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Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop
Live Upgrade provides advanced upgrading and
patching capabilities on Solaris SPARC and Intel platforms, especially
since the 10/08 update 6 release, which introduced ZFS root pools. Boot
environments can now be almost instantly cloned for upgrading or
patching while the system is live, and once the upgrade or patching is
done, only a reboot is required to complete the task. The old boot
environment. acts as a backup to fall back to in case of problems..
This one-day training course provides a thorough and
practical look at Live Upgrade for both upgrading the OS and installing
patches. The course proides extensive
practical sessions, covering both UFS and ZFS boot environments.
Additional
Live Upgrade facilities are also demostrated, such as the ability to
install a boot environment from a Flash Archive.
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For pricing for a course run especially for your organisation, please
use our worksheet **Also available on your site for groups of four to
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COURSE DATES:
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Additional dates may be added if uptake
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CODES: :(H) - Harwell, (N) - Newark
INTENSITY: About 40% of the course is
practicals, and 60% lectures
RESOURCE: Each student will
have exclusive use
of
a SPARC server to configure and test, and access to an Intel based
system. Each attendee will be provided with their own set of
comprehensive notes.
PREREQUISITES: Attendees must have
Solaris experience including systems
administration and IP network configuration. In particular, knowledge
of system disk configuration, file system creation, Solaris
installation, ZFS file system operation, and patching is essential.
PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student
leaves the course with their own set of training notes.
| Every student who attends this course
will be issued with a signed certificate of course completion. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: Uses Solaris 10
Update 6 but most of the course (excepting ZFS root pools) is relevant
to previous versions.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Introduction
What is Live Upgrade? An introduction to the major
facilities of Live Upgrade, including:-
- Creating one (or more) copies of the currently
running system (Boot Environment or BE).
- Upgrading a BE copy to a new Solaris version.
- Installing applications, Solaris packages, and
patches on a BE.
- Installing a flash archive within a BE copy.
- Booting from a BE copy.
- Reverting back to a previously working BE.
- Mounting a BE.
- Creating a ZFS pool, creating a BE within it, and
migrating an existing system to the new BE.
These facilities will be covered by using several practical scenarios,
including Solaris 8/9 to 10 upgrade, Solaris 10 version upgrades, and
Solaris 10 UFS to ZFS root pool transition. Live Upgrade on x86 systems
is also covered.
System Requirements and
planning
- Hardware requirements for Live Upgrade.
- Obtaining and installing the correct patch bundle.
- Limitations of Live Upgrade.
Create a BE with lucreate
- Create a new boot environment (BE) from the currently
running operating environment.
- Create a new BE from a BE other than the currently
running one.
- Re-configure the file systems of a BE when creating a
new BE. For example, place (a currently separate) /var and /opt under
/, and perform similar operations in reverse to create separate slices
from merged file systems.
- How Live Upgrade works with BE's containing
non-global zones.
- Create a BE with empty file systems.
Upgrade a BE to a new OS
version with luupgrade
- Upgrade a BE to a new version of the Solaris OS from
a Solaris distribution medium or a Flash archive.
- Check an operating system distribution medium.
Other uses for luupgrade
- Extract a Solaris Flash archive to an empty BE.
- Add and remove packages within a BE.
- Add and remove patches within a BE.
- Check or obtain information about packages in a BE.
Activation of a BE,
booting issues, and reverting back to a previous BE.
- Using luactivate to select a BE as the currently
active BE.
- How files are synchronised between BE's.
- Determining which is the currenlty acive BE.
- Reverting to a previous BE if problems occur.
Using ZFS as a root pool
in Solaris 10 U6
- How to create a root ZFS pool, and migrate an
existing system to it, upgrading to Solaris 10 U6 along the way!
- Performing Live Upgrade operations on a ZFS root pool
without the need for extra disk partitions.
Additional Utilities
- The course covers the use of additional utilities
including lucancel, lucompare, lucurr, ludelete, ludesc, lufslist,
lumake, lumount, lurename and lustatus.
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