[zones-discuss] How to Upgrade Sparse Zone from 10U2 to 10U3
All,
Sorry if this is repetitious, but I did a quick search of the
archives and did not see this. I have a sparse zone running on a 10U2
system and I need to migrate it to a system running 10U3. I know that
you are not supposed to force the import if the two systems do not
match, but I thought I read that a new feature was coming that would
permit an import to update the zone to the new OS level. Is that out
(or available as a patch) ?
Or is there a manual method I could use to update the packages
and patches on the sparse zone when moving it ? I am thinking along
the lines of the following:
1) shut down old zone
2) copy old zone to new template zone (already created on new system
but not installed)
3) diff the package and patch info under /var/sadm to see how the
copied zone differs from the OS on the new system
4) apply packages and patches only to the new zone root as necessary
to bring it into alignment with the OS on the new system
5) import patched new zone into the new system
or am I just out of luck and I can't get the zone into alignment
with the new system.
The new system is already up and running, with a couple sparse zones
already, so I can't just install it to match the old system. The DBA
need to free up resources on the old server, which is why this zone is
moving.
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Re: [zones-discuss] How to Upgrade Sparse Zone from 10U2 to 10U3
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Enda O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
basically you'll need to have the old zone at the same patch/package
level, a zoneadm attach should tell you what is out of sync.
Right, I understand that.
So you'll have to patch the old system to same level as new system.
Basically as a starting point the Kernel Patches will need to be
identical, ie 118833-36 on both systems,
118833-33 was the Ku in u3, but rev 36 was the only Ku released that
will satisfy this.
So both systems will need 118833-36.
Unfortunately, I can't get a window to patch the old system,
it is the full on production DB server with a dozen production zones
on it. Part of the reason for moving this zone off is a piece of the
shell game that will (eventually) get all the servers up to 10U4.
Let me ask the question a slightly different way ... is there
a way I can patch *just* a non-global sparse zone ? If there is, then
I can just apply the patches there to match the new system it is
moving to. The manpage on patchadd is slightly unclear on this. I
suspect that if SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES is set to TRUE on *any* of the
packages involved, then I am out of luck and need to fall back to Plan
B (create a new zone and reinstall the application).
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Re: [zones-discuss] How to Upgrade Sparse Zone from 10U2 to 10U3
Paul Kraus wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Enda O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi basically you'll need to have the old zone at the same patch/package level, a zoneadm attach should tell you what is out of sync. Right, I understand that. So you'll have to patch the old system to same level as new system. Basically as a starting point the Kernel Patches will need to be identical, ie 118833-36 on both systems, 118833-33 was the Ku in u3, but rev 36 was the only Ku released that will satisfy this. So both systems will need 118833-36. Unfortunately, I can't get a window to patch the old system, it is the full on production DB server with a dozen production zones on it. Part of the reason for moving this zone off is a piece of the shell game that will (eventually) get all the servers up to 10U4. Let me ask the question a slightly different way ... is there a way I can patch *just* a non-global sparse zone ? If there is, then I can just apply the patches there to match the new system it is moving to. The manpage on patchadd is slightly unclear on this. I suspect that if SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES is set to TRUE on *any* of the packages involved, then I am out of luck and need to fall back to Plan B (create a new zone and reinstall the application). No there isn't really, most of the relevant patches are ALLZONES=true, especially Kernel patches. so you'll need to have the zone in sync witht he target system. Enda ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
