Fixing a broken solaris zone i applied the latest set of patches to my x86 solaris 10 server this morning, and after the server was rebooted i noticed that my zones didnt start. If nonglobal zones have their own separate root file systems, make sure all of them are mounted. I have to update only one nonglobal zone from solaris 10 update 7 to solaris 10 update 9. Removing patches in global and nonglobal zones use the solaris patch rollback wizard to remove a patch package and restore previously saved files in.
When a new boot environment is created by cloning an existing one, the base. Immutable global zone in order to prevent tampering of the file system, we have extended immutable zones in solaris 11. For those of you not in the know, solaris zones or containers. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. If that gives no useful output, then run that from the global zone too. You can apply patches to the global zone, and if the nonglobal zones share usr, sbin, platform and lib with the global, they are automatically patched in unison. Login to solaris 10 physical machine and halt if you have any local zones on it. I have a server with solaris 10 update 7, and a lot of nonglobal zone on solaris 10 update 7 logical. You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
When used in a non global zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be used to add patches to that zone. Heres a quick walkthrough of creating a simple zone. The global zone a non global zone can only be configured from the global zone by a privileged user root in this case. Therefore, before we embark on the journey to create a new nonglobal zone, we should verify that we are in fact in the global zone. How to create a non global zone on a globalcluster node. 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. The nonglobal zones are made from the global zones. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on the non global zones. Any packages installed inside the zone but not installed in the global zone are ignored and left asis.
If the new host has later versions of the zone dependent packages and their associated patches, using zoneadm attach with the u option updates those packages within the zone to match the new host. Upgrading with nonglobal zones oracle solaris 10 1. After creating a ngz non global zone, the ngz can access the gz global zone and the gz can access the ngz using ssh, zlogin however, the ngz cannot access any other netwqork devices, it cant even see the default router. Heres a quick walk through of creating a simple zone.
How to migrate a nonglobal zone system administration. Only the global zone has full power to access the non global zones. As in the case with the global zone, a new zone be is created for each nonglobal zone during. Now that we know how to create nonglobal zones in solaris, its probably time to learn some basics of zones configuration. The same solaris 10 patch can be applied to the solaris 10 305 release, the solaris 10 106 release, solaris 10 606 release, and so on. This site includes legacy solaris 10 and earlier noncore os patch content. Apatch can be added to a non global zone in the following cases. Removing patches in global and non global zones use the solaris patch rollback wizard to remove a patch package and restore previously saved files in a global or non global zone, or both. 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. Using zonecfg and zoneadm you can configure and install zones.
After creating a ngz non global zone, the ngz can access the gz global zone and. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and non global zones fail the goal was to consolidate 40 or so physical servers onto a m4000. As you know there is no direct method to upgrade the solaris 10 to solaris 11, most of the clients would like to run their existing solaris 10 zones as branded zone under solaris 11 without upgrading the guest operating system for time being. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone.
In nonglobal zone of solaris 10, lsf has the following known limitations. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system. How to migrate solaris 10 global zone into solaris 11. With ips, updating oracle solaris zones is a trivial operation, and in most cases, it happens automatically during a package update of the global zone. Global zone every installed os acts like a global zone, which is present by default. So you may need to stick with older version of operating system in a order. When doing a standard upgrade, all native solaris nonglobal zones are upgraded, that is, they receive any new packages and features that are being delivered as part of the upgrade, obsolete packages are removed, and the nonglobal zones and the global zone will be at the same software level with respect to patches and package versions that are. Super user access access to the global zone server loopback files system not disabled e. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. Solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. May 01, 2009 now that we know how to create nonglobal zones in solaris, its probably time to learn some basics of zones configuration. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. Now i gonna show, how to create zones in solaris 10.
I have to update only one non global zone from solaris 10 update 7 to solaris 10 update 9. This procedure describes how to setup a full root zone in solaris 10 which does not use inherited packages. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Load all other patches as the global zone in single user mode, and all nonglobal zones halted in installed state by default, all zone root file systems still need to be mounted unable to halt a solaris 10 non global local zone due to unmounted filesystems id 1008195. This video is showing, install and configure nonglobal zone in solaris 10. Must be whole root zone a zone not sharing system files with the global zone the nonglobal zone autoboot the setting to automatically start up the nonglobal zone during startup of the global zone. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for. A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or interacting with the res. 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 non global zone on this host. Solaris 11 global zone must have minimum 7gb of free space for solaris 10 zone installation.
With a brand new zone, you will go through the typical sysidcfg interactions language, locale, terminal, hostname,kerberos, name service,timezone, and password settings that you would normally do with a new solaris install. Os partitioning and virtualization on oracle solaris. If you are planning to move the solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you. In non global zone of solaris 10, lsf has the following known limitations. Ihave been configured a printer using lpadmin command, and working now on solaris 10 global root directory. Therefore, before we embark on the journey to create a new non global zone, we should verify that we are in fact in the global zone. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. Sep 22, 2008 zone is a virtual machine in solaris which isolates the processes. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10. If you attach a native nonglobal zone, it will look at the software level of the host global zone. Does the zoneadm attach u option will update the patches in nonglobal zone in solaris 11. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if non global zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues.
The oracle solaris 10 zones support x86 and sparc solaris 10 910 or later. Become superuser, or assume the primary administrator role. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. If it does, it will update the software in the native nonglobal zone during attach. Root user in non global zones of solaris container does not have all the privileges that the root user in a global zone has.
Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. Let us get started and see how we can create a zone in solaris 11. All nonglobal zones can only be intalled, configured and administered from global zone. Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology. Up until solaris 1008, getting things straightened out was an exercise left up to the sysadmin, and it often times was no small task. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see using the solaris management tools with rbac task map in system administration guide. Apatch can be added to a nonglobal zone in the following cases. The set of patches is applicable to all of these solaris 10 releases. Patch zone non global on solaris 10 oracle community. Hi, if i change date and time in global zone, then it will affect in non global zones.
The patch does not affect any area of the zone that is shared from the global zone. All the software and other resources are inherited from the global zone. I have solaris 10 sparc server with two non global zone one is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Oracle solaris 10 containers administration destech. How to install solaris 10 branded zone on solaris 11.
Migrating a nonglobal zone to a different machine manas. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs and nonglobalzones fail. If you opt to create a zone with its own copy of these file systems, then it will have to be patched separately. How to configure a solaris 10 zones and configure resources like memory, cpu, file system, disk etc. Solaris zones migration with zfs oracle the art of. If it does, it will update the software in the native non global zone during attach. By default any nonglobal zone shares the global zone kernel and has same. My question is, 1should i halt all nonglobal zone before beginning the installation or i should leave them running and perform the install. Patching solaris 10 nonglobal zones oracle community. The following command is used to display the name of the zone. Can i have different sru levels in non global zones. If you dont known how to login through the network, i. How to patch non global zones in parallel set the number of non global zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etc patch nf.
Migrating nonglobal zone in solaris on identical system. These kind of situation rasie due to application incompatibility with high version of operating systems. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. In this article, we will see how we can move both types of zones under solaris 11 global zone. Fixing a broken solaris zone prefetch technologies. How can i patch a global zone without patching non global zones. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and non global whole root zones patching. Containers are used to create isolated environments for running. Also see adding and removing packages and patches on a solaris system with zones installed task map in system administration guide.
If the software level of the native non global zone is higher than the host global zone, it will fail. Zone administration install and configure non global zone. In upcoming days,definitely you need to migrate the solaris 10 physical servers as a local zone in solaris 11 global zone if you want to continue to use solaris 10 operating system. For your information solaris 9 and solaris 8 branded zones are not. Keep the global and nonglobal zones secured by patching them with the fixlets in the patches for solaris site. 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 solaris 10. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones.
Yes, can be applied to multiple zones in parallel no patching pkg updates instead. As there is no super global zone, a different mechanism has been designed to enter the trusted path. If the source system is running an older version of the solaris system, it might not generate a correct list of packages when the zone is detached. At the company i work for, we have recently migrated several solaris 10 global zones to solaris 10 nonglobal zones hosted on a solaris 11 global zone. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. As there is no superglobal zone, a different mechanism has been designed to enter the trusted path. For starters, lets have a look at the full configuration of our zone.
When used in a nonglobal zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be used to add patches to that zone. To create non global zones, the following conditions must be satisfied. A regular solaris instance will provide you the global zone. Oracle solaris zones is an os virtualization feature in oracle solaris with a long. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on the nonglobal zones. Set the number of non global zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etc patch nf. In solaris 10, a nonglobal zones root file system could be either whole root or sparse. Mar 31, 2014 solaris 10 physical server must be running with solaris 10 1011 update.
This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Most work is done with zonecfg which has been mentioned in my solaris zones. Set the number of non global zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etcpatchnf. Nfs server in nonglobal zones, nonglobal zones now support nfs servers. But oracle soalris 11 allows you to create solaris 10 as a branded zone on both sparc and x86 environments. May 01, 2014 immutable global zone in order to prevent tampering of the file system, we have extended immutable zones in solaris 11. What is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. How to configure a global zone along with two nonglobal. I have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. If that doesnt give any results, do the same from the global zone. How to patch nonglobal zones in parallel in system. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded zone. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment.
To install and configure a data service in a non global zone, see the sun cluster manual for the individual data service. Id like to know what, if any, the procedure is to apply recommended or cpu patches from the solaris 11 global zone to all of the solaris 10 nonglobal zones. Solaris containersresource management and solaris zones. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. The whole root zone provided the greatest configuration flexibility because all the required solaris packages are copied to the zones private file system and the root file system is readwritable. How to add swap space to solaris zone without reboot. Make sure the release of solaris 10 global zone is equal to or higher than solaris. Hi, hoping someone can help, its been a while since i used solaris.
When doing a standard upgrade, all native solaris non global zones are upgraded, that is, they receive any new packages and features that are being delivered as part of the upgrade, obsolete packages are removed, and the non global zones and the global zone will be at the same software level with respect to patches and package versions that are. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded. Nonglobal zone they share the functioning of the kernel booted under the global zone. In a global zone of solaris 10, lsf works well without any known issues. To create a nonglobal zone, just plan some hard drive space for it, and work away. If the software level of the native nonglobal zone is higher than the host global zone, it will fail. As in the case with the global zone, a new zone be is created for each non global zone during the update for updates that require a system reboot. May 05, 2011 with a brand new zone, you will go through the typical sysidcfg interactions language, locale, terminal, hostname,kerberos, name service,timezone, and password settings that you would normally do with a new solaris install. A good laptopdesktop with solaris 11 virtual machine vmware workstation or virtualbox. First introduced in oracle solaris 10, zones are builtin, lightweight. If that doesnt give any useful output either, then from the nonglobal zone. The global zone on the target system must be running the same solaris release as the original host. Install the solaris 10 brand on solaris11 global zone. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1.
Attach the zone with a validation check and update the zone to match a host running later versions of the dependent packages or having a different machine class upon attach. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Since a nonglobal zones inherit files and packages from the global zone, things can get messy. Root user in nonglobal zones of solaris container does not have all the privileges that the root user in a global zone has.
For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. But, i can not define printer using lpadmin command on solaris 9 zone. Zones are isolated from each other and from the global zone. To ensure that the correct package list is generated on the destination, you can remove the sunwdetached. If you opt to create a zone with its own copy of these file systems, it will have to be patched separately. Set the number of nonglobal zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etcpatchnf.
To create nonglobal zones, the following conditions must be satisfied. This is by design and for obvious security reasons. Migrating a zone to a different machine on solaris 10. This guide uses the term non global zone to refer to a local zone. When i ran the zoneadm utility with the list option, all of the zones were in the installed state they should be in the running state since the autoboot. During this process what files will get affect in non global zones and which mechanism its using to change. What are the types of zones whole root zone, sparse root zone, global zone, non global zone, big zone, small zone. My question is, 1should i halt all non global zone before beginning the installation or i should leave them running and perform the install. Apr 09, 2014 we can call this method as virtual to virtual v2v.
I have a server with solaris 10 update 7, and a lot of non global zone on solaris 10 update 7 logical. In case you are new to solaris zones refer the post how to create zones in solaris 10 to get started. I promised to follow up on the last article about solaris logical volume manager with one about setting up solaris zones, so here it is. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if non global zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. The global zone a nonglobal zone can only be configured from the global zone by a privileged user root in this case. Must be whole root zone a zone not sharing system files with the global zone the non global zone autoboot the setting to automatically start up the non global zone during startup of the global zone. The releases following the marketing release, such as solaris 10 106, contain new features and patches that are preapplied. Zone is a virtual machine in solaris which isolates the processes. Keep the global and non global zones secured by patching them with the fixlets in the patches for solaris site.
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