Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris u5 and cpu hard capping... A patch for u3 and u4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Enda O'Connor
Gael wrote:
 Hello, hello
  
 With the release of Solaris 10 0508, the feature that appears the most 
 appealing for us is the new cpu capping ability... Will that feature 
 be available thru a patch to avoid liveupgrading a lot of systems ?
 Which other  features are benefitial to zones in U5 ?
 Regards

the patch would be 127127-11/127128-11 (SPARC/x86 )  Kernel Update 
patches. These require other patches BTW.
Also remember to install latest rev of patch utilites first ( 
119254/119255 : SPARC/x86 )

Actually if you have diskspace, then I recommend using LiveUpgrade to 
apply these patches, as it has the following benefits
1 only downtime is reboot
2 gives user the ability to rollback the changes.

Enda

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Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris u5 and cpu hard capping... A patch for u3 and u4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread gael martinez
hello Enda,

we do use liveupgrade but as we are using whole zones on dedicated  
individual veritas vxvm ufs filesystems ( to allow mobility) it is  
currently still a very painful approach.

Regards

On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:24, Enda O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Gael wrote:
 Hello, hello
 With the release of Solaris 10 0508, the feature that appears the  
 most appealing for us is the new cpu capping ability... Will that  
 feature be available thru a patch to avoid liveupgrading a lot of  
 systems ?
 Which other  features are benefitial to zones in U5 ?
 Regards

 the patch would be 127127-11/127128-11 (SPARC/x86 )  Kernel Update  
 patches. These require other patches BTW.
 Also remember to install latest rev of patch utilites first ( 119254/119255 
  : SPARC/x86 )

 Actually if you have diskspace, then I recommend using LiveUpgrade  
 to apply these patches, as it has the following benefits
 1 only downtime is reboot
 2 gives user the ability to rollback the changes.

 Enda

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Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris u5 and cpu hard capping... A patch for u3 and u4 ?

2008-04-17 Thread Enda O'Connor
gael martinez wrote:
 hello Enda,

 we do use liveupgrade but as we are using whole zones on dedicated 
 individual veritas vxvm ufs filesystems ( to allow mobility) it is 
 currently still a very painful approach.
In that case. please make sure to first apply the highest rev of 
119254/119255 that is available.
then any required patches for 127127-11
then prior to installing 127127-11 run
patchadd -a 127127-11

this does a dryrun ( modifies no files on system ) and might catch 
issues with unpatchable zones etc, before any damage is permanent.
The output from -a will be verbose ( well same as normal patchadd ), but 
make sure to parse it and examine any errors that it might uncover.
Only then proceed to installing 127127-11
( please make sure that there is sufficient space in / and /var/ and 
/var/run, in the latter case, best to have 150M available. the other 
file systems should have at least 350M free.


Enda

 Regards

 On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:24, Enda O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Gael wrote:
 Hello, hello
 With the release of Solaris 10 0508, the feature that appears the 
 most appealing for us is the new cpu capping ability... Will that 
 feature be available thru a patch to avoid liveupgrading a lot of 
 systems ?
 Which other  features are benefitial to zones in U5 ?
 Regards

 the patch would be 127127-11/127128-11 (SPARC/x86 )  Kernel Update 
 patches. These require other patches BTW.
 Also remember to install latest rev of patch utilites first ( 
 119254/119255 : SPARC/x86 )

 Actually if you have diskspace, then I recommend using LiveUpgrade to 
 apply these patches, as it has the following benefits
 1 only downtime is reboot
 2 gives user the ability to rollback the changes.

 Enda

 -- 
 Gael
  


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[zones-discuss] Solaris u5 and cpu hard capping... A patch for u3 and u4 ?

2008-04-16 Thread Gael
Hello, hello

With the release of Solaris 10 0508, the feature that appears the most
appealing for us is the new cpu capping ability... Will that feature be
available thru a patch to avoid liveupgrading a lot of systems ?
Which other  features are benefitial to zones in U5 ?
Regards

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Gael
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