Solaris 8 jumpstart on 6800 domains

Hi,
Can any one tell how to install solaris 8 on 6800 domains , i did before jumpstart installations on 480, 480 280 240 from SC controller with boot - net install .
but how do i install on 6800 box , imean how do i configure 6800 domains to install the solaris 8 from jumpstart .
Thanks in advance for the help.
SUSESUN

Start here with the documentation for setting up domains.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1000-10?q=6800+domain+setup

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Best way to update a solaris jumpstart OS image.

Hi all,.
Ive been recently building some v240's but have run into trouble with the rather out of date 02/02 instance of Solaris 8 (yes, i did say solaris 8 - it's a political thing..)
Anyhow, I have cd images of Solaris 8 02/04 and have a copy of the Sun Blueprints Jumpstart book by "Howard and Noordergraph".
On page 92, it says to use the "setup_install_server" script with the -b option for /jumpstart/OS/Solaris-xx-xx-xx.
Ive done that without any probs, then it goes on to say if you want an install server do the same command again without the -b switch.
Problem is that it spews out this message.
733 root@bbs00080 # ./setup_install_server -b /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_02-2004/
Verifying target directory...
setup_install_server:
The target directory /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_02-2004/ is not empty. Please choose an empty
directory or remove all files from the specified directory and run
this program again.
So i chose an empty directory and it goes and does it.
Is this an errata?
I already have /jumpstart/OS/Solaris_8_02-2002/ and I wanted to update the files so that I can boot the v240r.
Except 02/02 doesnt let me do that as it doesnt support the v240r arch.
Sun told me this, but I'm lost because my existing profile for this box, lists all the packages I want to install, but it whinges about not being able to find a .cdrom toc file.
I already have three flash archives which i created from good builds from 02/02, in my rules file which work, but this pesky update for the 240r is getting to be a little tricky.
So far, ive tried copying all the packages from 02/02/Products directory into 02/04/Products but some of them don't install despite being there.
Can anyone suggest the best way to update my 02/02 with the 02/04 boot loader for the v240?
Thanks in advance and sorry for any confusion.
D.

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Solaris 10 Jumpstart error: panic - boot: boot: scratch memory overflow.

I am setting up a Solaris Jumpstart server using a Linux server as the Boot/Config/Install server. The Sun box I am using is a v120 that will be running Solaris 10 update 5.
After running the "boot net - install" command and running through the setup the install terminates with the error
boot: failed to allocate 8192 bytes from scratch memory
panic - boot: boot: scratch memory overflow.
Program terminated
ok
ok
I found a patch (111306-07) that supposedly fixes this problem (logged as bug 4411148). Is there a specific way to add a patch to Jumpstart so that it installs before the system reboots after the main install is done? I know the patches folder goes off of the added on date for the patch and not a patch_order file, does that mean it can just be placed in the folder and will be added automatically? Has anyone seen this error message before on their own systems?
Thanks in advance for any help.

derekw wrote:
I am setting up a Solaris Jumpstart server using a Linux server as the Boot/Config/Install server. The Sun box I am using is a v120 that will be running Solaris 10 update 5.
After running the "boot net - install" command and running through the setup the install terminates with the error
boot: failed to allocate 8192 bytes from scratch memory
panic - boot: boot: scratch memory overflow.So this happens while the client jumpstart OS is running.
I found a patch (111306-07) that supposedly fixes this problem (logged as bug 4411148). Is there a specific way to add a patch to Jumpstart so that it installs before the system reboots after the main install is done?You actually need to install it before the OS loads I would thing.
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For the first part, find your jumpstart image and pass that into patchadd with the -C flag to patch the jumpstart portion.
Darren

Problem with logical domain and boot net

Trying to install a new domain on a T2000. Able to get to "Configuring devices" but then it just sits and twirls... What have I configured wrong in the domain creation?
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/cpu@5
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/cpu@2
/cpu@1
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/virtual-devices@100
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There are a number of issues with network booting in LDOM 1.0.2, I think they affect all versions of the LDOM software though. If you add a vnet to a guest domain and then try and jumpstart a guest domain from time to time immediately after the guest domain does the RARP request it hangs. Just sending a break to the guest domain, going back to the ok prompt and starting the boot net - install again generally fixes it.
Also there are some gotcha's with LDOM's that affect jumpstart.
1) If you chose option a) harden the OS using JASS when doing the installation of the LDOM software and you have the jumpstart server on the control domain then it isn't going to work. JASS turns off things like rpcbind which will prevent jumpstart from working. The same problem affects network booting. You would think that running a jass-execute -u to undo the hardening of the o/s in the control domain would work but it doesn't and you have to start over with a fresh solaris image for the control domain. This only applies if you have your jumpstart server on your control domain.
2) Since jumpstart relies on the MAC of the client to function and since with LDOM's the MAC is dynamically assigned from a pool of address's you can end up with the wrong entry in /etc/ethers on your jumpstart server. That is worth checking.
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Paul.

How to launching a perl script by the "begin" script of a jumpstart

Hi all,
i have an urgent pb with my solaris jumpstart, let me explain to you :
i want that the begin script launch some perl script, but i have a problem
here is my "begin" script:
echo "Begining ISO FLAR based jumpstart."
echo ""
echo "Starting Ullink Configuration"
env > /tmp/env
/bin/sh << EOF
/usr/bin/perl /cdrom/.archives/admin-scripts/sethostname.pl
EOFmy perl script use a STDIN
with this configuration, the perl script is launching but it runs in a loop indefinitely with an error "use of uninitialized value", because (i think) a value is return to the begin scritp and not to the perl script.
well, on a pre-installed solaris, if a launch the begin script, it happens the same thing, it runs in a loop, BUT if i comment the line "/bin/sh <<EOF" and "EOF", it works.
at this step, i say "ok it's cool my script is working", but when i use it during the jumpstart instalaltion, the perl script does not start, without any particular error.
here is my perl script, if you want to test :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w^M
# Set Hostname for Ullink Jumpstart^M
^M
use strict;^M
^M
sub hit_enter {^M
    print "Hit enter to continue\n";^M
    <STDIN>;^M
    print "\033[2J";^M
}^M
^M
sub get_hostname {^M
    my %towns_list = (^M
        'Paris' => 'PA',^M
        'New-York' => 'NY',^M
    );^M
^M
    my %sites_list = (^M
        'Office' => 'OFC',^M
        'Redbus' => 'RED',^M
        'Telehouse' => 'TLH',^M
        'DTC' => 'DTC',^M
        'iAdvantage' => 'IAD',^M
        'Nutley' => 'NUT',^M
        'Level3' => 'LV3',^M
        'Equinix' => 'EQX',^M
        'Tata' => 'TAT',^M
        'Switch-data' => 'SWI',^M
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^M
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        'DMZ' => 'DMZ',^M
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^M
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        my @keys = keys %hash_list;^M
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^M
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^M
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        chomp ($server_number = <STDIN>);^M
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            &hit_enter;^M
            &srv_number;^M
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^M
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            print HOSTNAME "$_[0]\n";^M
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^M
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        &write_hostname2tmp($full_hostname);^M
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        if (<STDIN> =~ /s/i) {^M
            print "Type the full required name and hit enter when finished :\n";^M
            chomp ($full_hostname = <STDIN>);^M
            &write_hostname2tmp;^M
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            &get_hostname;^M
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^M
# Start configuration^M
print "\033[2J";^M
print "\n########################################################\n";^M
print "#\t\t\t\t\t\t       #\n";^M
print "#\t\t\tULLINK\t\t\t       #\n";^M
print '# Solaris Environnement Installation for Datacenters #';^M
print "\n#\t\t\t\t\t\t       #";^M
print "\n########################################################\n\n";^M
print "Before starting installation, you need to enter a set of informations.\n(answer to all questions, you can Ctrl+C to stop now)\n\n";^M
&hit_enter;^M
^M
&get_hostname;^Mthank for your help
Edited by: ullink on Jun 25, 2009 6:05 AM

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Disk Access Failed while Installing Solaris Container.

I have setup 5 guest domains together with the Control Domain.
$ ldm list
Name State Flags Cons VCPU Memory Util Uptime
primary active -t-cv SP 4 4G 0.8% 2d 2h 15m
secondary active -t--v 5000 4 2G 0.5% 3h 5m
dmz active -t--- 5001 8 2G 0.0% 46m
sunray inactive -----
application inactive -----
identity active -t--- 5002 4 4G 0.1% 1h 2m
In each of the guest domain, I plan to install a number of Solaris Containers to run different applications. While installing one Solaris container (zoneadm �z <zone name> install) in dmz domain, I start the installation/configuration (either zoneadm �z <zone name> install or zlogin �C <zone name>) of another Solaris container in identity domain. Everything starts OK until half way I get an error message as follow:
Jun 13 18:33:16 dmz vdc: NOTICE: [1] disk access failed.
The installation of the Solaris Container in dmz halts as soon as I see the message above. Nothing will work except a force stop in the Control Domain using ldm stop �f dmz and restart.
What happen to the Solaris Container installation/configuration in identity domain? It either continues the process without error or fails with the same error message shortly after. For example,
Jun 13 18:33:24 identity vdc: NOTICE: [1] disk access failed.
The vdisks for each guest domain are setup by following the steps on section �Using ZFS Over a Virtual Disk� in LDoms 1.0 Administration Guide. Each guest domain is booted from a disk image in the Control Domain and has two 9GB data vdisks (mapped to two physical 9GB disks on A5200 disk array) running ZFS striping. Each guest domain vdisks are serviced by a separate vdisk server.
Any idea?

I am not sure if multiple virtual disk servers are officially supported under current LDoms release.
I had tried using only one virtual disk server. The same problem exhibited. I thought may be the vds was not able to keep up with the virtual disk I/O. That's why I setup multiple vds.

Zones or Logical Domains

Hello,
If I have an Enterprise T5120 server, would I be better off employing solaris zones or logical domains? I took a long break from this area of expertise and find myself in the wonderful world of virtualization!
Also, if you have any recommendations on books, whitepapers, other documentation, etc., that I can read on both subjects, I would be very appreciative.
Thank you for you assistance.

Well, you could use both :)
did you see this article? I find it rather good:
http://blogs.oracle.com/bobn/entry/zones_vs_ldoms
.7/M.

[SOLVED] SGA_MAX_SIZE pre-allocated with Solaris 10?

Hi all,
I'm about to build a new production database to migrate an existing 8.1.7 database to 10.2.0.3. I'm in the enviable position of having a good chunk of memory to play with on the new system (compared with the existing one) so was looking at a suitable size for the SGA... when something pinged in my memory about SGA_MAX_SIZE and memory allocation in the OS where some platforms will allocate the entire amount of SGA_MAX_SIZE rather than just SGA_TARGET.
So I did a little test. Using Solaris 10 and Oracle 10.2.0.3 I've created a basic database with SGA_MAX_SIZE set to 400MB and SGA_TARGET 280MB
$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Wed Jan 30 18:31:21 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Enter user-name: / as sysdba
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> show parameter sga
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
lock_sga                             boolean     FALSE
pre_page_sga                         boolean     FALSE
sga_max_size                         big integer 400M
sga_target                           big integer 280MSo I was expecting to see the OS pre-allocate 280MB of memory but when I checked the segment is actually the 400MB (i.e. SGA_MAX_SIZE) (my database owner is 'ora10g'):
$ ipcs -a
IPC status from <running system> as of Wed Jan 30 18:31:36 GMT 2008
T         ID      KEY        MODE        OWNER    GROUP CREATOR
CGROUP CBYTES QNUM QBYTES LSPID LRPID   STIME    RTIME    CTIME
Message Queues:
T         ID      KEY        MODE        OWNER    GROUP CREATOR
CGROUP NATTCH      SEGSZ CPID LPID   ATIME    DTIME    CTIME
Shared Memory:
m         22   0x2394e4   rw-r---   ora10g   10gdba   ora10g
10gdba     20 419438592 2386 2542 18:31:22 18:31:28 18:28:18
T         ID      KEY        MODE        OWNER    GROUP CREATOR
CGROUP NSEMS   OTIME    CTIME
Semaphores:
s         23   0x89a070e8 ra-r---   ora10g   10gdba   ora10g
10gdba   154 18:31:31 18:28:18
$ I wasn't sure whether Solaris 10 was one of the OSs with truly dynamic memory for the SGA but had hoped it was... this seems to say different. Really I'm just after some confirmation that I'm reading this correctly.
Thanks.
Joseph
Message was edited by:
Joseph Crofts
Edited for clarity

I don't want to get bogged down in too many details, as the links provided in previous posts have many details of SGA tests and the results of what happened. I just want to add a bit of explanation about the Oracle SGA and shared memory on UNIX and Solaris in particular.
As you know Oracle's SGA is generally a single segment of shared memory. Historically this was 'normal' memory and could be paged out to the swap device. So a 500 MB SGA on a 1 GB physical memory system, would allocate 500 MB from the swap device for paging purposes, but might not use 500 MB of physical memory i.e. free memory might not decrease by 500 MB. How much physical memory depended on what pages in the SGA were accessed, and how frequently.
At some point some people realised that this paging of the SGA was actually slowing performance of Oracle, as now some 'memory' accesses by Oracle could actually cause 'disk' accesses by paging in saved pages from the swap device. So some operating systems introduced a 'lock' option when creating a shared memory segment (shmat system call if memory serves me). And this was often enabled by a corresponding Oracle initialisation parameter, such as lock_sga.
Now a 'locked' SGA did use up the full physical memory, and was guaranteed not to be paged out to disk. So Oracle SGA access was now always at memory speed, and consistent.
Some operating systems took advantage of this 'lock' flag to shared memory segment creation to implement some other performance optimisations. One is not to allocate paging storage from swap space anyway, as it cannot be used by this shared memory segment. Another is to share the secondary page tables within the virtual memory sub-system for this segment over all processes attached to it i.e. one shared page table for the segment, not one page table per process. This can lead to massive memory savings on large SGAs with many attached shadow server processes. Another optimisation on this non-paged, contiguous memory segment is to use large memory pages instead of standard small ones. On Solaris instead of one page entry covering 8 KB of physical memory, it covers 8 MB of physical memory. This reduces the size of the virtual memory page table by a factor of 1,000 - another major memory saving.
These were some of the optimisations that the original Red Hat Enterprise Linux had to introduce, to play catch up with Solaris, and to not waste memory on large page tables.
Due to these extra optimisations, Solaris chose to call this 'locking' of shared memory segments 'initimate shared memory' or ISM for short. And I think there was a corresponding Oracle parameter 'use_ism'. This is now the default setting in Oracle ports to Solaris.
As a result, this is why when Oracle grabs its shared memory segment up front (SGA_MAX_SIZE), it results in that amount of real physical memory being allocated and used.
With Oracle 9i and 10g when Oracle introduced the SGA_TARGET and other settings and could dynamically resize the SGA, this messed things up for Solaris. Because the shared memory segment was 'Intimate' by default, and was not backed up by paging space on the swap device, it could never shrink in size, or release memory as it could not be paged out.
Eventually Sun wrote a work around for this problem, and called it Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory (DISM). This is not on by default in Oracle, hence you are seeing all your shared memory segments using the same amount of physical memory. DISM allows the 'lock' flag to be turned on and off on a shared memory segment, and to be done over various memory sizes.
I am not sure of the details, and so am beginning to get vague here. But I remember that this was a workaround on Sun's part to still get the benefits of ISM and the memory savings from large virtual memory pages and shared secondary page tables, while allowing Oracle to manage the SGA size dynamically and be able to release memory back for use by other things. I'm not sure if DISM allows Oracle to mark memory areas as pageable or locked, or whether it allows Oracle to really grow and shrink the size of a single shared memory segment. I presumed it added yet more flags to the various shared memory system calls.
Although DISM should work on normal, single Solaris systems, as you know it is not enabled by default, and requires a special initialisation parameter. Also be aware that there are issues with DISM on high end Solaris systems that support Domains (F15K, F25K, etc.) and in Solaris Zones or Containers. Domains have problems when you want to dynamically remove a CPU/Memory board from the system, and the allocations of memory on that board must be reallocated to other memory boards. This can break the rule that a locked shared memory segment must occupy contiguous physical memory. It took Sun another couple of releases of Solaris (or patches or quarterly releases) before they got DISM to work properly in a system with domains.
I hope I am not trying to teach my granny to suck eggs, if you know what I mean. I just thought I'd provide a bit more background details.
John

Installing Solaris 10 on Sunfire V120 via network boot from Linux

I have been given a free SunFire V120 server loaded with and old copy of Solaris 9. The problem is that this server no longer has the internal DVD/CDRom drive any more. Google'd for finding a replacement CD-Rom drive show cost more than the SunFire V120 unit itself.
The plan: Install Solaris 10 for SPARC on Sunfire V120 Server
Available:
-- Sun Microsystems SunFire V120 Server (1GB of Ram and 2x 36GB 10K RPM SCSI3 drives)
-- CentOS 5.1 Linux Server
-- Solaris 10 SPARC DVD ISO Image
-- DB25 to RJ45 Serial Cable accessing V120 LOM via Minicom application on CentOS 5 server
Via the http://www.docbert.org/Solaris/Jumpstart/linux.html site, I have configured the following:
* NFS Server (nfs-utils under RedHat)
* bootparams server (bootparamd under RedHat)
* rarpd server (rarpd under RedHat)
* tftp server (tftp-server)
CentOS Server Settings:
[root@jsserv ~]# cat /etc/ethers
0:3:ba:36:34:48 jsclient
[root@jsserv ~]# cat /etc/bootparams
jsclient root=jsserv:/jumpstart/sol10/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot install=jsserv:/jumpstart/sol10 boottype=:in
[root@jsserv ~]# cat /etc/exports
/jumpstart *(ro,no_root_squash)
[root@jsserv ~]# cat /etc/hosts
192.168.0.20 jsserv
192.168.0.22 jsclient
[root@jsserv ~]# ls -l /tftpboot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 7 13:35 C0A80016 -> inetboot.sol10.sun4u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 7 13:35 C0A80016.SUN4U -> inetboot.sol10.sun4u
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217016 Mar 7 13:34 inetboot.sol10.sun4u
On CentOS Linux server -- under /var/log/messages, the rarpd shows this message:
Mar 7 14:24:41 jsserv rarpd[3516]: RARP request from 0 on eth0
Mar 7 14:24:41 jsserv rarpd[3516]: RARP response to 0 192.168.0.22 on eth0
On the SunFire V120 server, the console displays:
Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #53883976.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:36:34:48, Host ID: 83363448.
Executing last command: boot net -v - install
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@c,1 File and args: -v - install
38e00 Using RARP/BOOTPARAMS...
Internet address is: 192.168.0.22
hostname: jsclient
domainname: (none)
Found 192.168.0.20 @ 0:13:d3:9a:9e:98
root server: jsserv (192.168.0.20)
root directory: /jumpstart/sol10/Solaris_10/Tools/Boot
boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix
Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: /platform/sun4u/kernel/sparcv9/unix
boot: failed to allocate 8192 bytes from scratch memory
panic - boot: boot: scratch memory overflow.
Program terminated
So now what do I do?
-- Michael

Anyone know where I can get the firmware (OBP) update / upgrade version 4.22 for the SunFire V120 server?
There is an old thread (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5137796) that talks of having to update your firmware 4.22.x, but I have looked through the SunSolve site and I cannot find a reference to this firmware any place for the SunFire V120 servers.

Solaris releases supported?

I am working on an issue where we need to run old releases of Solaris 10 in order to test our application. We were led to believe that since the hypervisor abstracts that hardware from the OS that we could upgrade our hardware and still run an older OS. For example, we have a requirement to run Solaris 10 update 2. But the release notes for LDOMs 1.2 and 1.3 say that we have to run a minimum Solaris release and/or a minimum kernel patch level in order for our OS to be supported.
Can anyone clarify the rules for guest OSes? Does nayone successfully run unpatched old releases in LDOM guests?
Thanks!

The release notes recommend (as oppose to require) a specific version so that all the features are enabled.
Running older versions of Solaris in the guest domains is supported (you just won't have all the features
enabled that are listed in that LDoms release).
However I'm afraid you're out of luck with the S10U2 requirement as that is not technically possible.
LDoms support went into S10U3 and any older OS version won't have the LDoms drivers.
Personally, I wouldn't bother with anything less than S10U4 in a guest domain.
HTH

Trying to configure RedHat Enterprise 4.3 linux jumpstart server

I am trying to configure a system under RedHat Enterprise 4.3 linux to jumpstart
a Sun Ultra 60 and install Solaris 9. Web pages and SysAdmin 4/2005 article
"Portable JumpStart Environment" have not addressed my problem. I am using
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1. The bootblock is
delivered to the sun client and executes.
The entries in dhcpd.conf conform to those published in various Web
pages and the article "Portable Jumpstart".
The Solaris 9 OS distribution is exported thus:
/wks xxx.xx.xx.0/24(ro,wdelay,no_root_squash,mountpoint)
The load fails upon execution of .../Solaris_9/Tools/Boot/sbin/rcS
I think the problem may be with NFS. The mount request of the
exported filesystem appears to work:
rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from sunxxx.xx.xx.xx:1023 for /wks/dist/sun/sparc/sunos5.9/9_404/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot (/wks)
The first errors reported are:
/sbin/rcS: /dev/null: cannot open
/sbin/rcS: /dev/null cannot create
I have captured the conversation between the linux jumpstart server and
the Sun client using tcpdump: tcpdump -vvv -s 192 host server and client.
I am not highly skilled at interpreting the tcpdump output; the cause of
the failure is not obvious to me.
I have successfully used a jumpstart server under Solaris 9 for quite some time. ISC DHCP is deployed on the Solaris jumpstart server.
Thank you,
D. Castellano

While some have reported success doing this, I have heard of many failures. The common thread appears to be that when accessing device files, the Solaris client gets back something odd from the Linux NFS server.
Certainly this was the case for every attempt I knew about from a 2.2 kernel and earlier. I have see success reports, but do not have details about exactly which kernel or NFS patches were present.
This works fine from Network appliance and FreeBSD NFS servers, so I think there's some sticky point with the Linux NFS server that just doesn't handle the device files in the same manner.
See this newsgroup post (and the accompanying thread). It contains some discovered issues and some Linux servers that are reported to work.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_frm/thread/448f37ee205860c1/e224fe968442d3c3
Darren

Can I install Sun Cluster on LDOM guest domain. Is Oracle RAC a supported c

Hello,
Can I install Sun Cluster on LDOM guest domains. Is Oracle RAC on LDOM guest domains of 2 physical servers a supported configuration from oracle?
Many thanks in advance
Ushas Symon

Hello,
The motive behind using LDOm Guest domains as RAC node is to have a better control of the resource allocation, since i will be having more than one guest domains which should perform different functions. The customer wants to have ORACLE RAC alone (without sun cluster).
I will have two T5120's and one 2540 shared storage.
My plan of configuration is to have
Control&IO Domain with 8VCPU, 6GB mem
one LDOM guest domain on each physical machine with 8 VCPU's, 8GB of memory, shared n/w and disks participating as RAC node's. (Don't know yet if i will use solaris cluster or not)
one guest domain on each physical machine with 12 VCPU's, 14GB of memory, shared n/w and disks participating as BEA weblogic cluster nodes (not on solaris cluster)
One guest domain on each physical machine with 4 VCPU's, 4GB of memory,shared n/w and disks participating as apache web cluster (on solaris cluster)
Now, My question is, is it a supported configuration to have guest domains as Oracle RAC participants for 11gR2 (either with or without solaris cluster).
If I need to configure RAC nodes on solaris cluster, is it possible to have two independent clusters on LDOM , one 2 node cluster for RAC and another 2 node cluster for apache web?
Kindly advise
Many thanks in advance
Ushas Symon

Build recipe for dual I/O domains

Hello
I have 2 T4's each with 2 PCI buses. I want to build it with 2 separate I/O domains and each one feeds a path of SAN disk to the guest LDoms. I have assigned one bus to each domain but can't seem to get vdisk services to work with mpathing. What I have now is not working and would like a clear idea of how I should put one of these systems together.
I've seen lots of recipes for basic LDom guests which is fine. But nothing for a dual I/O domain setup.
Many thanks

Hi there.
http://seriousbirder.com/blogs/solaris-ldom-split-io-domain-configuration-example
I used this one, and it worked perfectly. It is an exampel for a T4.
Cheers

Installing Solaris via network

A few days ago I have got an old Sun server (Netra 1125).
I am fairly new to Sun hardware and I wonder if there is a way to install Solaris via serial cable and a TCP/IP network (I don't have a cdrom and I don't have vga or floppies).
I have a Linux machine nearby. Can I use BOOTP or something like that?
Can anybody point me to some documentation?

solaris' network install is called "jumpstart"
searching for "solaris jumpstart linux" on google provides some pages, in particular is this one that is pretty old (references sunos4) but should work... http://www.unixpeople.com/HOWTO/jumpstart_on_linux.html

Apple Powerbook with OS X as Jumpstart Server

In a month I will need to install Solaris 9 on multiple SUN servers via a jumpstart process. Now, I've done this a few times using a SUN server running SolarisOS. This time I�m on a tight schedule since it requires going overseas to the client's site. I have 2 scenarios available to me:
1. Jumpstart using an Intel laptop running VMware with Solaris distro
or
2. use an Apple Powerbook running Mac OS X 10.3.8 to install
I'd rather use #2 if I can since in scenario #1 the laptop is running MS Windoze (don't ask).
My understanding that the <b>install</b> server is easy since it only requires an NFS mount (supported by OS X). The problem lies in the <b>boot</b> server since there some differences/problems on OS X such as rarpd, etc.
I found this thread where a SUN engineer actually did try to use OS X -;)
http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2004-September/0 04753.html
I�m asking for your you expert advise on this one:
Has anyone of you tried this before and if you have could you please post your comments/suggestions/solutions in this thread?
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Andrei T.

Here is an update from me(better later than never):
I ended up using Solaris9 though VMWare software on WindowsXP laptop and successfully jump started 7 Sun servers that way.
Thank you, Chris Marget.
I have not given up on the idea using my powerbook as a Solaris jumpstart server .
Since I also own an Ultra10 workstation I will give it a try once I have more spare time. I'll try to keep you all posted on my progress.
Best regards,

Solaris 8 jumpstart on 6800 domains

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