02-11-2018
Just a small disclaimer, i never worked with solaris 10 branded zones.
But, since it's a whole root zone, upgrade of solaris 11 global zone should have minimal to no effect to such zones.
Actually, no patching should occur for solaris10 zone.
So if the solaris 11 release you are patching support solaris10 branded zones, you should be fine.
I would go with normal attach with using preview switch first -n and examine the output.
If everything goes well in preview, run the normal attach.
Also, Solaris 11 system when doing major patching will create a backup boot environment automatically, followed by patching and activation of patched environment.
After the patching finishes, a reboot should suffice.
pkg subsystem will write that on the console after patching, and you can confirm the same by issuing beadm list after patching.
Depending on the importance of the system in the zone, backup(s) should be made.
This is done using zfs archives or zoneadm command subswitches and, of course, exporting the text configuration of zone using zonecfg.
Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
brands
brands(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros brands(5)
NAME
brands - alternate operating environments for non-global zones
DESCRIPTION
The branded zone (BrandZ) framework extends the Solaris Zones infrastructure described in zones(5) to include the creation of brands, which
provide non-global zones that contain non-native operating environments.
The term "brand" can refer to a wide range of operating environments. All brand management is performed as extensions to the current zones
structure.
Every zone is configured with an associated brand. The brand type is used to determine which scripts are executed when a zone is installed
and booted. In addition, a zone's brand is used to properly identify the correct application type at application launch time. The default
is the native brand.
A branded zone will support exactly one brand of non-native binary, which means that a branded zone provides a single operating environ-
ment. Once a zone has been assigned a brand, that brand cannot be changed or removed.
BrandZ extends the zones tools in the following ways:
o A brand is an attribute of a zone, set at zone create time.
o The zonecfg tool (see zonecfg(1M)) is used to set a zone's brand type and configure the zone.
o The zoneadm tool (see zoneadm(1M)) is used to report a zone's brand type and administer the zone.
Device Support
The devices supported by each zone are documented in the man pages and other documentation for that brand. The zones infrastructure detects
any attempt to add an unsupported device and issues a warning to the administrator. If the administrator chooses to add an unsupported
device despite that warning, that device might or might not work as expected. The configuration will be untested and unsupported.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWzoneu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mdb(1), zlogin(1), zonename(1), dtrace(1M), in.rlogind(1M), sshd(1M), zoneadm(1M), zonecfg(1M), kill(2), priocntl(2), getzoneid(3C),
ucred_get(3C), getzoneid(3C), proc(4), attributes(5), lx(5), native(5), privileges(5), zones(5), lx_systrace(7D), crgetzoneid(9F)
SunOS 5.11 13 Feb 2009 brands(5)