When you install the new solaris 11 x86 box in your production environment or in lab environment under vmware workstation, you would not find the gui desktop as you would have got for connecting solaris 10 x86 server. See the zpool1m man page for information about redundancy types. If youre looking for sun solaris administration interview questions for experienced or freshers, you are at right place. In level 0, data is split across drives, resulting in higher data throughput. This software is licensed for use only in conjunction with intel. Now for step 4 attach the primary disk devices to the raid device. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data deduplication, raid and data encryption. This example specifies a raid configuration using the two disks c0t0d0 and c0t1d0. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system home menu. Synology diskstation ds, buffalo terastation, are examples. This document describes how to setup a software raid 1 on a solaris 10 machine. I am planning to construct one raid1 mirror with zfs just like previous solaris 10 x86 installation.
With regards mohan this email and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain confidential and. Even though zfs, the zetabyte file system made its appearance during the life of solaris 10. After using lots of installation media of solaris 11, i didnt find the options to create raid 1 mirror on zfs root partition pool. Once that is done tell solaris what to use for the root device the next time you boot. Install the solaris 11 operating environment with live media or text interactive installers install, manage, and update software with the image packaging system and ips repositories understand, customize, and troubleshoot sparc and x86 boot processes from system powerup to loading the os including coverage of ilom, openboot, and grub 2. Should i use usb drive for solaris 11 express server fault. A raid can be deployed using both software and hardware.
A raidz configuration maximizes disk space and generally performs well when data is written and read in large chunks 128k or more. In addition to a mirrored storage pool configuration, zfs provides a raidz configuration with either single, double, or tripleparity fault tolerance. The solaris volume manager software uses logical volumes sets of disk slices, to implement raid 0, raid 1, and raid 5. This section describes how to reenable a hardware raid volume after replacing the cpu memory unit lower of the sparc m122m122sm104m104s or the. There are lot of opportunities from many reputed companies in the world. Oracle solaris 11 1111 can be installed in a number of different ways. A raidz configuration with n disks of size x with p parity disks can hold approximately npx bytes and can withstand p devices failing before data integrity is compromised.
The grubbased installation program of the solaris 10 106 software and subsequent releases no longer. The m series does not support hardware raid, but only software, and this. It will extend their skills beyond basic administration tasks. The oracle solaris scalable processor architecture sparc platform hosting service is a cdt managed service. In general, a systems zfs root pool is created when the system is installed. Sparc 121 the openboot environment 124 booting a sparc system 155. This manifest is similar to the manifest for a mirrored configuration as shown in example 103. Software raid is used exclusively in large systems mainframes, solaris risc, itanium, san systems found in enterprise computing. The solaris management console smc comes with the solaris 9 distribution, and. The solaris 11 does not come bundled with the desktop gui package by default, so you will have to install the desktop gui. Solaris volume manager software features enhance storage management capabilities beyond what is handled by intelligent storage arrays with hardware raid. Configure a hardware raid volume for the solaris os. Following on to last weeks release of oracle solaris 11. Zfs integrates volume management, provides high levels of data integrity through checksumming and copyonwrite operations, and includes a wide variety of data services such as raid protection, deduplication, and data encryption.
Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Hi all, how do i configure software raid0, 1,5 levels in sun sparc solaris 8. Software that needs to work on both oracle solaris 11. Solaris volume manager is a software package for creating, modifying and controlling raid0. How to choose the configuration of the system disk for solaris 10 sparc. For detailed information about complex solaris volume manager software and. It came with 2 disks but only one disk is being used at present. I have found some info on how to mirror the 250gb drives but i havent been able to find very detailed on how to setup the raid 5.
You may not copy, modify, rent, sell, distribute or transfer any part. After using lots of installation media of solaris 11, i didnt find the options to create raid1 mirror on zfs root partition pool. Configure a hardware raid volume for the solaris os sun. The other day i had a task to install a new m4000 server which come with two 300g hdd. Solaris uses service management facility for services. Setting up software raid in solaris 10 we have a new solaris 10 server sun fire v240, that we needed for a fiber equipment nms. Oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. Oracle solaris certification and support hewlett packard.
But the real question is whether you should use a hardware raid solution or a software raid solution. Managing and updating software with ips 63 understanding ips 64 installing and managing packages 70 bes 93 update the os 109 summary 120 chapter 3. System cpu utilization at 35,000 io per second is only 14% for solaris volume manager software and 15% for veritas. If you want availability then zfs is a better option, hardly any hw raid solution checks both mirrors when reading let alone adds checksums to written data. Planning to use solaris 11 on the t2000 10 on the netra, and i want to use it to learn about setting up zones and everything else i can about 11 my background is more linuxxbsd.
If you are creating a second root pool or recreating a root pool, use syntax similar to the following. Create root pools with whole disks by using the d identifier. Sparc t41solaris 11add 2 new hdds in raid 0 configuration. As everyone know by default just 1 drive is in use and is having 2 partitions in use. A guide for system administrators mark brown chuck davis william dy paul ionescu jeff richardson kurt taylor robbie williamson a comprehensive reference for a quick transition presents a taskbased grouping of differences between the operating system environments additional content about how to optimize linux on ibm.
In all other cases, i believe that the advantages of zfs outweigh those of hw raid. For a multiuser timesharing server shutdown, find out if any users are logged in to the system. There are 2 hdds in the system now in hdd0 and hdd4 slots, and now we would like to add another two in raid 0 configuration striped for better performance. Ive just been given the assignment of installing an application cisco transport manager on a t5120 sparc with 2 300 gigabyte drives.
This will make it easier than ever to use the latest solaris version in oci. This service provides customers with standardized oracle sparc server hardware, oracle solaris operating system configurations, and the deployment, management, and administration of oracle solaris software applications. Figure 1 solaris volume manager software and vxvm performance with 8kbyte io. On a side note, if youre using software raid its about a million times easier to setup a zfs pool, if you have solaris 10 1106 or later installed. Restoring or clearing a raid controller configuration. Each service has an identifier called an fmri, that looks like. This post is an attempt to explain how raid5 recovers data by using elementary school math. It is used to improve disk io performance and reliability of your server or workstation. Raidz storage pool configuration managing zfs file. Zfs is scalable, and includes extensive protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copyonwrite clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, raidz.
Now solaris volume manager software is integrated with the solaris operating environment solaris. The system its working fine for 4 hour but after that the machine it is getting slow because the partition var c0t0d0s1 it get to 80 % to 90 % of the capacity. Removing a disk from a raidz or changing raidz level is the trouble, complex and time critical operation nobody wants to implement. A redundant array of inexpensive disks raid allows high levels of storage reliability. Raid level 0 is not redundant, hence does not truly fit the raid acronym. Solaris volume manager software and veritas performance are nearly the same. Initially deployed in oracle solaris 10, oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system in oracle solaris 11, and it is required to perform software maintenance and safe upgrades. Boot and shutdown procedures for sparc and x86based systems 121 the boot process. We have lvm also in linux to configure mirrored volumes but software raid recovery is much easier in disk failures compare to linux lvm. How to shut down a system by using the shutdown command become the root role.
Using raidconfig to configure raid oracle server cli. This was in contrast to the previous concept of highly reliable mainframe disk drives referred to as single. Example 112 creating a twoway mirror without resynchronization. The solaris volume manager administration guide provides instructions on using. Zfs equally as mobile between solaris, opensolaris, freebsd, osx, and linux under fuse. I am planning to construct one raid 1 mirror with zfs just like previous solaris 10 x86 installation.
Veritas volume manager at the library of congress web archives archived 20011116. I installed a ufs filesystem solaris 10 update 10 and updated it with a fixpack and thought i was through, however the application, apart from the root, usr, swap and the partition representing the disk, wants 10 additional partitions a. One difference between the two manifests is that the value of the redundancy attribute is raidz instead of mirror. I have a system sun solaris 8 installed on a sun ultra with to 36gb, c0t0d0 for the operative system and c0t1d0 as database. Adding two physical drives adds a big of complexity. The best sun solaris administration interview questions. At the heart of the filesystem are zfs pools which group disks.
Because this box have many resources in terms of cpu and memory we well use solaris. Software raid is one of the greatest feature in linux to protect the data from disk failure. The devinit revert tag in the pkg command is no longer available. Raid redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both. I am installing the new solaris 11 on my dell tower desktop workstation with two 3tb sata hard drives. I have seen some of the environments are configured with software raid and lvm volume groups are built using raid devices. Would the software array with zfs come anywhere close to a hw raid 10 on the t2000.
Smbs using nas devices for backup and restore purposes will find many softwareraid based options. Oracle offers a live usb image with the distro for solaris 11 express. Raidz storage pools can be created with 3 parity strategies, where parity equals 1 raidz, 2 raidz2, or 3 raidz3. I have managed to get the server is up and running solaris was preinstalled, and software works on it. Disk mirroring using solaris disk manager raid 1 volumes. Solaris 11 creating and maintaining zfs pools the urban. This leaves plenty of cpu resources to achieve good application performance. On native platforms not linux solaris is faster that ntfs. I would be using the internal os usb port on the server.
According to research sun solaris has a market share of about 3. We have just received a sun ultra 40 box that has 6 drives 2x250gb and 4x500gb i m trying to setup a software raid 5 on the 500gb drives with one spare and also mirror the 250gb drives. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. Raidz is the worlds first softwareonly solution to the raid5 write hole. Understanding the internal will help you understand why the raid layout with a lot of drives would take longer to recover data. Creating a raid1 volume solaris volume manager administration. Removing a whole vdev or adding a disk to a vdev is less complicated and critical. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
Software raid 10 in solaris 11, multipath, and a few. Zfs is also much faster at raidz that windows is at software raid5. Zfs is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by sun microsystems. Software raid in solaris 10 ars technica openforum. Basic operations for oracle solaris 11 administration. The oracle solaris 10 606 release corrects this issue. This solaris 11 system administration part ii course is aimed at it staff responsible for administering a networked server in a local area network,running the oracle solaris operating environment. Is that not some indication that its useful or is a live usb only a testing method.
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