Entries tagged with 'upgrade'

I think one of the best features of Solaris is the Live Upgrade mechanism. This really useful feature can be used for upgrading and patching with very little impact on the server. This means you can patch or upgrade your production system, whilst it’s still in production, and only schedule a short outage [...]

The pkg repositories have now been updated to included the 2009.06 pkgs (What’s New preso - PDF). There is no need to perform a clean install, you can just use the Update Manager GUI to update your OpenSolaris 2008.11 release to 2009.06.
There is one teeny weeny issue that you may encounter - [...]

The latest stable build of Habari was pushed out the doors last night and is now available for download.
There have quite a significant number of changes and improvements on the previous stable release (0.5.2) which are documented as follows in the release notes:

If you’re eager to get your hands on OpenSolaris 2008.11, then you can get testing with the release candidate. It’s been decided/announced that snv_101a will be the release candidate for 2008.11, and as is common the announcement includes details on how you can update and get testing now.
Please note, this release has a minimum [...]

The OpenSolaris development package repository has been updated to reflect the changes in snv_97 including major fixes to the Caiman “Slim Install” and the Image Packaging System (IPS).
Time to get updating if you’re “living on the edge” of the OpenSolaris world. Update instructions are now available online and not just within the announcement emails, but [...]

My little Ultra 20 under my desk runs with two boot environments and flip-flop between them as I upgrade using Live Upgrade. The basic procedure is: rename the old inactive BE (lurename), update it with the contents of the currently running BE (lumake), upgrade it to the latest and greatest (luupgrade), activate it (luactivate) [...]

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008:

Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade.
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems [...]

Links of interest for 3 August 2007:

HOWTO: Move a Solaris Containers How To Guides - Details how to move a container from one host to another using functionality already in Solaris Express and due in Solaris 10.
HOWTO: Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers - A basic guide that demonstrates the use of ZFS in conjunction [...]