Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-09-14 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Steffen Weiberle wrote: Jeff Victor wrote On 09/14/06 10:35,: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones.

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-09-14 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Jeff Victor wrote On 09/14/06 10:35,: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones. The key is whether or no

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-09-14 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Jeff Victor wrote On 09/14/06 10:35,: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones. The key is whether or

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-09-14 Thread Jeff Victor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones. The key is whether or not the file system is "available" under

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-09-14 Thread David . Comay
Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? The situation is the same for both sparse and whole-root zones. The key is whether or not the file system is "available" under the miniroot since the upgr

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-09-14 Thread linda kateley
Does it make any difference as to where or what kind of fs that the zoneroot is mounted? and is there any difference with a whole root zone? linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S10 1/06: Will not update a zoned system. You must remove the zones before updating. Actually, that's not quite rig

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread Christine Tran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, that's not quite right. Standard upgrade is supported in upgrading from 3/05 to 1/06. Heh, I will have to eat crow then, a customer told me that he upgrade a box with zones from 3/05 to 1/06 and I said I don't know how you managed to do that, according to

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread David . Comay
S10 1/06: Will not update a zoned system. You must remove the zones before updating. Actually, that's not quite right. Standard upgrade is supported in upgrading from 3/05 to 1/06. S10 6/06: Will not use LiveUpgrade to update a zoned system. If you want to update a zoned system, you must use

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread Jeff Victor
To summarize: S10 1/06: Will not update a zoned system. You must remove the zones before updating. S10 6/06: Will not use LiveUpgrade to update a zoned system. If you want to update a zoned system, you must use Standard Upgrade. S10 ?/??: Can update a zoned system with Standard Upgrade of L

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread Jason Schroeder
Outdated - there wasn't anything to upgrade s10 + zones *to* till 1/06... http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0552/6mgbi4fgb?a=view /jason Christine Tran wrote: Hi David, Umm ... sorry, perhaps this is outdated, my notes have a section cut&pasted from a BigAdmin article "Understanding Th

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread Christine Tran
Hi David, Umm ... sorry, perhaps this is outdated, my notes have a section cut&pasted from a BigAdmin article "Understanding The Basics About Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 OS" dated 8/05. It says that for 3/05, standard upgrade and LU don't know about non-global zones. Specifically:

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread David . Comay
Christine, LU doesn't work for boxes with zones yet, afaik. zonepath on vxvm volumes won't work for upgrade from 3/05 (granted, upgrade from 3/05 with zones isn't supported anyway). I have no reason to think this would work with 1/06 Just to clarify that upgrade from 3/05 when zones are pre

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread Christine Tran
LU doesn't work for boxes with zones yet, afaik. zonepath on vxvm volumes won't work for upgrade from 3/05 (granted, upgrade from 3/05 with zones isn't supported anyway). I have no reason to think this would work with 1/06 either, vxconfigd has to run in order to present the volumes to the OS

Re: [zones-discuss] zones, upgrades, and vxvm

2006-06-19 Thread Jeff Victor
Unfortunately, at this time LU will not work on a system that has zones. Sun is working on a plan to remove this restriction. William D. Hathaway wrote: Hi, A co-worker recently posted this question: "Does anyone know if you can put the zone root's on a Veritas Volume Manager volume and then ha