With solaris volume manager you can clear any metadevice and recreate it without losing data. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice disksuite command line method without taking solaris down. Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. This number allows for 31 disk sets for general use plus one disk set for private disk management. This addition to solaris means significant changes to operations related to service administration. Solaris for isps administration guidedownload this book solaris for isps installation guide. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. Ia platform only you can download the solaris 8 device configuration.
If you have an 18 gig drive on your machine, you can get solaris 9 to run on a sparc 20, although it is not supported. It was built into solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software the name of the product depends on the version of the code, but otherwise, they are the same. In previous versions, you had to purchase the server mediaas opposed to workstation media that shipped with either internet extensions cdsolaris 2. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory. Notes on disaster recovery of solaris boxes using sun disksuite package general musings and departmentally specific background. Solstice disksuite is an unbundled software package that offers a pseudo device driver called ametadisk driver providing better performance, greater capacity, and improved availability of data. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive on the node.
Install the packages from the second solaris cd you need sunwmdr, sunwmdu and sunwmdx, the other packages are optional. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. Solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software uses the additional disk set to manage the private disks on the local host. Hi, can someone point the web links to download the iso cd image files for solaris 8 installation on intel machines.
This document provides the steps involved for installing solstice disksuite 4. If you used sunplex manager to install solstice disksuite software solaris 8. As of november 6th, 2003, the download file is called. The solaris 9 release seamlessly supports the upgrade of existing systems that run solstice disksuite sds to the solaris volume manager. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators september 2002 international technical support organization sg24658400.
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. Hi all, do you know where i can download soltice disksuite 4. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. See chapter 7, troubleshooting the system, in solstice disksuite 4. Installing solaris 8 installing and maintaining solaris 8 pearson it. Solaris management console, solaris resource manager, solstice disksuite, sun. Sun services solaris 10 os installation and upgrade options there are a number of different ways that a solaris 10 installation can take place. Solaris reference documents collection softpanorama. For example, the process of upgrading the operating system from one release to another requires that the solaris filesystem be simple slices, not metadevices. Solaris 8 system administrator exam cram 2 exam cx310011 and cx310012. Solaris 8 installation english sparc platform edition cd 31. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. Solstice disksuite comes bundled with the solaris 8 operating system. Solaris on sparc system administrator penguintutor.
Solaris installation graphical user interface gui solaris installation command line interface cli solaris custom jumpstart software jumpstart software installation solaris flash. 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. Server product and makes them available from the sun download center. See the appropriate solaris 10 release and installation collection on. This upgrade does not disturb or change the configuration. Introductionthe solaris 8 system administrator s reference is your complete alphabetic reference to all of the manual pages in section 1m of the online reference documentation for the solaris 8 release. Metadevice numbers and state database replicas are taken from those used on. The pdf version is free to redistribute as long as credit. For the solaris 8 release, new features interesting to system administrators are. Some sun applications, such as disksuite, cannot be upgraded automatically. I already created my state databases, one on each of 2 paritions on each drive.
Segmentation fault errors posted july 30, 2005 by quinn mchenry in solaris system administration the solaris volume manager is a replacement for solstice disksuite and provides software raid functionality of sun solaris systems. Solaris volume manager administration guide comparisons of disksuite vs. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in late 1991. The server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register.
Solstice disksuite allows for up to threeway mirroring of any. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. Solaris volume manager is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling raid0. Solstice disksuite, solaris volume manager, solaris jumpstart, nfs. Solaris 10 will not run on sparc 20s or even ultra 1s. Solaris 8 advanced installation guide james cook university high. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers root sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands. Boot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. Prior to upgrading the operating system, the administrator must first remove disksuite from the system, while preserving the data in. How to install solstice disksuite software sun cluster. The metatrans implementation was the first version of ufs to implement logging. Ive been looking all over the sun site and others and i cant find were to download it, if i click on something like solaris 8 binaries in the downloads page it just tells me about solaris. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
This page contains some notes on how to recover from failed disks, etc. Effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk. Upgrades of mirrored root file systems are fully and automatically supported. Hey does anyone know of a direct link to download solaris 8 for an intel system. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice. Since there is currently only a single sun server in physics, we are addressing a specific. Guidelines for solstice disksuite or solaris volume. Become superuser, or assume the primary administrator role. Solaris 8 solaris is the unixbased operating system of sun microsystems with roots in the bsd operating system family.
Download free solaris volume manager configuration files. However, popular packages are updated frequently and by subscriber request, more up to date packages may be also be present for other versions of solaris. Installing solaris 8 installing and maintaining solaris. This chapter provides a quick reference to the contents of this book by functional grouping. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until 1994 when it began to support x86 and x8664. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in. Chapter 8, using roles and privileges overview, in system administration. Solaris 9 introduces solaris volume manager, which has all the capabilities of suns. 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. This is provided free on the installation cds but is not installed by default and is not supported by sun. This book contains many real life examples derived from the authors experience as a linux. Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before solstice disksuite 4. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010. I want to add an additional disk to a solaris 10 server.
System administration tools whats new in the solaris 9 4. For a sparc system, see the solaris 8 sun platform guide. One area in which windows 2000 bested solaris 8 was storage management. Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. After successfully installing solaris 8 on the system, you can then install the solstice disksuite 4. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold. The solaris 8 admin pack takes key features that were originally part of the. Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before.
I havent the cd labeled solaris server intranet extensions 1. Install the solaris 10 807 or solaris 10 508 release on the target system. This techrecipe describes the command that will enable the nfs server in solaris 10. Following packages are part of it but only the sunwmd is the minimum. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. So1 solaris 10 oe system administration ii 5 unit 7 system logging 1. If your system is running volume management, the cd is mounted automatically. Boot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment and its book disk. The new service management facility in solaris 10 provides a powerful means of administering services.
Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris. Solaris 8 204 release notes supplement for sun hardwaredownload this book. Package names that are nonbold andor with no version number, are not currently available for this version of solaris. Svm has been included as a standard part of solaris since solaris 8 was released in february 2000. Download free solaris volume manager configuration files software.
At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so. The maximum number of disk sets that are allowed per cluster is 32. The metatrans implementation is limited to solaris 7 and was replaced by logging ufs lufs. This sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. For an intelcompatible system, see the solaris 8 intel platform edition hardware compatibility. System administration guide, volume 1 coastal zone network. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are presented in detail. The following example, with metadevice d8 that cannot be repaired, illustrates such a recovery. Is disksutie part of solaris 10 or should i used format uitility to add the hard drive and then volumne manager to extend the new hard drive. Solstice disksuite software solaris 8 oe and solaris volume manager solaris 9 oe just the facts sun fire e2900 server solstice backup software allows a solaris oe server to provide automated, highperformance backup, recovery, and storage management. The following list summarizes the preparation steps for installing solaris 8 on a sparc or intelcompatible platform from a local cdrom drive. The 2nd drive was bigger than the first but i only partitioned the part of a drive so it was identical in size and structure to the first this is a test system before a. Network administration cheatsheet l identifies commonly used network administration commands in the oracle solaris.
Removing volumes using solaris 9 volume manager commands removing a state database replica removing a stripe removing a concatenation removing a mirror removing a raid5 volume removing a hot spare. Special considerations in solaris volume manager administration guide for. Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuite solaris volume manager become superuser on the cluster node. Im installing and configuring disksuite on a solaris 8 ultra 5, my first experience with it.