SOUG - Experiences with Oracle Solaris 11.4
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Oracle Solaris 11.4 was launched in August 2018. What are the new features in the area of Zones, ZFS and Security? What was delivered in the last 30 monthly updates?
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Solaris 11.4 / Zones (Dataset Add/Remove)
Delegate ZPOOLs online into zones
# zonecfg -z v0168 -r "add dataset; set name=v0168_delegated; end"
zone 'v0168': Checking: Adding dataset name=v0168_delegated
zone 'v0168': Applying the changes
# zlogin v0168
[Connected to zone 'v0168' pts/7]
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11
Solaris_11/11.4/ON/production.build-59:2018-03-22 March 2018
root@v0168:~# zpool import v0168_delegated
root@v0168:~# zpool list
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
rpool 9.94G 764M 9.19G 7% 1.00x ONLINE -
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SOUG - Experiences with Oracle Solaris 11.4
- 1. 1 Experiences with Oracle Solaris 11.4 Marcel Hofstetter [email protected] https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch CEO / Enterprise Consultant JomaSoft GmbH V1.1 / 07.06.2021 SOUG Day Online 02.06.2021 16:30 – 17:00
- 2. 2 Agenda About JomaSoft State of Solaris 10 / Solaris 11.3 Solaris 11.4 (available since 08/2018) New Features introduced in the last months Experiences and Challenges
- 3. 3 About JomaSoft Engineering company founded in July 2000 specialized in Solaris/SPARC and software development, operations and consulting Product VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework) Installation, Management, Operations, Monitoring, Patching, Security/Compliance, Hardening and DR for Solaris 10/11, Virtualize using LDoms and Solaris Zones VDCF is used in production since 2006
- 4. 4 Marcel Hofstetter Working in IT since 25+ years Solaris since 23 years CEO at JomaSoft GmbH since 21 years International Speaker: Oracle OpenWorld, DOAG, UKOUG, SOUG, AOUG Solaris https://twitter.com/marcel_jomasoft SOUG (Swiss Oracle User Group) – Speaker of the Year 2016 Hobbies: Family, Travel, Wine & Dine, Movies https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelhofstetter https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch
- 5. 5 Solaris 10/11.3: Extended Support Extended Support Must be ordered to gain access to new patches Cost: Additional 20% Only a few patches each quarter Ends 31.01.2024 Support yes, but no new patches It is about time to migrate to Solaris 11.4
- 6. 6 Solaris 11.4 Available since 08/2018 What's new Solaris (Web) Dashboard Admin History ZFS: Asynchronous Destroy ZFS: Compressed & Resumable Replication ZFS: ZPOOL Disk Remove Zones: Flexible Boot using SMF Zones: Online ZPOOL Dataset add/remove
- 7. 7 Solaris 11.4 / Solaris (Web) Dashboard Solaris Dashboard contains the Overview Solaris Analytics for Analysis Statistics and Events for easier diagnose Statistics store (sstore / DB / CLI) RAM, CPU, Disk, Network, SMF, ... Realtime and historical data Various Views (Components, Partitions, Time frames)
- 8. 8 Solaris 11.4 / Solaris (Web) Dashboard
- 9. 9 Solaris 11.4 / Solaris (Web) Dashboard
- 10. 10 Solaris 11.4 / Solaris (Web) Dashboard
- 11. 11 Solaris 11.4 / Solaris (Web) Dashboard
- 12. 12 Solaris 11.4 / Solaris (Web) Dashboard
- 13. 13 Solaris 11.4 / Admin History What did Marcel do on 5th June evening? # admhist -a 20180605175000 -b 20180605181000 -v | grep marcel 2018-06-05 17:59:38.419+02:00 marcel@g0068 cwd=/export/home/marcel /usr/sbin/zpool zpool destroy g0068_delegated 2018-06-05 17:59:52.262+02:00 marcel@g0068 cwd=/export/home/marcel /usr/sbin/zpool zpool create v0168_delegated c1d2 2018-06-05 18:00:45.894+02:00 marcel@g0068 cwd=/root /usr/sbin/zpool zpool import v0168_delegated
- 14. 14 Solaris 11.4 / ZFS (destroy) # zfs list destroytest/fs1 NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT destroytest/fs1 22.1G 17.1G 22.1G /fs1 # time zfs destroy destroytest/fs1; zfs create -o mountpoint=/fs1 destroytest/fs1 real 0m0.654s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.621s # zpool monitor -t destroy destroytest 5 POOL PROVIDER TOTAL SPEED TIMELEFT destroytest destroy 22.1G 0 unknown destroytest destroy 20.1G 401M 51s destroytest destroy 13.5G 872M 15s destroytest destroy 10.8G 767M 14s destroytest destroy 4.92G 878M 5s
- 15. 15 Solaris 11.4 / ZFS (Replication) Filesystem Replication over the network Restart is now supported Compressed data is now transferred compressed
- 16. 16 Solaris 11.4 / ZFS (Disk Remove) ZPOOLs can shrink now (finally) Data is distributed to the other disks ZPOOL Disk1 Disk2 Disk3 Disk4
- 17. 17 Solaris 11.4 / Zones (SMF) -bash-4.4$ svcs | grep zones/zone online 8:41:22 svc:/system/zones/zone:v0157 online 8:41:31 svc:/system/zones/zone:v0134 Each zone has his own SMF service Dependencies for booting can be defined now
- 18. 18 Solaris 11.4 / Zones (Dataset Add/Remove) Delegate ZPOOLs online into zones # zonecfg -z v0168 -r "add dataset; set name=v0168_delegated; end" zone 'v0168': Checking: Adding dataset name=v0168_delegated zone 'v0168': Applying the changes # zlogin v0168 [Connected to zone 'v0168' pts/7] Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 Solaris_11/11.4/ON/production.build-59:2018-03-22 March 2018 root@v0168:~# zpool import v0168_delegated root@v0168:~# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 9.94G 764M 9.19G 7% 1.00x ONLINE - v0168_delegated 9.94G 98.5K 9.94G 0% 1.00x ONLINE -
- 19. 19 Solaris 11.4 / Small things Firewall: Packet Filter (PF) replaces IP Filter (IPF) Apache 2.4 replaces Apache 2.2 fsstat -l, measures Filesystem I/O Latency Java 6 removed NFS Server Version 4.1 Names for Network Routes Open Source Software New Versions: MySQL, Puppet, Perl, Python, OpenLDAP Oracle Instant Client 12.2 / 18.3 OpenStack removed
- 20. 20 Solaris 11.4 / Old Hardware Not supported anymore: SPARC Enterprise M3/4/5/8/9000 Sun Fire T1/2000, SPARC T3 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5xx0/T6xx0 Sun Fire X2x00/X4xx0 (with exceptions) Sun Blade X6xx0 / X8xx0 Still supported with Solaris 11.3 (MOS Doc 2382427.1)
- 21. 21 Solaris 11.4 / Continuous Delivery SRU 29 Jan / 2021 CPU Security Fixes SRU 30 Feb / 2021 New Features SRU 31 March / 2021 Bug Fixes SRU 32 April / 2021 CPU Security Fixes No (big) Solaris 11.5 or 11.6 to expect Monthly releases with new features and enhancements Faster delivery
- 22. 22 Solaris 11.4 / Additions in the past months Oracle Solaris Blog https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/ Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Updates (SRU) Index (Doc ID 2433412.1) A new update (SRU) every month. SRU33 May 2021 Mostly OpenSource Security Updates SRU3 – SPECTRE Fix on Intel SRU6 – Oracle Database Sheet on WebUI SRU8 – UCB Libraries re-added SRU12 – Python 3.7 / new ps flags
- 23. 23 Solaris 11.4 / Additions in the past months SRU17 – sstored memory leak fixed SRU18 – ruby 2.1/2.3 removed SRU19 - StatStore Threshold Alarms FMA SRU21 – Mellanox 100Gb Ethernet / Printing Update SRU24 – Samsung 7TB Disk SRU25 – ASR (Auto Service Request) Phone Home SRU25 - lz4 compression utility SRU27 - Zones Sheet on WebUI SRU30 – Ldom 3.6.2 Performance / Python 3.9
- 24. 24 Solaris 11.4 / Kernel Online Updates -bash-5.0$ pkg list ksplice NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO system/ksplice 11.4-11.4.29.0.1.82.3 i-- # pkg set-publisher -g file:///var/tmp/idr4712.1.p5p solaris # pkg install idr4712 Using spliceadm you can verify the installed splices. # spliceadm ID STATE CVE BUGID 471201 applied N/A 32407818 # spliceadm reverse 471201 Splice 471201 reversed successfully on Fri Apr 23 13:15:20. # spliceadm status ID STATE CVE BUGID 471201 not-applied N/A 32407818
- 25. 25 Solaris 11.4 / Challenges (1/5) Failback from S11.4 to S11.3 with Zones S11.4 zone BootEnvs are not recognised by S11.3 and not deleted. Must be done manually SunLDAP → OpenLDAP ldapsearch/ldapmodify API changes data export / import is required http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/2018/04/solaris-114-ldap-changes-for-ldapsearch.html SunSSH → OpenSSH -bash-4.4$ ssh -V Sun_SSH_2.4, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x100020cf -bash-4.4$ ssh -V OpenSSH_7.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2p 14 Aug 2018 https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61025/openssh1.html#OSMSSssh-transition
- 26. 26 Solaris 11.4 / Challenges (2/5) /var/tmp Cleanup before the upgrade. Data will be copied to /var/share. Takes time if large or with many files. WARNING: If you failback to 11.3 and then retry, changed files will NOT be copied again. Workaround Before the Retry: zfs destroy rpool/VARSHARE/tmp Don't upgrade to SRU 29 Bug 32293902 migrate_shared_files.py reflink fails under python3
- 27. 27 Solaris 11.4 / Challenges (3/5) Upgrade to S11.4 with Zones A 'sync-linked' operation failed for child 'zone:v0129' with an unexpected return value of 1 and generated the following output: pkg sync-linked: Package 'network/ipfilter' must be uninstalled or upgraded if the requested operation is to be performed. Reject: pkg://solaris/network/[email protected] Reason: Package network/ipfilter is not installed in global zone. Reason: Excluded by synced parent incorporation 'consolidation/osnet/osnet- incorporation' # zlogin v0129 pkg list setterm NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO system/locale/setterm 0.5.11-0.175.3.0.0.26.2 i-- # pkg list setterm pkg list: No packages matching 'setterm' installed Install Package setterm on the Global Zone. Documented in the Release Notes. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60973/gtafi.html#scrolltoc
- 28. 28 Solaris 11.4 / Challenges (4/5) Upgrade fails if S11.4 Packages are on S11.3 Several IPS packages in Solaris 11.3 are not incorporated by their respective incorporations (Doc ID 2525825.1) root@test-server:~# pkg list | grep 11.4 library/python/pyatspi-27 2.30.0-11.4.0.0.1.9.0 i-r library/python/pyatspi2 2.34.0-11.4.24.0.1.75.1 i-- library/python/pyatspi2-27 2.34.0-11.4.24.0.1.75.1 i-- FIX: pkg update --reject library/python/pyatspi2-27 --reject library/python/pyatspi2 library/python/[email protected]
- 29. 29 Solaris 11.4 / Challenges (5/5) Memory Leak in older sstored Solaris Statistics Store Service Daemon 'sstored' May Consume a Lot of Memory Due to Memory Leaks in the Daemon on a Solaris System Hosting Oracle Database with Solaris Version 11.4.9.5.0 or Later (Doc ID 2596279.1) - Fixed in SRU17 (14 January 2020)
- 30. 30 Summary - Why Solaris 11.4? Stable, longterm Enterprise OS (2034) Secure and stable Containers (Zones) since 2005 Security Compliance integrated Performance/Issues identified with the Solaris Dashboard Oracle Licensing: Only for the CPUs you need JomaSoft: 21 years Experience incl. Product VDCF Migrate now!
- 31. 31 Experiences with Oracle Solaris 11.4 Questions? Marcel Hofstetter [email protected] https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch CEO / Enterprise Consultant JomaSoft GmbH Solaris https://twitter.com/marcel_jomasoft https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.ch https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelhofstetter