On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Mike Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I have been tasked with finding a patch strategy for all Solaris servers. The > good majority of these servers are running Solaris 10U2 with non-global > zones; roughly totaling 100 servers. Note: These servers were Live Upgraded > from Solaris 9. From the research I have done, the Live Upgrade process will > not work unless it is running S10U4 (08/07). I am looking for suggestions on > how to do this. I am unable to purchase any solution that SUN offers, > although I would love to. Has anyone used the LU process or know of another > way to accomplish this? > > Also, has anyone run through the LU process to upgrade S10u2 to S10u4?
As long as you've gone through the prerequisite patch list then I can't see any particular problems. I must confess, though, that I don't do any significant patching of systems with zones, and haven't tried LU on a zoned system. I always migrate the zones to different servers so that I have a bare system to do maintenance on. I wonder whether I'm just different here, or whether people do patch or upgrade systems with zones intact, and whether it's really a good idea? (And by migrate, we have our own zone installation scripts. So we don't move a whole zone, we simply shut it down, create a new one elsewhere, and zfs send the zones dedicated data across before starting it up. We're not interested in moving any of the OS components of the zone - that's just wasted effort.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
