January 31, 2015

Solaris 10: How to upgrade from u3 to u11 and how to migrate UFS root filesystem to ZFS filesystem on x86 platform

Posted in Solaris tagged live upgrade, lu, lucreate, lumount, lustart, luumount, luupgrade, patchset, ufs, ufs to zfs, zfs at 5:04 pm by alessiodini

In these days I’m doing a lot of upgrade tasks on Solaris hosts.
Solaris upgrade envolves Veritas upgrade too, and it’s funny 🙂

Recently I wrote a procedure where I upgrade a Solaris 10u3 to Solaris 10u11 with Live Upgrade on x86 platform.
At same time I changed the root filesystem, migrating it from UFS to ZFS. It was a good “technology jump” 🙂
The procedure is here. I want to write one more for SPARC platform.
For any question or procedure improvement just let me know ! 🙂

Alessio.

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