Re: installing solaris 10 on a v880
- From: "greek_philosophizer@xxxxxxxxxxx" <greek_philosophizer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Jul 2006 11:43:29 -0700
bl8n8r wrote:
Hello All.
I've got a v880 that is going to be upgraded to solaris 10. It's
running 8 now. I've worked with Ultras and Blade 2500s, but never
anything on the scale of the v880. The v880 is running oracle as well
as veritas. I think the OS and Oracle are both sitting on a veritas
volume which is on top of the disk array. The veritas guru bailed,
and isn't really available for comment. We're not able to find anyone
willing to take on the task of upgrading this system. I would guess
the guru put veritas on the entire volume solely for the ability to
resize partitions as needed, but just guessing.
So, what I'm thinking about doing is tarring up all the data sitting on
the veritas layer, to an nfs share, powering off the v880 on a
saturday, attaching an old a1000 (un-veritas'd) disk array to the v880
and installing sol 10 on the a1000 to boot the v880 with. If the v880
comes up on the a1000, I'll bring up oracle over some nfs shares and
see if everything runs. If all goes well, wipe the v880 veritas'd disk
array and just install solaris 10 there (without veritas). Next would
be pulling back data from tarball sitting on nfs for passwords, user
accounts, groups, etc.
How many gotchas do you guys see with this? I don't know what a v880
costs, but making a mistake and having 700 or so users without their
oracle database for a day/week may just outweight the cost of having a
second v880 to setup on which would migrate at a later date to a
failover box or something.
I have ufsdumped a veritas v880 and put it on straight devices on
another v880 and
then upgraded the dump from 8 to 10. All you have to do is ensure that
you turn off all the veritas startup scripts ,disable the executeables
and change the vfstab and system file of course.
..
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