Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Path administration utility for a solaris multipathing device category. Following troubleshooting section provides solutions to potential problems that may occur while running solaris fc and storage multipathing software on solaris 10 1. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. I was attempting to troubleshoot issues as a user was complaining about slow performance on a san disk. Solaris 10 kernel patches 14144409 and 14144509 may cause interface failure in ip multipathing ipmp sun 271519 original release date. Beforeyoustart,makesurethatyouareusingthelatestversion ofthisguide. The most obvious savings is realized in the cost of virtualization. The j4200 release notes, on page 4, indicates specific versions of cam and patches that you must use if you configure multipathing and use the common array manager cam software. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Can you give some more detail on what you have done so far, what kind of multipathing, what hardware and os release and patches, what you have done to your config files, etc.
If you want to enable multipathing only on specific fc or sas hba ports, refer to enabling or disabling multipathing on a perport basis the multipathing software automatically recognizes oracle s supported devices. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. Perform the following steps to enable multipathing on all multipath capable devices on sparc or x86 based systems. If you are using up to date opensolaris dev builds instead of solaris 10, youll get most of the solaris patches, including source. The information for asm with oracle 10g rac is not explained in either the solaris 10 or hitachi san documentation. As far as i know, sun dont yet support multipathing over scsi connections the way that the a3500 could. 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. Ive recently setup a bunch of machines for ip multipathing i. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array. Ipmp load spreadingoutgoing network traffic is able to utilize several network interfaces network trunking multiple physical network interfaces are treated as one.
Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. 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. Under solaris 10 you must use the mpxio builtin or veritas. Enabling and disabling multipathing oracle solaris. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. 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. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. The group functions like an ip interface with data addresses to.
The patch to install depends on which driver is installed. Solaris zone clusters securely consolidate multiple virtualized oracle solaris 10 and oracle solaris 11 environments. Sun has released a security patch addressing the following issues. How to enable solaris multipathing mpxio or stms for emc. Using oracle zfs storage appliance fibre channel and iscsi with symantec storage foundation dmp. Solaris 10 system administration essentials is the first book to concisely yet comprehensively cover all of the breakthrough features of the solaris 10 operating system. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Non security related patches are included with every next update. Set the configuration parameters in the kerneldrvnf file. 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.
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. 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. Jul 23, 2016 solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. For the solaris 10 os, you enable the solaris multipathing feature, which is. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. The stmsboot command updates the etcvfstab file and dump configuration to reflect device name changes during the next reboot. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio or. Using oracle zfs storage appliance fibre channel and iscsi.
How to collect xscf snapshot on mseries servers m3000 m4000 m5000 m8000 m9000 solaris. Multipathingdisabled devices are enumerated under the physical controller. Under mpxio, you must be running solaris 10 u2 or later i personally would recommend u4 with only security patches. Under mpxio, you must be running solaris 10 u2 or later i personally.
Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. I upgraded some solaris 10 u8 boxes this weekend, and in the last few days weve noticed that io to the san drives, not the local ones, takes on order of 210x as long as it should. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a. For data disks presented to solaris 11 guests, mpgroups must not be used. To prepare for either enabling or disabling mpxio on a specific drive port, specify ls l devcfg on the command line. My forte is in debian and rhel, and im at a loss as to why patches would cause everything to remain working, but at a hindered rate, or rather why io going to. S10u8 are downloadable for free without requiring a service contract. I thought i would share a simpler step by step approach.
Solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Solaris 10 is the easier, because the mpxio capability is builtin. Solaris 10 system administration essentials is part of a new series on solaris system administration. Multipathing prevents single points of failure in any highly available. Summary configuring j4200 with sas multipathing and zfs. A beginners guide to veritas dynamic multipathing vxdmp. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. A beginners guide to veritas dynamic multipathing vxdmp by admin. During the reboot following stmsboot enable e, disable d, or update u operations if the system. Perform the following steps to enable multipathing on all multipathcapable devices on sparc or x86 based systems. For oracle solaris versions 10 and 11, if mpxio is not disabled, use the stmsboot d command to. Geographic clustering can restart an entire application stack in a dynamic recovery cluster. It is a practical guide to deploying and managing the solaris 10 operating system in a business or academic environment. 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.
Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. In current oracle solaris releases, the command is used to enable or disable multipathing on serialattached scsi devices as well as fc devices. How to collect a forced crash dump of a hanging solaris guest ldom. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. 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. 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. If the installer cannot update to solaris 10 patch id 12001214, edit your. 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. Oracle solaris storage multipathing mpxio provides multipath access to storage luns by grouping together the physical paths and presenting a single logical path. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. May 10, 20 solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris.
Ip network multipathing linkbased without probebased failure detection. Solaris ip multipathing made easy auburn university. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10 1. How to assign a static ipv6 address on solaris 8,9,10 persistently. May 28, 2008 i was attempting to troubleshoot issues as a user was complaining about slow performance on a san disk. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria that is, patches which address security or other critical issues. Solaris 10 and 11 supported configuration differences. In solaris 10, we have the setting devrdskcwtxdysz to denote the controller, target, disklun number and slicepartition. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. For solaris 8 and 9, download the sun san foundation software sfs 4. Use the stmsboot command to enable multipathing in the solaris 10, update 6, operating system. Thus after presenting 10tb filesystem, the server did not automatically configured the multipath device of the vnx lun. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month.
In the solaris 10 update 5 os the stmsboot command is used to enable, disable or update multipathing for serialattached scsi devices as well as fc devices. Solaris san configuration and multipathing guide oracle docs. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Solaris 10 system administration essentials oracle solaris. With solaris 11 the boot disk must not be configured in connection with mpgroups. Oracle solaris cluster geographic edition provides highly available cloud services to span data centers in several locations.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading solaris 10 system administration essentials oracle solaris system administration series. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Veritas dynamic multipathing dmp provides the multipathing capability to the native devices on the system. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. Zeusiops multipathing failed solaris 11 hi, just installed solaris 11. To enable multipathing perform the following steps to enable multipathing on all multipathcapable devices on sparc or x86x64 based systems. Solaris 10 system administration essentials oracle solaris system administration series kindle edition by solaris system engineers. For the solaris 9 os, have available your software packages, patches, and.
If you want to enable multipathing only on specific fc or sas hba ports, refer to enabling or disabling multipathing on a perport basis the multipathing software automatically recognizes oracles supported devices. Using oracle zfs storage appliance fibre channel and iscsi with symantec storage foundation dmp 3 overview the purpose of this guide is to provide a quick overview on how to configure the oracle zfs storage appliance to provide fibre channel and iscsi storage for use with symantec storage foundation dynamic multipathing dmp. 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. Using oracle zfs storage appliance fibre channel and iscsi with symantec storage foundation dmp 4. Post installation patches for the sun solaris 10 update 6 os. At this time few patch exist, but many cr are open against mpathadm. Note in previous oracle solaris releases, the stmsboot command was used to enable or disable multipathing on the boot device only for sparc based hosts only. Solaris 10 supports solaris network multipathing via. The solaris os has a long history of innovation, and the solaris 10 os is a watershed release that includes features such as. If you are using up to date opensolaris dev builds instead of solaris 10, youll get most of the solaris patches, including source code, for free before solaris 10 paying customers.
Hp storageworks mpxio for sun solaris application notes. We want to migrate a solaris 10 x86 from emc clariion to vnx. Another way is to check multipathing at a single disk. 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.
Its much easier to answer questions when they are very specific with details. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. Multipath for solaris with ds4800 ibm system storage forum. How to install solaris io multipathing software sun cluster. You cannot use both in conjunction, so mpxio must be fully disabled if you intend to use veritas mpd. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Veritas displaying multipathing information using sanlun 51. 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. Installation and upgrade guide for solaris sap help portal. Solaris 10 system administration essentials oracle.
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