Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all. Solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager configuration example. This is strictly for development at the request of my company, we do not have any existing solaris 89 in production. If youre using a physical cd then thats not a problem vold will automatically mount both of the required slices for you, or if youre not using vold you can mount them manually yourself. This page contains some notes on how to recover from failed disks, etc. This is the sun solaris 9 installation media for sparc systems. If you install from the cdrom, insert the solaris 8 software 2 of 2 cdrom into the cdrom drive on the node. After successfully installing solaris 8 on the system, you can then install the solstice disksuite 4. Metadevice numbers and state database replicas are taken from those used on the actual system. Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. This document provides some approaches to discovering new storage, without performing a reconfiguration reboot. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Please let us know any way to create srt with use of iso image. Solstice disksuite is used to create metadevices, virtual device composed of several physical devices slicesdisks and use them to create different type of raids to protect against disk failures.
It becomes very important to be able to allocate or deallocate space without interruption to service. My goal is to actually run solaris 89 as a vm, ive already have a t5140 running solaris sparc 11. Sun has released solaris 10 cds for free usage download. These patch bundles provides the set of patch preapplied into the corresponding solaris 10 910 update 9 release image. Notes on disaster recovery of solaris boxes using sun disksuite package general musings and departmentally specific background. Older releases of solaris 10 are no longer available as free downloads, either. If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is already installed.
Ending nearly a year of debate with its users, sun microsystems has made available an early access version of its solaris 9 operating system that runs on intelcompatible processors. It is the successor to sunos and was released initially in june of 1992. After replacing a jbod disk that died, the metareplace was ran, the device went into enablesyncing state and then when the sync completed, the state changed to unavailable. How to install solstice disksuite software sun cluster. The solaris 10 910 update 9 patch bundles are now available from sunsolve and my oracle support mos. Hi team, i dont have solaris 9 cd in hand but having oslaris 9 iso image. Solaris volume manager software is installed with solaris 9 software. In addition, the solaris 9 os does not run on sparccenter 2000 or sparcserver systems. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host.
Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in late 1991. Sun upgrades solaris 8, releases free version of iplanet. In order to setup a jumpstart server using the solaris 9 cds you need to have access to both slice 0 and slice 1 on the cds. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
Rename rhn satellite spacewalk server redhat ubuntu solaris linux. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software. Included is a scan of the dvd, and the dump in mdfmds format. Solaris 8 provided disksuite for mirroring disk drives. A change in the launcher by wargaming recently, now forces to use the torrent. Instead, go to how to set the number of metadevice or volume names and disksets.
World of tank on linux wine disable torrent on the new launcher. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. This step assumes that the volume management daemon vold1m is running and configured to manage cdrom devices. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Just to expand upon that, sun renamed disksuite to solaris volume manager, i think, in solaris 9. How to replace a disk which contained soft partitions. Only solaris 9 was released a little later for x86 than sparc but that was the only incident. All, is there a way to raid the disks in solaris 9.
In general, the solaris 8 and 9 operating systems run on the same sun systems as the solaris 2. 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. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice. Hi guys, does anyone know the link to download solaris 8, rel 0703 iso image. Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before solstice disksuite 4. Solaris 9 is no longer available as a free download. Im looking for a solaris 9 iso so i can install it on my ultrasparc, and it appears that i need a support contract from oracle to acquire this i dont have one at the moment. In disksuite or solaris volume manager, an extra step must be taken when physically replacing a disk that contained soft partitions. We recently got a third party in to upgrade our solaris 8 sparc server to solaris 10. No data is ever deleted, and to roll back to solaris 9, all you need is one command and a reboot.
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. Need link for downloading solaris 8, rel 0703 iso image hi guys, does anyone know the link to download solaris 8, rel 0703 iso image. Disksuite, and later solstice disksuite is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 only calculate the number of metadevice names and disk sets needed for your configuration, and modify the kerneldrv. The steps are basically identical for the other releases. This indicates that disksuite has automatically disabled the submirrors, so there is no need to metadetach the submirrors. Click download file button or copy solaris iso url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. Hi everyone, i want to know, is solaris 9 x86 free to download without paying any type of charge or something like that is beos free to download does anyone have any links to download those if they are free thanx everyone. 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. Heres how to leverage liveupgrade to safely upgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 using a spare disk. If you used sunplex manager to install solstice disksuite software, do not perform this procedure. But when i attempted to boot off the cd cd 1 of 2 all i got was cant read disklabel. I therefore downloaded the solaris 9 iso files from sun, and burned them to cd using nero 5 as the cd burner. Before proceeding with this procedure is very important that you follow the following prerequisites.
Does anyone know where i can download disksuite for solaris 10. I believe this started in the opensolaris version and made its way into the solaris10 update 6 0508 i have not heard anything as far as a fix, nor any issues cause directly by it, but who knows. In january, sun announced plans to halt work on the x86 version of solaris 9, focusing instead on developing. Oracle will support solaris 10 through january, hi folks, i have downloaded an iso image of sun solaris 5. This os was typically used on sparc based processors, up until 1994 when it began to support x86 and x8664. In an effort to woo developers into implementing web services via the sun one framework, sun microsystems tuesday released a set of upgrades and enhancements to solaris 8 that includes a free version of iplanet application server, improved java application performance, and advanced tools for storage manageability. Storage requirements for servers and applications is constantly changing.
This document provides the steps involved for installing solstice disksuite 4. Those of you that have taken advantage of our previous extended support offerings for solaris 8 and solaris 9 will notice that weve changed things around a little with solaris 10 extended support. 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. Sun solaris 9 operating environment sparc platform edition. Dear solaris group, its possible to download the solaris 9 x86 iso images maurizio. Solaris 10 910 update 9 patch bundle now available. Android apache aptbtrfssnapshot aptget autostart btrfs calculated column centos compression debian deduplication hostname howto ip address linux list lvm mysql openvz performance proxmox redhat centos repository rhn satellite sds sharepoint 2007 solaris solaris 10 solaris 11 spacewalk ssh ubuntu ubuntu debian unity update usefull. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. Liveupgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 sysadmins journey. Solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software requires that you set the value at names, not 50.
Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. If you installed solaris 9 software, do not perform this procedure. 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. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice. 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. Package names that are nonbold andor with no version number, are not currently available for this version of solaris. If you want it directly from the company, your only recourse is if you happen to have any support contract credentials with oracle. Hello forum folks, im hoping to find a trustworthy download of a solstice.
Solaris 8 was definitely released for both sparc and x86. Metadevices worksheet solstice disksuite solaris volume manager become superuser on the cluster node. It now gets installed by default, whereas with the old disksuite, you had to install it from one of the extra cds. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. Easiest way to do this is to copy the partition table from the root mirror c0t1d0s2 to the new disk. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume. The work was started with support of sun in a working group with 140 international subscribers for the. Since there is currently only a single sun server in physics, we are addressing a specific. If file is multipart dont forget to check all parts before downloading. This applies to internal and external disk drives as well as virtual disks. Ive been searching the internet for many weeks i am subscribed to unix packages, previously sunfreeware and could not find anything.
Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation. Solaris is a unix based operating system created by sun microsystems now purchased by oracle in 2010. The project open solaris was started officially in january 2005, a part of the source code was published. For example, the process of upgrading the operating system from one release to another requires that the solaris filesystem be simple slices, not metadevices. On each node, become superuser and edit the kerneldrvnf file. The os is based off of system v unix and its first release was known internally as sunos 5. Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris.
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