Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. It did require updating kernel patches on solaris 10 u7 to support the hot plug feature. This document outlines how you can convert the cfgadm failing state for a given access path to the intended unusable path state when a lun has been intentionally removed at the storage array layer scenario. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. This document outlines the required multistep path removal guidelines when removing access for a paths to a lun from a solaris sparc environment key points.
This is required for detecting new luns and to assist with basic storage connectivity troubleshooting. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command. Verified the link, zone config and the storage config. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following.
Home operating system solaris 10 11 volume manager how to create a metaset solaris 10. Some of us are easy with luxadm and some are with cfgadm. Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6526639 date of resolved release 29nov2007 impact. How to scan for new fc devices and gather lun information. Check the solaris 10 patch level recommended for dynamic reconfiguration operations and contact sun support for further assistance. Postinstallation patches for the sun solaris 10 update 6 os. Normally, when a lun is removed solaris will change it to a failedfailing state in cfgadm command output then within 30 second it. Patches fails with unhandled subprocess exit status 5 exit n branch patch fails with below errors. This section describes the solaris tm system administration and maintenance utilities and is for system and network administrators.
Add and configure luns in solaris posted by elumalai m ensure the following os packages patches are installed this one should be on the first solaris install dvd. Performs hardware specific operations that allow an occupants hardware resources to be usable by solaris. A security vulnerability with fibre channel protocol driver fcp7d and devices file system devfs7fs in solaris 10 may allow a local unprivileged user to cause commands such as cfgadm 1m or format1m to hang when run, or cause the system as a whole to hang. The cfgadm command can be used to view the system attachment points which are broadly defined as the location of certain hardware resources visible to solaris. However cfgadm and luxadm do the same job but in different way. Special case 5 for the kernel patch 15040014 or higher on solaris 10 or the kernel patch 1. Boot server from a oracle source media, such as, cdromdvd then check if still have issue or not.
This comes is very useful for displaying the status of the devices. Dynamic reconfiguration on sun enterprise midrange systems. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. If you cannot see your san from solaris 10, check your connections and the san. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. Or you can search for individual packages in the search for. Solaris specialists blog everything about solaris page 8. How to use cfgadm configure in solaris computer how to. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. Checking patches that you specified for installation.
Ok, so you have a solaris 10 host with san connected storage how do you make sense of the luns you can see. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. Alternatively, one may want to set a disk to unconfigured mode to eliminate variables when debugging. Solaris 10 hba port offline solutions experts exchange. Solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. Sparc patch list oracle solaris 10 910 patch list oracle docs.
Solaris 10, adding new lun from san storage the unix and. Occupants that are configured are part of the system configuration and are available for manipulation by solaris device manipulation maintenance. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. While devfsadmd 1m updates the device information, the necessary information for cfgadm is locked by devfsadm. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
Configured zoning and presented the luns to the server from eva6100. Sparc enterprise servers hardware platform guide fujitsu. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. Hello to all, actually, currently on my solaris box, ive a lun 5tb space from a emc storage which is working fine, and a partition with zfs filesystem is created for that lun. What tools can be used to interrogate the storage and build a mental image of what you have been presented with. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. If solaris os was newly installed the issue maybe os is missing some packages patches. The old solaris luxadm command still manage fc arrays, but mpathadm command has been developed to work on all the arrays using fc, sas, and iscsi connections. Cleaning up the operating system device tree after. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. How to convert the cfgadm failing state to the intended. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi.
We are installing solaris 10 update 11 x8664 and have a small problem. So the solaris 10 u7 server does now detect the tape drive and the autoloader. Find answers to solaris 10 hba port offline from the expert community at experts exchange experts exchange. With the release of solaris 10 operating system os, the configuration of storage area network san. The x4170 has a pcix lsi logic dual external u320 parallel scsi card. This guide shows how to rescan and examine fc luns on solaris 1011. On it i have two vm guests my production file server running solaris 10 u7 and a test file server running solaris 10 u9. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates. Also, solaris live upgrade works the same as in previous releases when you use zfs. A security vulnerability resulting from solaris 10 fcp7d.
Using cfgadm to display luns on solaris hosts prefetch. Hi i have a solaris 8 server that have lun being removed from the server but it is still show up as error device in format command and in vxvm, i have. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks. Hi all, we added hba card to one of the solaris 9 server sun fire v240. Dynamic reconfiguration and hotplugging oracle solaris. I need help to remove the lun on solaris 10 with the storage foundation the following details of the system os solaris 5. If you are trying to configure and unconfigure luns on a solaris host, you may be suprised to find that the default cfgadm al output doesnt display the luns on your system. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a.
Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array. The solaris cfgadm command can be used to configure system devices. Replacing an online host bus adapter hba on an m5000 server. The correct method is to use the cfgadm command to unconfigure the device before. Solaris 9 requires some tinkering to play with sans. Without informing the sysadmin, the storage admin has already removed the lun from the assigned server. To get a complete list of devices and their status use the cfgadm command as follows. Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly.
Running cfgadm with the al option will list these attachment points. Steps for deleting devices in unusable or failing state. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. To replace an online host bus adapter hba on an m5000 server. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. For most newer machinesmodels on solaris 10, cfgadm gets used rather than luxadm for disk replacement ie. This will include san hbas and luns, usb devices, internal disks such as sata etc. In solaris, if i unplug a couple disks while the machine is running, some functions that check every disk will take awhile because it has to wait for the timeout. Solaris san configuration and multipathing guide doc. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. This configuration allows the solaris st generic tape driver to coexist with the mt driver.
For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. On solaris 10, with the san software builtin, however, im getting different behavior. I must do a reconfiguration reboot to get the storage array to see my new server, and after it is zoned and luns are mapped, i am able to do a cfgadm as above and it sees the luns. Below is a simple live upgrade be creation and patching example. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. These steps are not required for solaris 10 which includes everything you need to connect to a san, even to boot from it. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Find answers to solaris 10 change device for a hba port from the expert community at experts exchange. The solaris cfgadm1m command does not unconfigure a dvd drive from a.
How to remove a failed disk using luxadm and cfgadm. Enableconfigure fcalsan devices with cfgadm in solaris. This section contains the latest information about dynamic reconfiguration dr functionality for the following midrange servers that are running the solaris 10 software. Contact sun support if any of the steps in this section fail to produce the wanted results. Vxvm must be informed that the intended paths are being removed to ensure the cfgadm leadville stack correctly reflects the access path state. A solaris host with seemingly functional fc hba ports is unable to display those ports with the cfgadm or fcinfo commands. This procedure uses solaris 10 with leadville stack as an example.
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