Patch management for solaris 10 server pascal kreyeroracle may 12, 2014 11. Under mpxio, you must be running solaris 10 u2 or later i personally would recommend u4 with only security patches. In previous veritas releases, dmp was only available as a feature of veritas volume. Dmp functionality is available with a storage foundation sf enterprise license, a sf ha enterprise license, and a storage foundation standard license. Vxvm uses two types of objects to perform the storage management 1. Storage foundation ha on solaris, patch detail veritas services. Veritas volume manager vxvm volumes and disk groups can coexist with zfs.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. C h a p t e r 3 administering multipathing devices. At some point in time, there was a solaris 10 kernel patch that broke the nbu sg driver. The sun solaris os multipathing support can be determined and configured by using mpathadm commands. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. If the currently installed vrtsvxvm patch level is below 5. Hi all, just to understand the way dmp manages devices. To install vxfs, go to how to install veritas file system software. A beginners guide to veritas dynamic multipathing vxdmp by admin. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. I just installed ibmsdd on solaris diver along with the patches recommended. A beginners guide to veritas dynamic multipathing vxdmp veritas dynamic multipathing dmp provides the multipathing capability to the native devices on the system.
Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. As far as i know, sun dont yet support multipathing over scsi connections the way that the a3500 could with raid manager, for example. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Physical objects are direct mappings to physical disks 2. Postinstallation patches for the sun solaris 10 update 6 os. Under solaris 10 you must use the mpxio builtin or veritas. The following veritas volume manager patches will be installed on all systems.
For the latest information on updates, patches, and software issues regarding this release, see the following technote on the veritas technical support website. Jul 11, 2003 in our three san environments, we installed veritas volume manager version 3. Veritas dynamic multipathing dmp provides multipathing functionality for the operating system native devices configured on the system. Yeah, you can work out whats wrong and run the proper mpathadm commands to fix it. Veritas recommends also installing their maintenance pack update mp1 for 3. For the solaris 9 os, have available your software packages, patches, and. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Jul 04, 2012 solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method.
Hi, basically the original configuration on my solaris 9 server was two luns configured as veritas file systems that were connected to a netapp filer filer1. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. Upgrading veritas dynamic multipathing with the product installer 83 upgrading veritas dynamic multipathing using manual steps 85 upgrading veritas storage foundation to 6. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. I have configured quite a few rhel servers on dmm and generally found it to be ok. Do you have persistent binding in place at hba level. The terms used in this chapter to denote a path, initiator port, target port, and logical unit are consistent with the t10. I suffer from one problem with iscsi software targets and sf5 on solaris 10 sparc. In previous veritas releases, dmp was only available as a feature of veritas volume manager vxvm. Runthefollowingcommandinstaller theinstallerautomaticallyregistersthelicenseatthetime ofinstallationorupgrade. This box is running veritas so lets check out the disks.
View and download hp 3000 37xe system release note online. Do not use solaris 8 patch 11093410 or solaris 9 patch 171. Thus after presenting 10tb filesystem, the server did not automatically configured the multipath device of the vnx lun. However in the format solaris 10 i see dmp devices with strange names. Duringtheinstallation,youwillgetthefollowingprompt. How to collect xscf snapshot on mseries servers m3000 m4000 m5000 m8000 m9000 solaris. Oracle solaris storage multipathing mpxio provides multipath access to storage luns by grouping together the physical paths and presenting a single logical path. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Table11 veritasinfoscaleproductsuite product description components storagefoundationsf standardentrylevel features veritasinfoscalefoundation. Veritas provisioning manager supports ip networking multipathing ipmp.
Ip network multipathing linkbased without probebased failure detection. Solaris io multipathing gives you the ability to set up multiple redundant paths to a storage system and gives you the benefits of load balancing and failover. First thing that i did was check to ensure that there were not any performance issues on any disks that might have been causing this users issues a quick iostat verified that everything was looking fine iostat continue reading verify solaris 10 multipathingconfigure san disk. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose.
Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. Normally, one would enable multipathing early in the stages of building the server, but now that veritas volume manager has already been installed and configured, accessing the storage from two paths, if i enable. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Jun 04, 2011 veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. At the time of writing, mp1 consisted of sun patches 121002 for solaris 8, 11239204 for vxvm, and three for vea, 120302, 159502, and 59602. Dmp creates dmp metadevices also known as dmp nodes to represent all the device paths to the same physical lun. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. Seems like multipathing is not active for those new luns from emc. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. I tried a lot of software targets on linux openfiler and ubuntu and solaris open. Could anyone point out general proscons of using linux dmm vs veritas dmp.
This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio or. As far as i know, sun dont yet support multipathing over scsi connections the way that the a3500 could. Certain software packages, patches, or drivers must be installed on the host, as detailed in the. We want to migrate a solaris 10 x86 from emc clariion to vnx. The dynamic multipathing dmp feature of veritas volume manager vxvm provides greater availability, reliability and performance by using path failover and load balancing. Availablememory,diskspace,andnicinformation operatingsystem versionandpatchlevel networktopology router,gateway,andipaddressinformation problemdescription. There is a general pushback on the linux multipath devicemapper and people prefer veritas dmp. For the latest information on updates, patches, and software issues regarding this release, see the following technote on the veritas technical support.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. The group functions like an ip interface with data addresses to. How to install solaris io multipathing software sun cluster. Find and download patches based on product version and platform. How to collect a forced crash dump of a hanging solaris guest ldom. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. A beginners guide to veritas dynamic multipathing vxdmp. Upgrading veritas dynamic multipathing with the product installer 83 upgrading veritas dynamic multipathing using manual steps 85 upgrading veritas. Enable multipathing in solaris 10 after veritas volume. Hello to all, actually, currently on my solaris box. Veritas dynamic multipathing dmp provides multipathing functionality for.
Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. 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. Table11 veritasinfoscaleproductsuitecontinued product description components clusterservervcs includinghadr storagefoundationsf enterpriseincluding. They are there as a backup just in case the new configuration fails within the next week. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Veritas dmp the storage systems fc failover mode or iscsi configuration and the array types.
Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as. A big deploymment was done, and the backup solution was the netbackup 7. Storage foundation ha on solaris, patch detail sort. In case of solaris 11, files in the directory kerneldrv and etcdriver. Migrating to dmp from solaris multiplexed io mpxio 31 using dynamic multipathing dmp devices with oracle automatic. Dmp creates dmp metadevices dmp nodes to represent all the device e paths to the same physical lun. Problem with iscsi and dmp in storage foundation 5 veritas.
An online copy of these notes is update d whenever additional, significant issues or workarounds are discovered. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Administering multipathing devices through mpathadm commands the sun solaris os multipathing support can be determined and configured by using mpathadm commands. But a reconfigure reboot is a lot easier and faster. How to capture failed login attempts from tty logins telnet, rlogin, and terminal how to boot single user mode from the grub boot loader in solaris 10. How to disable multipathing disable device multipathing. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail veritas services and. Ip network multipathing ipmp is a layer 3 technology that enables you to group multiple ip interfaces into a single logical interface called ipmp group. Ip network multipathing linkbased without probebased failure detection posted on may 9, 2014 by luca merello ip network multipathing ipmp is a layer 3 technology that enables you to group multiple ip interfaces into a single logical interface called ipmp group. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. Multipath for solaris with ds4800 ibm system storage forum. Before using the veritas webbased installer 155 starting the veritas webbased installer 156 obtaining a security exception on mozilla firefox 156 performing a preinstallation check with the veritas webbased. 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. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs.
Starting with solaris 10 update 3, the mpathadm command enables multipathing administration through the ansi standard multipath management api. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. I tried a lot of software targets on linux openfiler and ubuntu and solaris open solaris nevada all with the same effect. You cannot use both in conjunction, so mpxio must be fully disabled if you intend to use veritas mpd. I need to have some iscsi connected drives, not that big nor very fast. Veritas dynamic multipathing dmp provides the multipathing capability to the native devices on the system. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. May 28, 2008 i was attempting to troubleshoot issues as a user was complaining about slow performance on a san disk. C h a p t e r 3 administering multipathing devices through. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies.
How to assign a static ipv6 address on solaris 8,9,10. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has been qualified. Veritas volume manager and veritas file system functionality is not provided with a dmp license. Solaris san configuration and multipathing guide doc. The stmsboot command updates the etcvfstab file and dump configuration to reflect device name changes during the. But i have seen solaris 10 multipathing get a little bolluxed up at times, so if you can do a reconfigure reboot you might get better results. With the release of the solaris 10 update 4 os, the stmsboot1m command is now available for use on sparc, x86, and x64 based systems to enable or disable multipathing for fibre channel fc and sas devices.
However, i have noticed that multipathing in solaris was never enabled, therefore there are two paths to the storage luns. Veritas volume manager is a storage management application by symantec, which allows you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. For the solaris 10 os, you enable the solaris multipathing feature, which is installed by. These two luns are still configured on the server but are not being used. In our three san environments, we installed veritas volume manager version 3. Jul 23, 2016 solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. Hp 3par solaris implementation guide abstract this implementation guide provides information for establishing communications between an hp 3par storeserv storage system and a solaris 8, 9, 10, or 11 host running on the sparc, x64, and x86 platforms.