The xorg server is designed to configure automatically and can run in most situations without the need to edit configuration files. By default, the mirror service transfers packages from the solaris publisher. For root mirroring in solaris,see full information. 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. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. On the solaris 11 environment we built two branded solaris 10 zones using an oracle template provided on the oracle website solaris10u11sparc. Mirroring ips repositories oracle solaris blog oracle blogs.
Clients that install and update packages from a mirror repository must still download metadata from an. How to configure xorg included in the oracle solaris os. Software can be installed from oracles ips package repositories. 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. Other than general bug fixes and performance improvements, i thought a few changes would be worth mentioning in a bit more detail, so. In my previous entry i wrote about creating a portable version of the repository using a usb stick. Disk mirroring using solaris disk manager raid 1 volumes. Disk mirroring using solaris volume manager posted by s.
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. How to set up a repository mirroring service with the oracle. Administrators can use the pkgrecv command to retrieve packages from one repository to another. I dont think the zfs ondisk structure interferes with clonzillas ability to do the cloning. Solaris 10 update 3 hw 1106 or solaris express build 57 or higher installed. Device start block dbase state reloc hot spare c1t0d0s0 0 no okay yes d12. Disksuitevolumemanager or zpool mirroring on solaris. Solaris 11 administration vs solaris 10 administration ars. By default, when you install solaris 11 onto a sparc system using the solaris text installer, the solarislargeserver pkg group is installed. 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.
Svm root encapsulation and mirroring sparc the geek diary. 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. Now that we have the base release of solaris 11 in our repo, apply it the latest 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. Jul 25, 20 if you already installed solaris 11 for example in a virtual box vm, you may want to install x11 libs.
Ips is similar to the linux world with repositories yum, apt, etc. Package names that are nonbold andor with no version number, are not currently available for this version of solaris. Zfs oracle solaris 11 advanced administration cookbook. Configuring xserver display for oracle solaris 11 asgaur. 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. 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. 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. Our complete database resides on the ibm data array, in ufs luns. This provides administrators with an easy, automated way of mirroring repository contents.
There is no much difference compare to solaris 10 using dvdcd installation method and you need to answer very less questions. Be advised that the packages on unix packages are only available through a paid subscription service, as this new site is not. How to automatically copy a repository from the internet copying. The state database contains the configuration and status information of all volumes, hot spares and disk sets. Alexandre borges is an oracle ace in solaris and has been teaching courses on oracle solaris since 2001.
He worked as an employee and a contracted instructor at sun microsystems, inc. How can i know the firmware version of nic adapters in solaris 11. Need a procedure document to do root disk mirroring in solaris volume manager for solaris 10. The entire drive has been allocated in this configuration and the metadb command seems to fail everytime i try to setup the database replica. 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. Get started download packages packages see full software list. Solaris 10 update 3 hw 11 06 or solaris express build 57 or higher installed. 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. After the install, just reboot the system to login into the desktop gui. I am planning to construct one raid1 mirror with zfs just like previous solaris 10 x86 installation. Please visit our new website unix packages provides full package support for all levels of solaris from 2.
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. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. In my server, i have three different nic adapters placed. 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. 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. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole of the solaris desktop group.
You can download the package and prerequisite packages with. Here will be used already installed os and all the work will be done without need of reinstallprerequisites1. I do a nat using ipfilter and all was working good, until i by nilton on this entry. 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. Solaris volume manager administration guide pdf comprehensive data management using solaris volume manager software. Support for packages has been discontinued on sunfreeware. After that the data sync with the another disk which is in mirroring. Local ips repositories copying and creating oracle solaris 11. 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. 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. Downloads tab server and storage system solaris solaris 10 2.
Jan 14, 2016 solaris 10 mirroring zfs root pool duration. If you already installed solaris 11 for example in a virtual box vm, you may want to install x11 libs. The firmware will contain the alom cmt, post, obp, and hypervisor updates. Solaris 11 administration vs solaris 10 administration. Oracle solaris 11 includes a vast library of free and open source software foss including utilities, services, productivity and developer tools. 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. From the directory that contains the extracted files, run the pkgmogrify command using the syntax shown here.
Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by lsof. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole of the solarisdesktop group. Extract the zipfiles into some suitable location like vartmpsru. 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. List disk using usrsbinformat fdisk the raw disk using fdisk command. Aziz on january 11, 2009 from wikipedia, solaris volume manager svm.
Installation of solaris 11step by step guide unixarena. Oracle solaris 11 makes zfs its default filesystem. Zfs in this chapter, we will cover the following recipes. Beginners guide to solaris 11 image packaging system ips the. A mirror repository contains only package content files. The contents can be printed or downloaded for personal use only. Repository mirroring whats new in oracle solaris 11. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository the geek. Part 8 mirroring the zfs root pool oracle community.
Attach a second disk to configure a mirrored root pool. You must load the corresponding firmware for your platform. After using lots of installation media of solaris 11, i didnt find the options to create raid1 mirror on zfs root partition pool. For example, on a default oracle solaris 11 installation, only datasets under. As i state in my initial posted question, no mirroring, no encryption, no dedup, etc vanilla install of the os. Disk mirroring using solaris volume manager azizs blog. Now in case of losing any state database replica svm determines the valid state database replica by using majority consensus algorithm.
Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. How to set up a repository mirroring service with the oracle solaris. 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. Here we will see the learning path for oracle solaris 11. This procedure describes a method of mirroring the root pool using zfs functions. 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. By default, when you install solaris 11 onto a sparc system using the solaris text installer, the solaris largeserver pkg group is installed. I am installing the new solaris 11 on my dell tower desktop workstation with two 3tb sata hard drives. On solaris 11, reflection for secure it installation uses the image packaging system ips. Quick links to ips repositories sfe software packages for solaris.
Oracle solaris 10 installation on vmware workstation youtube. Solaris laptop list x86 this page is a place to keep track of solaris compatible laptops. Jan 11, 2009 disk mirroring using solaris volume manager posted by s. Creating full system backups of your oracle solaris systems have never been more crucial. This is quite a large pkg group that provides most of the software youd need on a server. Supported raid controllers this download supports intel raid controllers using sas software stack rms3cc080. How to set up a repository mirroring service with the. Installation of rsync on solaris 10, 910, paul eggleton. Package sources, cswmgarpkgscreentrunkmakefile sourceforge, opengrok. Configuring boot disks with solaris volume manager software october 2002 by erik vanden meersch and kristien hens. Similar to a download mirror to a file on the internet.
To do this, you have to install this bunch of packages. In this article, we will look at the new repository mirroring service that has been included in oracle solaris 11. If you need to repartition the disk and create a slice 0, see modifying slices or partitions in managing devices in oracle solaris 11. Please do not mirror these development repositories. Install and uninstall on oracle solaris 11 reflection. Philip brown collected this information from newsgroup postings, and form submissions through the website. How to configure a mirrored root pool sparc or x86vtoc. To provide redundancy we create multiple copies of the state database called as state database replicas.
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