Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop

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

• Hardware requirements for Live Upgrade
• Obtaining and installing the correct patch bundle
• Limitations of Live Upgrade

• 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 zones
• Create a BE with empty file systems

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The course covers the use of additional utilities including lucancel, lucompare, lucurr, ludelete, ludesc, lufslist, lumake, lumount, lurename and lustatus