Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and. The zones parallel patching enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities increases the patching tools performance on systems with multiple zones by allowing parallel patching of the nonglobal zones. Patching the global zone patches all the zones as well. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. If you are doing patch upgrade you need make sure that the repository is accessible inside the zone as well. Hi gurus i am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 sol10 u11 to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same i should follow. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. If your global zones root filesystem is zfs,then you have to choose live upgrade in order to perform os patching.
Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. How to configure solaris 10 zones and assign resources. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones.
Patching procedure in solaris 10 with sun cluster having. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. How to upgrade your solaris zones with zoneadm detach. I m not even sure if this is an issue but before i dig deeper i wanted to check if it really is one. You cant do any fancy virtual switching with zones. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. Answer zones are a feature new in solaris 10, and provide a useful mechanism to create a solaris environment for testing, and containment apache server, etc.
However i have bunch of zones in my update 9 install. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. First alternative solaris 10 zone configuration and. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function. Jun 19, 2009 the zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Solaris zones enables a software partitioning of solaris 10 os to support multiple independent, secure os environments to run in the same os.
The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Yes, can be applied to multiple zones in parallel no patching pkg. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. It is present in illumos formerly opensolaris distributions, such as openindiana, smartos and omnios, as well as. How can i set up and configure a zone under solaris 10. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Zones are really a more advanced version of a chroot environment. Quick start guide time machine for solaris 9 branded zones.
Lets take a look at how this all works in solaris 10. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Simply install this patch, set the maximum number of nonglobal zones to be patched in parallel in the config file etcpatchnf, and away you go. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Since i dont have access to the patch bundles at all, i decided to do a scratch install. Solaris containers including solaris zones is an implementation of operating systemlevel virtualization technology for x86 and sparc systems, first released publicly in february 2004 in build 51 beta of solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of solaris 10, 2005. How can i set up and configure a solaris 8 zone under solaris 10. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities and is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. Simply install this patch, set the maximum number of nonglobal zones to be patched in parallel in the config file etc patch nf, and away you go.
Solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Optional, for releases prior to solaris 10 10 09 only download patch 11925466 sparc or 11925566 x86. How to configure solaris 10 zones and assign resources the. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. And by separation it keeps things a bit more secure. The book covers the topics solaris resource management, solaris zones, and lx branded zones. How to give special privileges to some specific zones. Aug 23, 2017 parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and.
So if you have 3 zones and it takes 1 minute to apply a patch on global zone then it will take another 1 minute each to apply on other 3 zones. First introduced in oracle solaris 10, zones are builtin, lightweight virtual. Sep 20, 2012 in unix system administration, we may need to perform os patching often. How to patch the solaris global zone with vxfs root local zones. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function fujitsu global. Dec 15, 20 we have had zones as a form of virtualization in solaris since solaris 10, with the release of solaris 11 zones take a massive leap forward in the way they use resources, or dont use, compared with the architecture in solaris 10. Parallel become superuser, or assume the primary administrator role. A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or interacting with the rest of the system. I have a sun solaris server running solaris 10 with 2 nonglobal zones on it. So prior to os patching we need to make sure,you have the valid backout plan. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. Upgrading with nonglobal zones oracle solaris 10 1. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Set the number of nonglobal zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etcpatchnf.
Find answers to solaris zone patching question from the expert community at experts exchange. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Checking package information on a solaris system with zones. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Which should be patched first to avoid any crash in case, first local zones followed by global solaris 10 or vice versa. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is.
Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. This is available for use on all solaris 10 systems. With solaris 11, only zfs is supported as zone root file system. The zones parallel patching enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch.
What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. The impact of a zone on machine performance is minimal. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on your oracle solaris 10 system. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently. No additional hardware is required for a zone, just some disk space. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently both are present on sol1 node. Parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime.
Solaris 10 9 10 u9 added physical to zone migration, zfs triple parity raidz and oracle solaris auto registration. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle community. Zones are a feature new in solaris 10, and provide a useful mechanism to create a solaris environment for testing, and containment apache server, etc. Certain administrative functions can only be performed from the global zone, such as editing the zone configuration. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by parallel. Experimenting with smf to run parallel sshd service on different port. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. Solaris zone patching question solutions experts exchange. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Applying patches to non global zone only logiqwest.
Zones provides a means of virtualizing operating system services, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system. The global zone handles all the scheduling for the zones, the ip stack, etc. The alreadyrunning os is the global zone, and any zones you add are nonglobal. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones by ramdev published october 26, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. If you had access to the patch bundles, it would be really easy to upgrade the system to update 10 with live upgrade. Starting with the solaris 10 1009 release, zones parallel patching enhances the standard oracle solaris 10 patch utilities. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone.
Jul 05, 2007 this article explains how airlock uses solaris 10 zones for more security, and their implications on network configuration one of the major changes from airlock 3. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. Creating kernel zones in solaris 11 tech support says.
In solaris 10 got an interesting feature to enable ssl for any service by adding a. Zones are widely used in production environments as it is easy to setup and doesnt require any special hardware like ldoms does. Below displays the resulting configuration info for the zones created by the previous commands. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Aug 15, 2011 bigadmin solaris containers zones zones parallel patching. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones 807567 may 16, 2007 4. Solaris containersresource management and solaris zones step.
You do not need to detach the zone to make the parent group to failover across nodes when your zone is configured in a parallel service group. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. This paper is specific to time machine for use solaris 9 branded zone on solaris 10 sparc platform. So with this in mind, i was considering to update my solaris 10 u9 to solaris 10 u10. Functionality status up to solaris 10 1009 and opensolaris 2009. Each environment has separate process space, resource allocation and users. When creating a zone in oracle solaris 11 the network interface is configured as a default so the command above right is less complex and only two elements are required to create a basic oracle solaris 11 zone. Make patchadd modify packages in the current zone only. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone. Among the trove is a patch for cve20173622, a local privilege escalation hole in the common desktop environment on solaris 10 that is. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. From time to time you have to update or patch your system. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see using.
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