Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
The Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop 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.
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Subjects
- Solaris
- IT
Course programme
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
Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop