Mandatory oracle solaris 11 os package updates sparc m7 mandatory oracle solaris 10 os patches and packages sparc m7 oracle solaris 10 1 mandatory. Has anyone heard about how this should be addressed within virtual. Vmware vsphere also affected by multiple vulnerabilities since its uses intelamd platforms. Solaris 10 containers are based on the lightweight solaris zones virtualization technology, and allow administrators to virtualize solaris 10 os environments on opensolaris without the use of a hypervisor. This section provides an overview of the sparc hypervisor, which supports logical domains the sparc hypervisor is a small firmware layer that provides a stable virtualized machine architecture to which an operating system can be written. Operating system support and patch requirements for agents bmc. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Then click ok from the above we have configured the vm to install solaris 10. Before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations to add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which. Oracle solaris virtualization includes the oracle solaris containers feature, oracle solaris legacy containers, oracle vm server for sparc formerly logical domains and oracle vm server for x86. Xen is a virtual machine monitor, called a hypervisor, which intercepts the guest domains system calls. Application of the general release image profile applies to new bug fixes. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
You would need to create ldoms through the hypervisor on a niagara based machine or hardware based partitions on machines that support them to avoid this. Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. To determine how long a solaris 10 system has been without patching, i remotely check the following from a linux system, because gnu date is handy 1 remotely grab the datetime from the most recent thing in the patch directory. It is necessary to boot the xenenabled solaris kernel on the physical machine rather than a normal solaris kernel. Same versions of packages and patches new solaris containers functionality support for zone rehosting migration.
So a decision was made to allow new driver support to ship in solaris update releases but for solaris to compete successfully against other operating systems, a gap of ca. Solaris x sun4v sparc cpu sparc hypervisor solaris x genunix sun4v interface usz cpu code operating system platform. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. Smartos virtualization centered derivative from joyent.
This type 2 hypervisor can run on many os such as solaris, linux, mac, and windows. Step by step installation of solaris 10 on vmware server. Mandatory oracle solaris 10 1 os patches and packages. Improved hypervisor failover sparc m8 and sparc m7. Currently, this is the oracle solaris 10 operating system with required patches, please refer to the documentation for specific requirements. Deployment and understanding of ldoms logical domains. If you install the oracle solaris 10 os in a guest domain, you must also install additional patches and in some cases, a patch bundle. For more information about the individual bulletins, see the download patches page and. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
Operating system patches can reduce the risk with help of. Oracle vm server for sparc enabling a flexible, efficient. Zones are well integrated into the whole lifecycle management process of the os when it comes to automatic installation or updates of zones. You can learn more about it and zones technology at the zones community. Eco consolidation with solaris solaris 8 6 solaris 8 on 6 v880s containers on 2 total savings t5220s with solaris 10 before after total 48 cpus 2 cpus 128 threads 204 rack units 4 rack units 98% space savings,200 watts 2,200 watts 83% less power 43,308 btus 7,216 btus 83% less btus os support cost. Creating, viewing and installing oracle solaris 10 into a. Hypervisor and logical domains oracle vm server for. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. In our previous article we setup a new virtual machine for solaris on vmware workstation 12 and now we are going to show you a complete demonstration on the installation of solaris 1011. Apparently sun and microsoft are working together to make solaris work as a guest operating system, so hopefully this will be fixed in a future update. Minimum supported versions of the firmware, os, and software sparc m7 improved hypervisor failover. It allows virtual machines to be imported or exported using the open virtualization format ovf, which is a standout feature of this product. Solaris 10 1008 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, logical domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network io, and paravirtualization support when solaris 10 is used as a guest os in xenbased.
How to install solaris 1011 on vmware workstation 12. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. Installing solaris 10 version 0708v01 on sun netra t2000. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. Provide native low overhead os virtualization, with high application isolation.
Solaris 10 virtualization presentation linkedin slideshare. Support for oracle vm gives solaris users both options. Solaris os patches solaris storage solaris zones solaris disks dns. The sun4v processors released as of september 2010 are the ultrasparc t1, the ultrasparc t2, the ultrasparc t2 plus and the ultrasparc t3 2. For oracle solaris 11 virtualization technology resources, go here.
For data collection from a solaris 10 or 11 computer configured as a zone, the agent must be. Operating system support and patch requirements for agents. Installing solaris 10 virtual machine with oracle vm. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. Obtain oracle solaris 10 patches sparc m8 sparc m7 server latebreaking information. You must load the corresponding firmware for your platform. Ldom technology allows us to allocate a systems various resources such as memory, cpus and devices io,networl interfaces etc into logical groupings and create multiple, discrete systems each having their own operating system, resources, and identity within a single computer system. If users encounter issues on the patch or minor update, trend micro will provide the appropriate support to ensure the product functions with the. Check latest patch on my oracle support website parallel patching is really helpful as.
Support for operating system, hypervisor and application. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. The role of oracle solaris zones and linux containers in a. From a patch management perspective, the hypervisor, like any.
The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. In this article we will be using the solaris version 10 but you can follow the same instruction for the latest version of solaris 11 that has been just released. Sparc servers that use the hypervisor provide hardware features to support the hypervisors control over a logical. When installing veritas products, please be aware that asls updates are not included in the patches update bundle. Use the commands in this chapter excerpt to create, view, install, network and manage logical domains on a cmt server, create guest domains, and install oracle solaris 10 as a virtual machine for your customers.
For additional information and examples about the patchadd and patchrm commands, see the appropriate solaris man pages. Oracle solaris zones technology is no longer just an additional feature of the os. Edit virtual machine select cdrom click radio button use iso image give the location of the solaris 10 downloaded iso image. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Compared to zones in oracle solaris 10, zones in oracle solaris 11 have been much more integrated with the os. This document does not cover installation of solaris 10 environment patches, the cisco. Download vmware vsphere with operations management. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Among the trove is a patch for cve20173622, a local privilege escalation hole in the common desktop environment on solaris 10 that is. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues.
Among the 237 fixes in oracles critical patch update for january are patches. Patch management for solaris 10 server pascal kreyeroracle may 12, 2014 11. This means that the same solaris 10 patches can be applied to all. The enterprise software giant is working on spectre fixes for solaris on sparc v9. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. Oracle vm server for sparcenabling a flexible, efficient it infrastructure guest operating system. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. Apply the latest available solaris 10 update release during the next major maintenance. Minor operating system and hypervisor updates or bug fixes trend micro will exert its best effort to support patches or minor updates i.
Microsoft hyperv server, 2012, 2012 r2, not applicable. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and. With the inclusion of kernel zones, oracle solaris 11 provides a. For data collection from a solaris 10 or 11 computer configured as a zone, the agent must be installed on the global. I need to install a version of solaris any will do, though preferably itll be a relatively recent version on hyperv windows server 2008 r2. Solaris 10 update 3 hw 1106 or solaris express build 57 or higher installed. Oracle solaris 11 is a complete, integrated and open platform engineered for largescale enterprise environments. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Oracles critical patch update offers fixes against cpu attacks. The sparc hypervisor runs in the hyperprivileged execution mode, which was introduced in the sun4v architecture.
If you install the oracle solaris 10 os in a guest domain, you must also install the latest recommended patch set for oracle solaris 10 sparc, and in some. Consequently, the patchadd command includes the new g option, which adds a patch only to the. Discovery creates the relationship between the hypervisor record and the vm instance record. In addition, solaris includes a second virtualization option, first added to solaris 10 when it was released in 2005. Vmware vsphere has multiple layers of virtualization and sadly, you should applyupdate the patches for all the components which includes operating systems, virtual machines, virtual appliances, hypervisors, server firmware, and cpu microcode. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and. Oracle x86 servers using non oracle os and virtualization software, says. When it comes to your virtual environment, the hypervisor also called the virtual machine monitor or vmm, is probably the most critical component because it allows multiple operating systems, called guests, to run concurrently on a host computer. Meltdown and spectre patches now available for oracle systems.
This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. The logical domains technology lets the system administrator change the cpu and virtual io resources made available to guest domains, and allows you to. Vulnerabilities how to fix meltdown and spectre on. For releases prior to solaris 10 1009, this feature is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 or later revision sparc and 11925566 or later revision x86. This rollup bulletin contains the latest vibs with all the fixes since the initial release of esxi 6. Since solaris nevada version build 75, xen has been developed and well inte. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Installation and upgrade checklist report for ie 7. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Solaris 10 containers technology is currently under development. Vmware patch and update releases contain general and critical image profiles. Mandatory oracle solaris 10 os patches sparc t7 series.
The firmware will contain the alom cmt, post, obp, and hypervisor updates. Install solaris on hyperv solutions experts exchange. Thats solaris zones, a method of dividing up a host servers resources among many applications each in its own software partition, known as a container or zone. After you successfully install the solaris 10 image on the netra t2000 host machine, you can proceed to install the solaris 10 environment patches, the cisco bams 3. Discovery creates a hypervisor zone server record, and creates a virtual machine instance record for each solaris device in the local zone. Neither oracle nor the illumos community has shown any interest in getting a solaris kernel running in dom0. A supported version of the os is only supported in guest domains.
A strong patch management program is essential for any virtual or physical it system. Set the network type of the solaris 10 virtual machine. Its built in virtualization provides a highly efficient and scalable solution that sits at the core of that platform. The solaris 10 operating system introduced the new concept of zones. It is compatible with both x86 and x64 os, and it is quite portable. Only systems based on those processors support logical domains.
Sparc servers that use the hypervisor provide hardware features to support the hypervisor s control over a logical. Oracle provides a complete virtualization solution from the desktop to the datacenter. If you choose to install the oracle solaris 10 os in a guest domain, you must also install additional patches and in some cases, a patch bundle. This documents my experiments with opensolaris 10 solaris express, jan 2008 edition, getting it to run under hyperv release candidate on windows server 2008 public product release. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Mandatory oracle solaris 10 os patches and packages sparc. Ive found that the newest solaris 10 complains of scsi timeouts on login and takes forever to do anything. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on gnome and. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box.
Combine the worlds leading virtualization platform with best in class management capabilities, enabling users to gain operational insight, reduce capital and operating costs, and optimizing capacity. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Solaris patches applied to the global zone will default to installing in all local zones as well. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Source solaris 10 iso image to be read on boot up, this can be done by clicking. An os that understands both the sun4v platform and the virtual devices presented by the hypervisor.