If I were you... since you are upgrading from 9 to 10... I would definitely go with Live Upgrade.
Basically you can split the mirror, Live Upgrade your system from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 on the inactive leg. Boot to the new environment and if something goes wrong the back out plan is really fast and straight forward.
I haven't followed that process but it looks good.
The good thing about LU is that the downtime is minimal, and you still preserve the old OS untouched...
Still you will need a console connection and an installation CD in case you run into problems.
Another good Idea would be to replicate the environment on a box, if it local much better, try and document the procedure and then go for the production box, but I know that that sometimes is asking too much...
Good Luck!
Juan
Hi,
i was thinking about the live upgrade as the downtime will be minimal. Could you let me know if below steps are right?
Outputs of metastat and metadb. Now the plan is to split the submirrors ie here d20 and upgrade it as below.
Code:
bash-2.05# metadb flags first blk block count a m p luo 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 a p luo 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 a p luo 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 a p luo 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 a p luo 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 a p luo 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 a p luo 16 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 a p luo 8208 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 a p luo 16400 8192 /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7
Now we check which boot environment is active and once we get solaris 10 that is active we remove the older version and clear the d0 to release the submirror (d10)from it and attach it to the new mirror (d50) and resync with new submirror with old one under d50 (d20) which has solaris 10.
Code:
#lustatus (just to check, if new BE is active)#ludelete sol9#metaclear d0#metattach d50 d10
Could you let me know if iam missing anymore step after these things done and any information about lucreate about using the submirror name (d20) or complete disk location (dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0) which is advisable of them?
Thanks a lot for your suggestions
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
Once you are connected to the console you can login as normal. Issue a
Code:
init 0
to take the system down (in an orderly way). This will take you to the "ok" prompt.
At the ok prompt (ensuring the cdrom is in the drive) type:
This will take you into the install routine.
My experience is that an upgrade will take circa 1 hour to 90 minutes tops.
Any other opinions out there??
Hi, I was thinking about live upgrade as it has minimal downtime as i have mentioned in previous post.
could you let me know if i am missing anything in there and once again thanks for your support.
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