed packages missed the zone feature, which seems to be mandatory by installcluster or liveupgrade t to figure out if the pbe is a properusable solaris. Prohibited privilegesdefault privileges which are assigned to every zone during the installation example.
Jun 19, 2009 the zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. The zonecfg utility creates and modifies the configuration of a zone. Virtualizing an existing solaris isp environment march 05 setting up a simple iscsi target in solaris 11 january 31. The zonecfg command is used to create this configuration. Any packages installed inside the zone but not installed in the global zone are ignored and left asis. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. Parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime.
How to modify a property type in a zone configuration use this procedure to reset a standalone property that does not have related properties to configure. Yesterday i faced an issue, where in i was unable to login into ngzs after kernel patching. This article focuses strictly on how to perform zone upgrades currently under oracle solaris 11 express, and will be updated when the process changes. This zone is almost similar to sparc vm ldom guests which can run on its own patch level and completely isolated from global zone. So before considering using zone update on attach to speed up patching, you need to be aware of the differences between using update on attach to bring a nonglobal zone up to the same patch level as the global zone versus just using patchadd with all the nonglobal zones attached and available for patching. Oct 22, 2015 installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Jul 21, 2018 solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. Chapter 23 moving and migrating nonglobal zones tasks. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. You can login to the using zlogin from global without providing the. Prior to this version, a reboot of the nonglobal zone was required to make the changes effective. Dec 15, 20 the default nonglobal zone in the oracle solaris 11 release is solaris, described in the solaris 5 man page. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17.
More than just an operating system, oracle solaris 11. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system. Such a zone needs a different configuration, where iptype is set to exclusive and the zone needs a physical interface or a tagged vlan interface assigned. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run an oracle solaris release. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Start the zonecfg command with a z option followed by name of the zone that is to be created zone names are case sensitive. The packaging design im working on has support for management of images, which are a combination of the basic idea of a boot environment with some amount of linkage or sharing, as in zones. How to provide unique hostid for a non global zone the. How to create a zone in solaris 11 how to configure additional ip address on the. Over the course of the beta program, participants can provide feedback on the usability, stability, and overall quality of the product.
Solaris 10 zones its a virtualization technology which allows you to create isolated and secure environments for running applications. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. For systems with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these systems at single user mode will encounter issues. Oracle solaris 11 system administration fast track detailed course outline overview of the solaris 11 operating environment solaris 11 system concepts and features describe the solaris 11 directory hierarchy system startup and shutdown procedures sparcbased systems understand all of the phases of the boot process on a sparc system. The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system. The solaris nonglobal zone is supported on all sun4u, sun4v, and x86 architecture machines. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem.
This tool is included in solaris 10 and is able to analyze systems, download and install patches. A good laptopdesktop with solaris 11 virtual machine vmware workstation or virtualbox. Initially i think the cause is ssh key, then i tried to login into the ngz from the network, it was showing ssh connection refused. In my last installment i promised i would blog on a few solaris 11 features, so in honor of the new year, 2011 ill describe a nifty feature that lets you move solaris 10 environments into solaris 10 brand zones under solaris 11 solaris 11 zones fundamentals. User zonecfg to configure a inherited pacakage zone. Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased. Solaris 11 procedure for creating sparse root zone. Ips has integrated package and patching, and can seamlessly manage system updates to oracle solaris zones environments. Zone network interfaces introduction to oracle solaris zones. Until oracle solaris 11 is released and the zone upgrade process changes, manually update all native nonglobal zones using the zoneadm z zonename attach u command to keep nonglobal zones in sync with the global zone.
These updates added significant new technologies and enhancements to solaris, already regarded as the premier enterprise unix operating system for. A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or interacting with the rest of the system. Oracle solaris 10 811 oracle solaris 11 oracle solaris 11 benefits. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching.
This page describes how to map in solaris 11 installed files to packages and vice. Configuring automatically multiple nics at installation time with solaris 11. If you get any configuration errors at this stage, refer to creating and using oracle solaris zones note. How to get started creating oracle solaris kernel zones in oracle. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. System configuration tool system configuration tool enables you to specify the following configuration parameters for your newlyinstalled oracle solaris 11 system. I just did a regular zonecfg create for the kernel zone.
Dec 16, 2009 solaris 11 zones part 1 may 01 ipadm and ipmp on solaris 11 april 30 resizing swap on solaris 11 april 08 case study. The boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default. This document is based on the first customer release of solaris 10. Its pretty simple once you understand the zonecfg syntax. Major financial ustomers experiences patching oracle solaris vs.
When updating an oracle solaris 11 express global zone, always create a new be so you can backtrack. Start the zonecfg command with a z option followed by name of the zone that is to be created. Hi, the problem seen by others are a known issue from the installcluster script, and is documented as is in the readme file included in the bundle of patches. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. The key bit of the manifest was what packages to install. The internet protocol ip layer accepts and delivers packets for the network. About installing, shutting down, halting, uninstalling, and cloning nonglobal zones overview.
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