This article describes some of the new features for basic oracle solaris 11. Preface testing various different versions of operating systems is easy these days thanks to virtualization. The following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11. Solaris elastic virtual switch evs can be used to manage vxlan deployment automatically in a cloud environment this will be the subject of a future discussion. Bigadmin submitted tech tip system log rotation utilizing logadm for solaris 9, solaris 10 by kristopher march today, most system administrators are looking for ways to maximize their time at work and are always finding new and efficient ways of carrying out their daily tasks. For example, any changes made through the stmfadm command are automatically updated in both areas. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. The telltale sign is when you try to issue an itadm command as described below it cannot find the command.
Comstar uses smf service repository to store its configuration and logical unit mapping. Where are x11 libs after a solaris 11 fresh install data. Not able to find samba client service in solaris 10. If you have a solaris 10 system, the samba software is likely. That last number in the fun facts is interesting because that number is a small subset of applications that will run on oracle solaris 11. You can look for solaris 11 chat sheet here which will give you solaris 11 general administration. Alternatively, members can be specified using their scsi name string identifiers. Read the license agreement and click the accept button. May 18, 2012 i recently needed to download the solaris 11 repository image for seeding a new auto install server. The builtin solaris tool, logadm, is one way to do so. One thing i noted is that the iscsi target service does not appear to be loaded by default in oracles solaris 11 express. This article describes how to use comstar to provide local iscsi storage for any service that runs in windows, linux, or mac os.
Differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 for system administrators. Security, network, and provisioning advances, in addition to significant new performance features, make an already great release even better. How to delegate smf management to a nonroot user in solaris. We have been able to provision fibre channel storage from our zfs file systems which give us the benefit of data integrity, deduplication, performance through use of the arc, l2arc, and zil as needed. So, heres accurate information on how to set up a solaris 11 machine or zone as a nis client. Weve been designing the os for for more than two decades, always ensuring that weve engineered in features to meet. The administrator configures the guest domain template name, ip address, etc. We then i wont be talking much but lets start working. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek. Describes the important installation issues, update issues, and runtime issues that you might need to consider before installing or running the oracle solaris 11. If in manual configuration mode use new ipadm and dladm commands.
It doesnt include applications that will run on oracle solaris 11 that were designed and build. Oracle solaris 10 811 oracle solaris 11 oracle solaris 11 benefits. Nov 10, 2011 oracle solaris 11 1111 can be installed in a number of different ways you can download oracle solaris11 from oracle download site to multiple iso image in multiple installation way like for x86 or sparc and automated installation and live media you can choose what your request link. One will often times encounter problems that they may not have the answer to.
The comstar target mode framework runs as the stmf service. Comstars target mode framework runs as stmf in smf service. I do a nat using ipfilter and all was working good, until i by nilton on this entry. Oracle solaris make compliance reporting dramatically simpler even at cloud scale with integrated multinode compliance reporting. The field of computers is very vast and can somtimes be extremely challenging, but also very rewarding. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to. Configuring iscsi devices with comstar oracle solaris. Since oracle solaris 11 there is a command to manage security extensions in solaris. Oracle 1z0821 oracle solaris 11 system administrator. Oracle solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. With help of infiniband interface, i am sure we can definitely match the fc san performance on iscsi devices.
Modified few questions, fixed few spelling mistakes and types. In our environment zfs has become a critical component of our storage infrastructure. Oracle 1z0821 oracle solaris 11 system administration excellent questions, i pass with 90% with these questions. Downloading the image file installing and configuring. When you look at it that looks a little bit cryptic at first. In solaris 11 configuring network is not editing few files, unlike in most other operating systems. Ipmp basicsconfiguring an ipmp group on solaris 11.
Use the following procedure to download a single image file that provides both the oracle solaris os and openstack. Configuration and tuning the oltpbenchmark workload on. Oracle solaris 11 system administration gratis exam. Package versioning in oracle solaris 11 solaris 11 packages contain a version string. On the motherboard manufacturer website, download the update archive in the case of. Jan 08, 2016 recently i had to test a few things on solaris 11 and wondered how well it works virtualized with kvm. Create a new lun from the zfs volume using stmfadm. I have changed answers of q2, q11, q31, q44, q59 and q87. Part 1 of a series that describes the key features of zfs in oracle solaris 11. An attempt will be made to activate a hot spare if available. Since the four ports are sun gigaswift legacy, i cannot utilize dladm, so i downloaded.
You need an iso download it or build it using distribution constructor 1. Configuring network for solaris 11 in virtual box notebook. As you know iscsi is very cheap compare to our traditional san environment. How to enable solaris multipathing mpxio or stms for emc symmetrix luns. So you want to setup solaris 11 as an iscsi target and the iscsi initiator being. You could use solaris 11 with comstar to provide iscsi, fc, fcoe or srp. Increasing the size of a vdisk in ldom with backend device as zfs volume how to change timezone for oracle grid infrastructure.
If in automatic configuration mode, use netcfg network virtualization adds many new capabilities and continuing to overload ifconfig is the wrong management approach limited virtualization. Sep 22, 2016 so here i will note down a few things which i believe might be useful when configuring network for solaris 11 in virtual box. Solaris 11 express licencing terms changed since the acquisition of sun. If you need to share files between a windows and a unix or linux system, you can use samba, which is free software that implements the same networking protocol that microsoft windows use to share files between systems. Migratory solaris kernel zones oracle jeff victors blog. Aug 26, 2014 the example below uses three computers. Transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system you. I found this post on the grey blog, which is a good starting point. Using comstar and zfs to configure a virtualized storage. The following is a quick primer on administering vxlan in solaris 11. Oracle 1z0821 oracle solaris 11 system administration. If you are more comfortable using samba and do not need the added performance and features that the solaris smb solution gives you then no problem in using samba, even though strictly speaking, if the purpose is file sharing using smb, you no longer need samba as of solaris 11.
First make sure you have the repo downloaded and setup your local ips repo. You can easily setup comstar iscsi target and make the volume available over the network. Oracle solaris 11 express image packaging system guide, managing package publishers question 11 alice is a user account used by alice on a solaris 11 system. Zfs is part of the oracle solaris 11 operating system, but there are other. This guest domain can be installed on any system running oracle vm server for sparc 3. To remove the two targets above using their scsi name string identifiers, the commands would be. Oracle solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. Standard edition, standard edition one, and enterprise edition. Solaris 11 has integrated with comstar to configure iscsi devices. Oracle solaris comstar introduce and configuration ppt.
The following illustrates how vxlans are created on solaris. Getting gdm to work on text solaris 11 express 2010. More than just an operating system, oracle solaris 11. Booting into single user mode from dvd has not changed much in solaris 11 x86x64. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. To restart ssh in solaris you can use the svcs command to view the current status of the service. If you dont already have it on your system, you can download it from samba opening windows to a wider world. Here we will see how to configure solaris 11 as iscsi storage server and creating new iscsi targets for network access. The first to appear was the adress space layout randomization and it was the only one. Solaris specialists blog everything about solaris page 16.
Oracle provides a wget script for downloading their patches, however oracles otn doesnt allow you to login via wgetcurl, which means that oracle provided scripts are of no use. Hiya, i have the notes i used to build my solaris 11 express nas box, but some of the commandsservices seem to be missing in solaris 11 full. To prepare for either enabling or disabling mpxio on a specific drive port, specify ls l devcfg on the command line. Additionally the real benefit to zfs is our storage can run on commodity hardware which reduces the tco. Scsi is very cheap compared to our traditional san environment. Nov 12, 20 solaris 11 has integrated with comstar to configure iscsi devices. In an internet browser, go to the unified archives download page.
Oracle solaris 11 oracle technology network oracle. If not you can visit my blog that explains ho to do that. In the end the article, we also how to add the iscsi targets in solaris 11 servers iscsi initiator. New in the solaris 9 operating system, logadm is found in. A beginners guide to service management facility smf in solaris. May 06, 2012 virtualbox in oracle solaris 11 zones vboxzone02 vboxzone01 solaris 11 virtualbox virtualbox. Jan 23, 2015 solaris 11 has integrated with comstar to configure iscsi devices.
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