This section provides information and procedures to install and configure solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software. Also, the solaris version numbering is a little strange. Select the cds and products you would like to install. If your system is running volume management, the cd is mounted automatically. Svm, formerly known as solstice disk suite sds sunwvol is the volume management. When solaris 9 gets released, the solstice disksuite name will change to solaris volume manager svm and it will be bundled in with solaris 9. Notes on disaster recovery of solaris boxes using sun disksuite package general musings and departmentally specific background. The companion cd files install in subdirectories of the optsfw file system rather than in usrlocal. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive. Some sun applications, such as disksuite, cannot be upgraded automatically.
If you used sunplex manager to install solstice disksuite software, do not perform this procedure. In disksuite or solaris volume manager, an extra step must be taken when physically replacing a disk that contained soft partitions. Does anyone know where i can download disksuite for solaris 10. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second edition. The following example, with metadevice d8 that cannot be repaired, illustrates such a recovery. Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager become superuser on the cluster node. Hi all, i need to try installing solaris 8 sparc using qemu on x86 machine. Installation of solaris 11step by step guide unixarena. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010.
Hi, can someone point the web links to download the iso cd image files for solaris 8 installation on intel machines. After successfully installing solaris 8 on the system, you can then install the solstice disksuite. A sysadmins unixersal translator rosetta stone or what do they call that in this world. I provided a stepbystep document on how to download and install the latest sun solaris 8 patch cluster. Sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers. Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments. Ive been looking all over the sun site and others and i cant find were to download it, if i click on something like s the unix and linux forums. Install solstice disksuite with jumpstart oracle community. For solaris 7, 8 and 9 in 64bit kernel mode the installation process will extract the. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
For additional packages on solaris 8,9,10 one can use opencsw repository. Solaris 8 can be installed on sun sparc platforms and intel x86 or compatible platforms. Jul 02, 2015 solaris volume managersolstice disksuite. Svm has been included as a standard part of solaris since solaris 8 was released in. This page contains some notes on how to recover from failed disks, etc. The latest update of the solaris os helps customers alleviate common enterprise problems such as virtualization, resource management, and system performance.
Apr 18, 2003 to apply a patch to the mini root of a net install image the image used to install a system over the network, use the c commandline argument and specify the pathname to the net install image. We recently got a third party in to upgrade our solaris 8 sparc server to solaris 10. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. Hi all, do you know where i can download soltice disksuite 4. Best thing is to download the disksuit doc from docs i keep it as a reference and the explanation isnt bad either.
May 26, 2006 adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. Since there is currently only a single sun server in physics, we are addressing a specific. Following packages are part of it but only the sunwmd is the minimum required package and a patch. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice disksuite command line method without taking solaris down. Iomegas zip and jazz drives are supported by the solaris 8 volume manager. Ads are annoying but they help keep this website running. Solstice disksuite comes bundled with the solaris 8 operating system. This custom drawing feature now works in mozillafirefox, in opera 7. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive on the node. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold. Solaris 8 204 release notes supplement for sun hardwaredownload this book. Sep 12, 2007 solaris 10 update 8 07 has been released and available for download.
There are a couple of slices on each disk that i would like to amalgamate together to create one slice metadisk i would like to use solstice disksuite as i have a bit of experience with the gui etc, but after much searching around on the cds. How to replace a disk which contained soft partitions. Installing solaris 8 in virtualbox retrocomputing with 90s. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. With solaris volume manager you can clear any metadevice and recreate it without losing data. There is no much difference compare to solaris 10 using dvdcd installation method and you need to answer very less questions. Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. Creating your own binaries pick an appropriate name for a tarfile eg. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. In the example below, the server pegasus has two internal disks c0t0d0 and c0t1d0 under disksuite control. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager software. Soft partitioning will, of course, be part of the base functionality of that release. Soft partitioning was not in the original solstice disksuite 4. I would like to install disksuite to mirror the rootboot disk.
Solaris 8 was for a while offered under a freetouse licence for singleprocessor. Sun microsystems sun blade 2500 getting started manual. After successfully installing solaris 8 on the system, you can then install the solstice disksuite 4. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume. Metadevice numbers and state database replicas are taken from those used on. Where to download solaris 8 showing 19 of 9 messages. Cisco media gateway controller software installation and. Installation of solaris 8 0202 any cluster required. Soft partitions are implemented by new kernel driver. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice. You will then be able to choose individual products on each cd. Solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download. Installing solaris 8 on a new system by using web start.
Follow the same steps to install solaris 9 container. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. Disksuite, autoclient, nfs, solstice disksuite, solaris web start and solaris are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of sun microsystems, inc. I need to confirm if qemu would work for sparc solaris iso or not. I already created my state databases, one on each of 2 paritions o disksuite 1. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. To install the flash archive on other systems of the same architecture i. You can skip certain procedures under the following conditions. Svm solaris 9 or later, part of end user install clusterkages to install sds 4.
Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments where price. The solstice disksuite product is located on the second cd of the solaris. Dec 23, 2011 install solaris 10 508 or higher note. Howto use metadevices with solstice disksuite software. Hi there, i need to install solaris 8, but it seems to be discontinued to download from sun. Flash archives are mirrored images of a system that can be installed on another system of the same architecture. I can also possibly try this with bootable solaris 10 sparc if thats available at some download link.
View notes 310 012sun 310012 sun 310012 sun certified system administrator for solaris 8 part 2 practice test version 1. How to install solstice disksuite software sun cluster. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. See your solstice disksuite installation documentation for information about optional software packages. Installing solaris 8 installing and maintaining solaris. I installed it without a problem, but do i really have to blow away the drives on the d just to create a metastate dat the unix and linux forums. Solaris volume manager is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling raid0. Vividata allowed me to download and install their package twice, which was. If you install solaris 10 807,you need patch 12711101 or higher. How to replace a disk which contained soft partitions by ramdev published february 4, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 when trying to access a soft partition after a disk replacement, the metareplace command or any direct io to a soft partition will fail with the following types of errors.
Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. If you used sunplex manager to install solstice disksuite software solaris 8, the. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. For the last two solaris releases they dropped the 2. Installing solaris 8 installing and maintaining solaris 8. Refer to appendix a for information about volume management and mounting cds. Solstice disk suite from cd 2 of 2 sun vts from comp cd sun rcs software from comp cd sun explorer from sun solve recommended patches from sun solve setting up user accounts configuration of sds to mirror boot disks and makes required filesystems. Hey does anyone know of a direct link to download solaris 8 for an intel system. One thing to watch, i found many existing systems had been setup with 4 database replicasof the mirrors, 2 on the system disk and 2 on the mirror disk.
It is advisable to install the latest sun solaris patch cluster to ensure a stable operating environment. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers root sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands. The following procedure is for solaris 8 containers only. If youre installing solaris 8 on a single new system, the preferred installation method is to install from a local cdrom drive by using web start. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold1m is running and. Solaris 8 software is constructed and how it fits with other network infrastructure. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom in the cdrom drive on the node. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until. The obvious thing to do is boot from the solaris install cd. This puts you into some sort of web install which i have never gotten to work correctly.
Sunwmd required base product sunwmdg optional gui package sunwmdn optional snmp log daemon package. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. Installing solaris 8 in virtualbox retrocomputing with. If you used sunplex installer to install solstice disksuite software solaris 8, the. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris. Installing the solstice disksuite cscoh023 rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice disksuite command line method without taking solaris. Solaris reference documents collection softpanorama. Because virtualbox does not emulate any of the specific display adaptors. In previous versions, you had to purchase the server mediaas opposed to workstation media that shipped with either internet extensions cdsolaris 2. I have setup a solaris 8 0202 jumpstart server successfully.
All solaris versions solaris 8 solaris 9 system administrator collection hard drive mirroring solaris 8 refer to the solstice disksuite users guide for your. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8. The flash archive can include thirdparty packages as well as optional solaris components like solstice disksuite. Use click, shiftclick, controlclick, and the set and clear buttons to select the desired subset of oss.
If root was originally mounted on a metadevice or mirror, set the root file system to be mounted back on the original metadevice or mirror. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software. The operating system is mirrored between the two devices, with slices five and six on each disk employed for state database replicas. Jun 11, 20 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.
If a patch was obtained via download, chances are good that it is zipped compressed to make it easier and quicker to download. Install the packages in the order that is shown in the following example. With disksuite, how to mirror root file system sun. You can skip certain procedures in the following conditions. One of the prerequisites states that you must have volume management installed. Solaris is the name of operating system product with all of the gui stuff bundled in. Im installing and configuring disksuite on a solaris 8 ultra 5, my first experience with it. As of november 6th, 2003, the download file is called. When you install solaris x86 it will set the gui to start automatically when the system is booted. Install the packages from the second solaris cd you need sunwmdr, sunwmdu and sunwmdx, the other packages are optional. It is hard to keep the site running and producing new content continue reading howto use metadevices with solstice disksuite software. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so. 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. Solaris 8 202 operating system, intel binary internet archive.
If you select kiosk download, the scanning download. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory. A few month later i now have a disk mirror problem that i would normally fix by going into the gui screen metatool it appears that the third party didnt install disksuite after the upgrade. Boot from the software cd 1 if you wonder why i coded highlighted this in red is that after a disk failure, i spent three days trying to install starting with the install disk before i mistakenly. The following procedure describes how to download the sun install check tool. Solaris volume manager solstice disksuite update device relocation information. Configuring and installing solaris 8 and solaris 9. It is hard to keep the site running and producing new content continue reading howto use. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed.
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