While devfsadmd 1m updates the device information, the necessary information for cfgadm is locked by devfsadm. This comes is very useful for displaying the status of the devices. Patches fails with unhandled subprocess exit status 5 exit n branch patch fails with below errors. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a. The solaris cfgadm command can be used to configure system devices.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Ok, so you have a solaris 10 host with san connected storage how do you make sense of the luns you can see. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. Running cfgadm with the al option will list these attachment points. How to convert the cfgadm failing state to the intended. This guide shows how to rescan and examine fc luns on solaris 1011. Find answers to solaris 10 change device for a hba port from the expert community at experts exchange. I must do a reconfiguration reboot to get the storage array to see my new server, and after it is zoned and luns are mapped, i am able to do a cfgadm as above and it sees the luns. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array. Solaris 10 hba port offline solutions experts exchange. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date.
Verified the link, zone config and the storage config. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. Solaris specialists blog everything about solaris page 8. Also, solaris live upgrade works the same as in previous releases when you use zfs. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. If you are trying to configure and unconfigure luns on a solaris host, you may be suprised to find that the default cfgadm al output doesnt display the luns on your system. How to remove a failed disk using luxadm and cfgadm. Or you can search for individual packages in the search for. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Find answers to solaris 10 hba port offline from the expert community at experts exchange experts exchange. Solaris 10 live upgrade with zfs is really simple compared to some of the messes you could get into with svm mirrored root disks.
Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6526639 date of resolved release 29nov2007 impact. On solaris 10, with the san software builtin, however, im getting different behavior. Solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. To replace an online host bus adapter hba on an m5000 server. Sparc patch list oracle solaris 10 910 patch list oracle docs. Dynamic reconfiguration and hotplugging oracle solaris. Below is a simple live upgrade be creation and patching example. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. Dynamic reconfiguration on sun enterprise midrange systems. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. If you cannot see your san from solaris 10, check your connections and the san. With the release of solaris 10 operating system os, the configuration of storage area network san. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. The x4170 has a pcix lsi logic dual external u320 parallel scsi card.
A security vulnerability with fibre channel protocol driver fcp7d and devices file system devfs7fs in solaris 10 may allow a local unprivileged user to cause commands such as cfgadm 1m or format1m to hang when run, or cause the system as a whole to hang. Solaris 10, adding new lun from san storage the unix and. Special case 5 for the kernel patch 15040014 or higher on solaris 10 or the kernel patch 1. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be.
But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. Configured zoning and presented the luns to the server from eva6100. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. Cleaning up the operating system device tree after. How to use cfgadm configure in solaris computer how to. The correct method is to use the cfgadm command to unconfigure the device before. Contact sun support if any of the steps in this section fail to produce the wanted results. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog.
Some of us are easy with luxadm and some are with cfgadm. In solaris, if i unplug a couple disks while the machine is running, some functions that check every disk will take awhile because it has to wait for the timeout. Steps for deleting devices in unusable or failing state. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10.
Performs hardware specific operations that allow an occupants hardware resources to be usable by solaris. Without informing the sysadmin, the storage admin has already removed the lun from the assigned server. This document outlines how you can convert the cfgadm failing state for a given access path to the intended unusable path state when a lun has been intentionally removed at the storage array layer scenario. This is required for detecting new luns and to assist with basic storage connectivity troubleshooting. The old solaris luxadm command still manage fc arrays, but mpathadm command has been developed to work on all the arrays using fc, sas, and iscsi connections. For most newer machinesmodels on solaris 10, cfgadm gets used rather than luxadm for disk replacement ie.
Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly. Alternatively, one may want to set a disk to unconfigured mode to eliminate variables when debugging. Using cfgadm to display luns on solaris hosts prefetch. Add and configure luns in solaris posted by elumalai m ensure the following os packages patches are installed this one should be on the first solaris install dvd. Enableconfigure fcalsan devices with cfgadm in solaris. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following.
Vxvm must be informed that the intended paths are being removed to ensure the cfgadm leadville stack correctly reflects the access path state. Postinstallation patches for the sun solaris 10 update 6 os. However cfgadm and luxadm do the same job but in different way. Check the solaris 10 patch level recommended for dynamic reconfiguration operations and contact sun support for further assistance. Hello to all, actually, currently on my solaris box, ive a lun 5tb space from a emc storage which is working fine, and a partition with zfs filesystem is created for that lun.
Sparc enterprise servers hardware platform guide fujitsu. How to scan for new fc devices and gather lun information. Boot server from a oracle source media, such as, cdromdvd then check if still have issue or not. This section contains the latest information about dynamic reconfiguration dr functionality for the following midrange servers that are running the solaris 10 software. It did require updating kernel patches on solaris 10 u7 to support the hot plug feature. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. So the solaris 10 u7 server does now detect the tape drive and the autoloader. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Hi all, we added hba card to one of the solaris 9 server sun fire v240. A solaris host with seemingly functional fc hba ports is unable to display those ports with the cfgadm or fcinfo commands. This section describes the solaris tm system administration and maintenance utilities and is for system and network administrators.
Hi i have a solaris 8 server that have lun being removed from the server but it is still show up as error device in format command and in vxvm, i have. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. If solaris os was newly installed the issue maybe os is missing some packages patches. The solaris cfgadm1m command does not unconfigure a dvd drive from a. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. The cfgadm command can be used to view the system attachment points which are broadly defined as the location of certain hardware resources visible to solaris. Home operating system solaris 10 11 volume manager how to create a metaset solaris 10. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. Checking patches that you specified for installation. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. Im running solaris 10 in a solaris mahcine and i dont know why a hba port is in offline state. These steps are not required for solaris 10 which includes everything you need to connect to a san, even to boot from it. A security vulnerability resulting from solaris 10 fcp7d. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches.
This will include san hbas and luns, usb devices, internal disks such as sata etc. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. On it i have two vm guests my production file server running solaris 10 u7 and a test file server running solaris 10 u9. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. We are installing solaris 10 update 11 x8664 and have a small problem. This document outlines the required multistep path removal guidelines when removing access for a paths to a lun from a solaris sparc environment key points. Normally, when a lun is removed solaris will change it to a failedfailing state in cfgadm command output then within 30 second it.
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