Unless some of the normal user had sudo root access, you. Issue the following command, which displays the list of pools that are available for importing. If there is no space available for metadb then it can be taken from swap. The same way you can also remove the virtual disk resources and virtual network resources. Changing the installation location solaris 10 to install reflection for secure it to a nondefault location, you can create a response file a text file that provides information to the installer package and use the prefix variable to identify the target directory for the installation, as described in the next procedure. How do you replace a failed boot disk under meta in solaris. The patch was installed with patchadd d which instructs patchadd not to save copies of files being updated or replaced the patch has been obsoleted by a later patch.
Make sure that the state database replica is no longer needed. How to replace a failed disk solaris volume manager. On solaris 11, reflection for secure it installation uses the image packaging system ips. This is the proceedure for removing a metaset in solaris. As it stands it looks like a reboot is required to remove the luns, but iam hoping it just something i.
All the parts of a package are maintained in a table of contents. You might need to delete state database replicas to maintain your solaris volume manager configuration. Adding and removing packages with pkgadd and pkgrm. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. To install in a nonglobal zone using the system repository. Create new vfstab by removing the entry related to testset. Dec 06, 2017 the installation of solaris cluster sc 4. Though the installation itself is simple and straight forward but doing it the first time comes with its own anxiety associated with unexplored and unknown things. The sysadm who was here before created a metadb on the san which i need to remove during maintenance this weekend. The state database contains the configuration and status information of all volumes, hot spares and disk sets. Having metadb on two disks can create problems as disksuite looks for database replica number 50% of total replicas and if one of the two disks crashes the replica falls.
Download solaris 10 1009 operating system dvd full for solaris 10 os, sparc, multilanguage. How to remove a failed disk using luxadm and cfgadm the. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. Solaris is designed to not need additional software for important system tasks. Solaris 10 introduces many new features to the unix environment. At each prompt, type y, n, or q to specify that you want to remove the package, not remove the. How to install oracle 10g on solaris oracle database. The installation is reasonably straight forward, but it is not as simple and takes significantly longer than most modern linux installations.
I am installing oravcle 11g on solaris 10 on a local sun machine. Solaris 10 how to access svm root disk from fail safe. The article is based on a default server installation as shown here. How to remove state database replicas disksuite tool make sure you have met the prerequisites prerequisites for removing disksuite objects and have read the preliminary information preliminary information for removing state database replicas. These are notes about installing solaris from scratch. This method is helpful for that systems where is not possible to use install server in the same ethernet network segment as client location and also not possible to place boot server too. Actual problem is dvd drive in my server is faulted. Reading these notes is no substitute for a reading the documentation, or b knowing what youre doing. Formerly, when this sort of problem came up, one could go to etclu and delete the corresponding icf. The following example will remove all database state replicas from all twelve drives. There is no much difference compare to solaris 10 using dvdcd installation method and you need to answer very less questions. It also describes the steps required to plug the database into netbackup and perform a database bare metal recovery bmr. To provide redundancy we create multiple copies of the state database called as state database replicas. Solved fully backup solaris 10 sparc x64 environment for.
Now in case of losing any state database replica svm determines the valid state database replica by using majority consensus algorithm. For solaris 10, you dontits too late now, but you should have read the recommendations on disk partitions and sizes in section 4 of this faq. Dec 18, 2008 solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. The server is connected to the emc ax45 via a cisco mds 9124 fc switch. Now i was doing a practical wherein i m removing a hard disk attached to the machine. Jun 11, 20 installation of solaris 11step by step guide june 11, 20 by lingeswaran r 3 comments many of the solaris beginners will be wondering that how to install solaris 11.
Solstice disk suite is a part of server edition of the solaris os and is not included with desktop edition. Locate any state database replicas that might have been placed on the failed disk. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. Is there a faster way to remove a directory then simply submitting. Solaris 10 installation guide basic installations sun microsystems.
Hello techies, i have installed solaris on my vmware. Most software provided for a solaris system comes in a package. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Removing state database replicas solstice disksuite 4. Ads are annoying but continue reading solaris starting and stopping dtlogin cde. The metadb command creates and deletes replicas of the metadevice state database. I neglected to mention the solaris version and no longer have a recent solaris box to check this on, so check the manpages and give it a try if it seems appropriate. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. Removing volumes using solaris 9 volume manager commands. First of first you need solaris sparc 10 dvd install image. When you back out a patch, the patchrm command restores all files modified by that patch, unless. Due to that if you try to connect to server over xdmcp using.
How to remove m characters from file in unixsolaris sun. Uninstalling mysql on solaris database administrators stack. Packages on solaris allow easy installation and extraction of software. Every organization may have their own way to secure the root passwords for their servers.
How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network. The etcsystem file is automatically updated with the new information and the etclvm file is updated removing a stripe. Hi all, i need to install solaris 10 in v440 server. Remove os mirrored disk solaris 10 hello once again seeking your help, i have a mirrored disk and need to unmirror it to mount it as a new file system export but could not find the correct steps to do it with out affecting the original disk. Can any one help me to install a solaris with out cdrom. To remove all of the database replica with one command, you will need to use the f option. How to kill user session through database and unix. Installation of solaris 11step by step guide unixarena. The installer checks prereqs and gives me the following error. Destroying the infrastructure is a easy task in all the environments. Solaris starting and stopping dtlogin cde nixcraft. But sometimes due to human error, there may be chance to loose root password.
I have followed all the prereq steps provided in oracle documentation but after all that when im trying to run the installer using oracle user. However, solaris by default installs cde or gnome desktop. Understanding metadb flags the geek diary skip to primary navigation. State database replicas can be created on dedicated slices, or on slices that will later become part of a simple metadevice concatenation or stripe or raid5 metadevice. Sun solaris 10 metadb how many copies of the metadabase. This article provides a pictorial guide for performing a default installation of solaris 10 x8632. If you want to permanently remove it you will have to find where in your shell initialisation files it is defined and remove it. In some cases you may not able to remove the resources if its in use or already bound to any guest. Drag the metadb object from the objects list to the metadevice editor windows canvas.
I really dont want to have to reboot to achieve this. I can present the luns to system fine and everything works as expected. Tulisan ini, aslinya bernama solaris basic administration. Displaying file contents more, cat deleting files rm use the rm remove command to delete copyfile, and verify the result.
But when i enter the format command i am able to see the disk. Documentation home solaris advanced users guide chapter 3 working with files and directories using file commands deleting files rm solaris advanced users guide. Removing directories rmdir solaris advanced users guide. Had you used the full path usrbinrm it would have worked the same as usrxpg4binrm. Jul 02, 2015 solaris 10 how to access svm root disk from fail safe cdrom boot by ramdev published february 15, 2014 updated july 2, 2015 this procedure explains the steps required to access a root filesystem under svm, during the situation when the solaris cannot boot in normal way and it require to boot from failsafe or cdrom. For this example, you must be booted from at least the solaris 10 1008 os media. The failed disk in any solaris servers can be removed basically using these 2 commands. When i enter below command to create meta db getting the following. Adding and removing packages with pkgadd and pkgrm to add packages with pkgadd. The etclvm file is automatically updated with the new information. Metadb needs a dedicated disk slice so create partitions of about 5 meg.
The package tools allow you to install and remove software easily without having to worry about ghost files left on the system or misconfigured or partly installed software. If the directory still contains files or subdirectories, the rmdir command does not remove the directory to remove a directory and all its contents, including any subdirectories and files, use the rm command with the recursive option, r. Unable to delete a boot environmet of solaris 10 life upgrade. Iam hoping to remove unused emc luns from my solaris servers, t2000 5. Downloads tab server and storage system solaris solaris 10 2.
For example, if you will be replacing disk drives, you would want to delete the state database replicas before you remove the drives so they are not considered to have errors by solaris volume manager. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. Here my disk set name is testset and owned by two nodes node1 and node2. Migrating from oracle solaris 10 jumpstart to automated installer migration of oracle solaris 10 and earlier jumpstart infrastructure can be aided with js2ai tool.
Jumpstart rules ai criteria, jumpstart profiles ai manifests. I believe solaris 11 supports trim with zfs, but not with svm. How to replace a failing svm disk solaris commands. Solaris has a feature known as flash archive flar that will allow you to take a snapshot of your server and put it away in a safe location. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. However, i cant completely remove a lun without a reboot. In this example, two disks, c1t0d0 and c1t1d0, are mirrored to each other using solaris volume manager. Solaris volume manager svm metadb command show flags f and d for replica device. How to delete state database replicas solaris volume. When you sometimes copy a file from windows to unix solaris or even linux systems, you can find these anooying m characters everywhere. So the harddisks on some of the machines are frequently running out of space.
Solaris installation poses a challenges to the new solaris sysadmins who have never done the installation of solaris before. The post describes the meaning of the fields displayed in the metadb i command. How to remove state database replicas command line after checking the prerequisites prerequisites for removing disksuite objects, and the preliminary information preliminary information for removing state database replicas, use the metadb 1m command with the d option to delete state database replicas. Oracle solaris 10 installation on vmware workstation youtube. The following documentation provides instructions for building an oracle database residing on a sun solaris 10 version 5. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies.
If your disk indeed has failed, this article will show you how to replace a failed svm disk. Disk replacement, maintenance, operational activity, sds, solaris sun operating system disk replacement procedure even though it seems to be a easy task to replace the os disk there are often issues on the correct. It is always good idea not to use the x windows system on dedicated solaris servers. Install and uninstall on oracle solaris 11 reflection. Now, i have removed the disk through vmware and the disk is not showing me in settings. In oracle vm for sparc also,you can easily remove the guest domains in few seconds.
Solaris 10 wanboot installation or solaris 10 installation. Not like windows hi all, id like to know if there is a software to backup the physical solaris server as a whole image more like symantec backup exec system recovery 2010 in windows serve. I have started aka in 2009 as my own personal reference blog, and later sometime i have realized that my leanings might be helpful for other unixadmins if i manage my knowledgebase in more user friendly format. You can temporarily remove the alias with the unalias command. This is because, the file from windows is in dos ascii format and needs to be converted to iso format. Solaris volume manager svm metadb command show flags f. The underlying data and possibly a metadevice, if the master consists of one on the file systems is still preserved, unless you also remove that metadevice or remove the slice. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. When i tried to remove, i dont know where to find the path. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. Removing a solaris patch system administration guide.
Install and uninstall on oracle solaris 10 reflection. The disk is blank and is not formatted into partition. Solaris 10 is secure by default and starts services on localhost instead of system name or all hosts. I am new to solaris and having problem with svm to create mirroring on m4000 server with solaris 10. Removing an installed package is easy, but any command associated with removing is worth your attention. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. Solaris unless youre running under veritas doesnt support modifying slices without destroying data on the entire slice. I am asking this because our daily crossplatform builds are really huge e. To remove the installed package sunwtchrx from a system, run this command as root.
How to delete a user managing user accounts and user. Now i want to remove the old disks from the os so the array can be unzoned without the os noticing and raising alerts because disks have disappeared. Removing mpxio devices without a reboot on solaris 10. Identify the failed disk to be replaced by examining the varadmmessages file and the metastat command output. Notes on installing solaris 10 from cd softpanorama. According to their security polices,unix administrators need to change the servers roots password on routine basis. Enabling xdmcp in solaris 10 by gopi desaboyina october 7, 2009 gopi desaboyina solaris blogs. If you not have it then you can download one for free after registration from this address. But what makes this insurance policy good is it gives you options. I have a list of the process i have followed for the removal of the luns. Any information pertaining to the master device is rolled from the log device prior to removing the trans metadevice. Note that s2 the usual way of addressing a disk in solaris is also removed. This means that the disk will show as full and be unwritable by anyone other than root when the disk exceeds 90% of actual capacity. First things first, you must umount any volumes on that disk, disable swap on it, and in every other say stop using it e.
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