Hi, I'm pretty new to Solaris and after a bit of searching and reading I would like to ask a few questions how to ease my life ;)
We have a couple of X4500 and would like to reduce the amount of work needed to install the boxes, keep them fully patched, have a test environment for new patches and - if possible - don't waste the system disks. Right now I installed two of the boxes manually via the ILOM, patching the box either via pca or via patch clusters work, but requires quite a bit of manual work. I have not yet looked too much into jumpstart, but if I understood it correctly, it would just help me get the basic installation done and does not help me to clone an identical image to a master. Also setting up the mirrorred disk would require running yet another script. Please correct me if I'm wrong here! Another item on my list is, that I don't want to lose 2x500GB or even 2x1TB to system disks which only need 10-20GB at most. There are many ideas how to do that, e.g. using two USB drives/sticks in mirrored mode or boot from an NFS share and put /var either onto the local zpool or onto NFS as well. However, either these options are not (officially) supported or I simply don't know if they would work at all. Finally, I would like to find a method where I can test a new patch set/cluster before moving these to the production machines. With a NFS root this would be rather trivial - at least in principle. Can you shed some lights on my darkening brain, what possibilities do exist and which are already tested/working - also a description of the steps involved/a HOWTO would be extremely appreciated. TIA Carsten _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
