Solaris 10 patching using live upgrade with VxVM

UNIX Solaris
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Hello,

I was assigned some Solaris machines and need to patch them to N-1, where N is the latest OS realease, which means, upgrade till one version before the latest one.

I do not now a lot about Solaris. What I only know is that need to make use of live upgrade and be careful with VxVM running on it.

Any advice will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Start with reading the documentation.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/index.html

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Thank you DukeNuke2! Will do my homework religiously! :smiley:

I have a question, what does the following name convention means and were could I find the list of them:

Solaris 10 10/09 u08
Solaris 10 9/10 u09
Solaris 10 8/11 u10
Solaris 10 1/13 u11

This is because I need to update to N-1 and need to obtain the files for it.

Thanks for your help!

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Read here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris\_(operating\_system)\#Version_history

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Thank you DukeNuke2!

After reading that article, found that I need to update to

Solaris 10 8/11 ("U10")

I have got the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library and the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning

Will continue working from here.

One question:

There is Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 installed to manage the SAP volumes. I was provided a license key to install. What is the best approach to update the Solaris OS:

  1. Update Veritas first
  2. Update Solaris OS, carefully following the VxVM special steps