Well, its a little known fact, but you can, it is excellent potential for the use of solaris 10 or opensolaris on embedded devices or even in safety devices such as firewalls. Software raid is one of the greatest feature in linux to protect the data from disk failure. Exporting a pool, writes all the unwritten data to pool and remove all the information of the pool from the source system. Sannas appliance moved one step forward and made any system can be act as virtual sannas box. Disk mirroring using solaris disk manager raid 1 volumes. Read overview of replacing and enabling components in raid 1 and raid 5 volumes and background information for raid 1 volumes. Just to note up front i used identical maxtor 80gb drives for this raid setup. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog.
Only the single slice can be included in the raid0 volume. This chapter explains how to perform solaris volume manager tasks related to raid 1 volumes. The grub2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails no matter which one. We dont have a solaris support contract other than the hardware warranty. This guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an already running centos 5. Jump start a raid configuration solaris10 yuvalinux. Storage virtualization brought many advanced features to sannas world. Software raid on top of hardware raid unix and linux forums. As we all are know that raid 1 is also known as disk mirroring. Configure a hardware raid volume for the solaris os. For an example using openfiler, you can provision luns and assign to any server using iscis protocol. One great thing about solaris x86 and sparc is that some really cool disk management software is built right in, and its called svm, or solaris volume manager.
From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties and click. This guide explains how to set up software raid1 on an already running ubuntu 10. 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. I have also tested this method on solaris 8 and the process. I used solaris 10 0606, this short howto for the raid information with quite a few modifications for solaris 10, and lots of man page reading. A raid can be deployed using both software and hardware. To start with here is what i laid out my filesystem to be when i initially installed solaris 10. Create a new raid0 volume on the slice from the previous step by using one of the following methods.
The solaris volume manager administration guide provides instructions on using solaris volume. For example, the solaris 10 305 release is the first marketing release for the solaris 10 release. Creating raid5 volumes solaris volume manager administration. Currently, the solaris operating system is shipped with a plugin for the mpt driver. Device start block dbase state reloc hot spare c0t0d0s5 0 no okay yes d404. This book describes how to create the files and directories necessary to perform an unattended jumpstart installation. Creating a raid1 volume solaris volume manager administration.
To import a pool you must explicitly export a pool first from the source system. While every aspect of the system can be managed through a shell, webmin can save you time in certain areas. We have a new solaris 10 server sun fire v240, that we needed for a fiber equipment nms. It is used to improve disk io performance and reliability of your server or workstation. The grub bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails no matter which one. How to install the wanboot program on the wan boot server. Software raid in solaris 10 ars technica openforum. The sun documentation states that you can either use the openboot promp utility called fcode or you can use software via the solaris os. Setting up raid 5 software on solaris 10 in sunfire v250, having 6 hard disk. It has 8 disks and i would like to configure raid1 on the disks. Jumpstart solaris 10 sparc pdf oracle solaris 10 1 installation guide. The sun fire v215 and v245 servers support raid 0 and raid 1 configurations.
We need to setup software raid before the company that supports the fiber nms, will support it. After a creating a raid volume using raidctl, use format1m to configure and label the volume before attempting to use it in the solaris operating system start the format utility. Many people have heard of and have used ram disk images under linux, but did you know you can do the same thing with solaris 10. Configuring boot disks with solaris volume manager software october 2002. But the real question is whether you should use a hardware raid solution or a software raid solution. The programs were ported to all versions of solaris from 2. You should use the solaris os raidctl1m command to configure the volumes with solaris 10 807 os release, the raidctl1m command has been updated. How to change scsi disk in raid 5 on solaris 10 sparc user4994457 may, 2010 10.
Solaris 10 ram disk image creation many people have heard of ram and disk images used in linux, but did you know you can do the same with solaris 10. The set of patches is applicable to all of these solaris 10 releases. The dependency on a software driver is due to the design of raidctl. Upgrading sendmail to postfix on solaris oracle solaris blog. Chapter 10 raid 1 mirror volumes tasks solaris volume.
Raid1 volume in solaris can be treated using two methods. Howto install redhat package with yum command without rhn february 26, 2014 mpt firmware fault, code 0800 september 17, 20 solaris 11 zfs root recovery may 14, 20. How to set up software raid1 on a running system incl. Networkbased installations oracle solaris 10 sparc. Armed with the mighty pkgget tool, this is definitely one of the easiest and quicked ways to get new software installed without having to compile anything to meet dependencies. For a long time, ive been thinking about switching to raid 10 on a few servers. 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. What follows are some notes on a sample configuration setting up raid and zfs on a pair of 80gb disks. This article is about upgrading ancient sendmail email server software with postfix.
A redundant array of independent drives or disks, also known as redundant array of inexpensive drives or disks raid is an term for data storage schemes that divide andor replicate data among multiple hard drives. Which one is recommended for file server and database server. Scopeforemost describe how to do this on solaris 10 606. When you create raid1 volumes with raid0 volumes singleslice concatenations, solaris volume manager duplicates data on the raid0 submirrors and treats the submirrors as one volume. Jump start a raid configuration solaris 10contents introduction 1. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Im wanting to list all installed software on a solaris 10 system, have tried pkginfo but that just shows whats bundled with solaris.
The servers im using are hp proliant ml115 very good value. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties and click the components tab. It is provided as a standard package with solaris 10, and a optional addon to clarkconnect. However, you can make a slice in a zfs partition an mirror that i wouldnt recommend using svm to mirror on top of zfs. If you can afford it i would recomend using identically sized drives. I saw a suggestion elsewhere regarding viewing the product registry on solaris if anyone knows how to.
I have seen some of the environments are configured with software raid and lvm volume groups are built using raid devices. The part i missed though was having to go back to using sendmail instead of postfix for email. In solaris 9, a whole raid 0 contains 2 disk must be configure, then, raid 1 mirroring slice by slice inside. Disk mirroring means its stores the same data on both hard disks and out of two harddisks user will get only one harddisk to store data. 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. In previous versions of solaris it was called solstice disksuite, or just disksuite for short.
A redundant array of inexpensive disks raid allows high levels of storage reliability. Following this release are a set of releases such as solaris 10 106, solaris 10 606, solaris 10 807, and so on. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, then choose action. Make sure that you know for sure which level of solaris you are using by looking at the etcrelease file on your system. It came with 2 disks but only one disk is being used at present. Csw community software available through is wonderful repository with hundreds of software packages for solaris 8, solaris 9 and solaris 10. If the volume is set up as a raw device for database management software or some other. Configure a hardware raid volume for the solaris os sun. Use one of the following methods to enable a slice in a submirror. I expect to follow this up with more notes on solaris in the following weeks.
Im currently using one drive for the system and a raid5 array software for the remaining three disks. In a case where you have some file systems mounted, you can force the export. Figure 91 shows a mirror that duplicates the root file system over two physical disks. This document describes how to setup a software raid 1 on a solaris 10 machine. We have lvm also in linux to configure mirrored volumes but software raid recovery is much easier in disk failures compare to linux lvm. The utility is built on a common library that enables the insertion of plugin modules for different drivers. About a year ago i upgraded my opensusebased webfilednsntpmail server to opensolaris that has worked out for the most partespecially having the zfs filesystem. Plan to use software raid veritas volume mgr on c1t2d0 disk. How to choose the configuration of the system disk for solaris 10 sparc. If you are running solaris 10 u5, you can only have mirroring using svm, plus the root file system must be ufs. A profile defines elements of the installation, for example, the software group to install.
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