The maximum number of disk sets that are allowed per cluster is 32. If you are using solstice disksuite, you may also be running mdlogd. Im not sure why you consider it to be a security issue unless your referring to the various services that ship with it like rpc. Solaris 8 volume management services are provided by solstice disksuite 4. Chapter 4 endofsoftware support statements solaris 8. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom in the cdrom drive on the node. When you add a disk drive to a diskset, solstice disksuite solaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software. Solaris life cycle commands available at the boot prompt, benchmarks. How to install solstice disksuite software sun cluster. Sds came on its own installation cd for solaris 7 and solaris 8.
At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so. Install solstice disksuite with jumpstart oracle community. Solaris 8 intel platform edition 10 00 release notes sun microsystems, inc. 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. We attempt to cover a wide range of availability requirements by presenting two, three, and fourdisk. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until 1994 when it began to support x86 and x8664. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are presented in detail. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in late 1991. The latest update of the solaris os helps customers alleviate common enterprise problems such as virtualization, resource management, and system performance. Installation of solaris 8 0202 any cluster required. This is normal, a side effect of supporting a variety of development. Just a quick headsup that solaris 9 will transition to vintage support old sun terminology extended support oracle terminology at the end of this month.
Extended support and indefinite sustaining support. Download free solaris volume manager configuration files. Download free solaris volume manager configuration files software. Connecting to an iscsi target with openiscsi initiator using solaris server alex running the solaris 10 operating system sparc. Solaris reference documents collection softpanorama. This section describes end of support statements that apply to the solaris 8 1001 operating environment. Solaris 9 with patch 199402 or later or patch 11855912 or later, and without patch 12237107 solaris 10 without patch 12625704 note. Solaris 8 204 release notes supplement for sun hardwaredownload this book. On solaris 10 clients with solstice disksuite mirrored local disks devmd it will show the disks and their occupancy but not the stats for disk readswrites. This page contains some notes on how to recover from failed disks, etc.
Solaris 9 transitioning to extended support oracle. A security vulnerability in solaris volume manager svm. Installing solaris 8 installing and maintaining solaris 8 pearson it. Solaris 8 system administrator exam cram 2 exam cx310011 and cx310012. Solaris 9 patches released from november 1, 2011, will have vintageextended access entitlement by default, which means that only customers with an extended support contract for solaris. Sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers. Answerbook, answerbook2, java, jdk, disksuite, jumpstart, hotjava, solstice adminsuite, solstice autoclient, sunos, openwindows, xview, and solaris are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold. Svm has been included as a standard part of solaris since solaris 8 was. Oracle premier support provides a standard five year technical support period.
Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before solstice disksuite 4. Solaris supports sparc and x8664 workstations and servers from oracle and other vendors. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all. It is hard to keep the site running and producing new content continue reading howto use metadevices with solstice disksuite. Svm solaris 9 or later, part of end user install clusterkages to install sds 4. Works fine with san based and local disks not under disksuite volume manager. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. We recently got a third party in to upgrade our solaris 8 sparc server to solaris 10. Oracle and sun system software and operating systems march, 2020 page 8. The recommended space for the end user system is 1.
Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager steps. Carl, as long as a system has a majority of its total number of replicas available, it will boot. It describes how to partition the system disk, mirror it, and create and maintain a contingency boot disk. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks. Solaris 8 sparc platform edition release notes sun microsystems, inc.
Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive on the node. The mail client downloads the messages where users view and respond to them at their convenience. Calculate the number of metadevice names and disksets needed. Notes on disaster recovery of solaris boxes using sun disksuite package general musings and departmentally specific background. On solaris 9, all those can be commented out of etcnf without effecting the functioning of disksuite unless your using cluster type functionality. Hi, i had to rebuild a production server operating system only from solaris 2. I know that v240 only support sw raid, but not hw raid. Guidelines for solstice disksuite or solaris volume. Configuring boot disks with solstice disksuite software this document is a practical guide for system disk configuration. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second.
Disksuite s diskset feature is supported only on the sparc platform edition of solaris. It doesnt matter where these are, how many are on any one particular disk, etc. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. Solstice disksuite sds may of just been installed on the system. This sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system. Does anyone know where i can download disksuite for solaris 10. Solaris 10 8 07 u4 added samba active directory support, ip instances part of the opensolaris network virtualization and resource control project, iscsi target support and solaris containers for linux applications based on branded zones, enhanced version of. 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.
Solaris volume manager svm all meta commands error with. Solaris 8 intel platform edition 10 00 release notes. For most products, oracle extends the technical support period by offering an additional three years of extended support and indefinite sustaining support. Used solstice metatool to mirror the boot drive devdskc0t0d0 to devdskc0t1d0 normal boot mounts devmddskd7 as root filesystem tried boot a with all the defaults and when it tries to mount devmddsmd7 as root i get message. Note that the following procedure is for disksuite 4. Sunwmd required base product sunwmdg optional gui package sunwmdn optional snmp log daemon package. This could be a contributing factor to the problem. If i have to install the latest version what does it mean by requires solaris easy. Solstice disksuite is now known as solaris volume manager in solaris 9 and later. This number allows for 31 disk sets for general use plus one disk set for private disk management.
I signed up for that, but now i need an oracle support identifier. With oracle premier support, you know up front and with certainty how long your oracle products are supported. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. 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. This collection provides installation instructions as well as comprehensive usage and reference. 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.
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. You have to download supplemental encryption packages sunwcry. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Download the free user app for your device below, or simply follow the connection instruction visible on the display. For the largest software group entire distribution plus oem with 64bit support, 2. Effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk. Everything is back to normal except solstice disksuite is not installed. The only metadevices that support the root file system are a stripe with only a single.
Howto use metadevices with solstice disksuite software. I havent the cd labeled solaris server intranet extensions 1. Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuite solaris volume manager become superuser on the cluster node. Hi all, do you know where i can download soltice disksuite 4. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. You can find out if disksuite is in use by running the metastat command. Solaris 8 only install solstice disksuite software.
Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. A customer of mine is still using solaris 8, now i have a product which requires testing against this os, however looking at oracle, they merely provide 10 and 11. Ads are annoying but they help keep this website running. Describes how to administer and use secure shell in oracle solaris. By matthew cheek, february 26, 2003 the sun solaris operating environment oe is a mature implementation of unix that runs both on sun sparc and intel x86 architecture hardware. Does anybody know what i have to do to activate raid 1 on a sun v240 solaris 2. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Configuring boot disks with solstice disksuite software. Because its just a frontend stub for the unbundled c compiler sold by sun sunpro c.
Boot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. Solaris 10 update 8 07 has been released and available for download. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010. If, for some reason, you cannot compile on a specific machine, there are binaries available for download see. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold1m is running and configured to manage cdrom devices. Disksuite recognizes whether the computer is booted in 64bit or 32bit mode, and the 4. This document provides the steps involved for installing solstice disksuite 4.
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