Month: November 2016

Upgrading from Solaris 11.1 to Solaris 11.3

This page has all the details for upgrading server from Solaris 11.1 to Solaris 11.3.

Repository Download for Solaris 11.3.

Find existing Solaris and Oracle patch status details @

For downloading the Solaris Repository Files Use below mentioned link:-

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/local-repository-2245081.html

 

Once download completed, copy zip files to the patch repository machine i.e. 178.97.21.64.

  • Login as root and create the directory  /softrepo/repo113full/
  • Copy the iso file to the target directory “repo113full”.

Note: You can use WinSCP for transferring patch.

 

 

Patch apply

 

On Primary server i.e.(178.97.21.64)

Install the Repository by using below mentioned steps :

 

#cd /softrepo/repo113full
#./install-repo.ksh -d /softrepo/repo113full -c -v -I

 

Share the full directory of the repository:

 

#share -F nfs /softrepo/repo113full/

 

On the target LDOM i.e.(178.97.21.200)

 

Create a mount directory and mount the directory of repository:

 

#mkdir mnt_11_3
#mount -F nfs 158.97.21.64:/softrepo/repo113full/ /mnt_11_3
#mount -F hsfs /mnt_11_3/sol-11_3-repo.iso /mnt

 

Set the publisher:

 

#pkg set-publisher -g file:///mnt/repo solaris
#pkg publisher

 

Check compatibility with the current system patch version:

 

#pkg update -nv

 

Update the packages:

 

#pkg update --accept

 

Reboot the machine:

 

#init 6

 

After reboot you can confirm if Upgrade is successful by running below mentioned command:–

root@Testing:~# uname -v
11.3

Creating an ext4 File System on RHEL .

In this we will create mount point with name /ora00
a) Use lsblk command to find out which disk was added to Server

[root@TESTING ~]$ lsblk
 NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
 fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk
 sda 8:0 0 30G 0 disk
 ├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot
 └─sda2 8:2 0 29.5G 0 part
 ├─rhel-root 253:0 0 27.5G 0 lvm /
 └─rhel-swap 253:1 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
 sdb 8:16 0 10G 0 disk
 sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

As you can see in above output disk sdb was added of size 10G.

 

b) Now you have to make directory ora00 for which we will use ora00 command.

[root@TESTING ~]# mkdir /ora00

 

c) Once directory is created we will create physical volume by command pvcreate.

[root@TESTING ~]# pvcreate /dev/sdb
 Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created

d) Now we will create volume group:

Volume groups are nothing but a pool of storage that consists of one or more physical volumes.
Once physical volume is created we can create volume group from that physical volume

[root@TESTING ~]# vgcreate vg_ora00  /dev/sdb
 Volume group "vg_ora00" successfully created

 

e) Now we will create Logical volume of size 9.7 GB from that Volume group:

[root@TESTING ~]# lvcreate -L 9.7G -n lv_ora00  vg_ora00
 Rounding up size to full physical extent 9.70 GiB
 Logical volume "lv_ora00" created.

 

f) Now we will create ext4 filesystem on that logical volume:

[root@TESTING ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg_ora00/lv_ora00
 mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
 Filesystem label=
 OS type: Linux
 Block size=4096 (log=2)
 Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
 Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
 636480 inodes, 2543616 blocks
 127180 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
 First data block=0
 Maximum filesystem blocks=2151677952
 78 block groups
 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
 8160 inodes per group
 Superblock backups stored on blocks:
 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: done
 Writing inode tables: done
 Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
 Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

 

g) Once that is done we can have to mount /ora00 directory.

[root@TESTING ~]# mount /dev/vg_ora00/lv_ora00 /ora00

Now you can confirm above directory with below mentioned command:--

[root@TESTING ~]$ df -h
 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/mapper/rhel-root 28G 3.3G 25G 13% /
 devtmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev
 tmpfs 1.9G 84K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
 tmpfs 1.9G 8.9M 1.9G 1% /run
 tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
 /dev/mapper/vg_ora00-lv_ora00 9.5G 37M 8.9G 1% /ora00

 

h) For making those change permanent you have to add this entry in fstab file :-

[root@TESTING ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

#
 # /etc/fstab
 #
 /dev/mapper/rhel-root / xfs defaults 0 0
 UUID=92aebe3b-0927-4ad6-9992-752de4cf2f5f /boot xfs defaults 0 0
 /dev/mapper/rhel-swap swap swap defaults 0 0
 /dev/mapper/vg_ora00-lv_ora00 /ora00 ext4 defaults 1 2