Solaris 10- OS patching using Live-upgrade - Uni. http:/www.unixarena.com/2012/07/solaris-10-0s- 1o0f5 SOLARIS 10- OS PATCHING USING LIVE-UPGRADE Live upgrade, Solaris 10,265 Solaris 05 patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from Solaris 10 on-wards.We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade ,make sure you are using ZFS as a root filesystem For ‘you information, from Solaris 11 onward,ZFS will be the default root filesystem. In other-words, i the system's ro0t filesystem is ZFS ,then you have to use liveupgrade and no other way to do it. This patching activity can be performed while server is in production since we are installing the patches on alternative boot environment, Here 1 am sharing the experience my experience with Liveupgrade.W have to make sure that there is enough space left on the servers for OS patching in root FS. ‘The frst step will be creating new boot environment for OS patching and i am giving new BE name as SOL, 201201 08/21/2017 12:52 AMSolaris 10- OS patching using Live-upgrade - Uni. 20f5 ‘Here Lam manually mounting the newly created boot environment http:/www.unixarena.com/2012/07/solaris-10-0s- Here we have to make sure, that global zone should be in installed status (Otherwise Liveupgrade will through some error while patching. Un-mounting the Altemate boot environment: Just navigating to the patch cluster directory. This directory should be in 777 permission. Because while installing the patches system is not only using user “root”. There are some other users like “other” also be used {or patching, So this directory should be readable to other users, ‘Installing prerequest patchset Ohh... is failed due to insufficient swap space: 08/21/2017 12:52 AMSolaris 10- OS patching using Live-upgrade - Uni. fers eciet¢ ‘Sis tmies ¢ ¢28) ge ‘Sinton 30f5 http://www.unixarena.com/2012/07/solaris-10-05-. 08/21/2017 12:52 AM