Solaris 11.4.78 / iostat -b and wildcards

If you are using Kernel Zones

-bash-5.2$ zoneadm list -v
  ID NAME             STATUS      PATH                         BRAND      IP
   0 global           running     /                            solaris    shared
   1 v0182            running     -                            solaris-kz excl

It is now easier on the global zone to analyze
the I/O of only the disks used by kernel zones

using the wildcard (v0182*) and the new -b (backend) flag

-bash-5.2$ iostat -xnzb -Td v0182* 5 3
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  7:58:29 AM EDT
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
   0.3    7.5   18.2   53.7  0.0  0.0    0.0    1.7   0   0 v0182/disk1
   0.0    0.0    0.0    9.3  0.0  0.0    0.0    5.1   0   0 v0182/disk2
   0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.2   0   0 v0182/disk3
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  7:58:34 AM EDT
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
   0.6   14.4   25.8   68.4  0.0  0.0    0.0    1.8   0   1 v0182/disk1
   0.4   68.2    0.3 58301.9  0.0  0.4    0.0    6.5   0  24 v0182/disk2
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  7:58:39 AM EDT
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
  11.0    0.0   37.1    0.0  0.0  0.0    0.0    0.3   0   0 v0182/disk1
   0.0   87.2    0.0 52939.6  0.0  0.4    0.0    5.1   0  22 v0182/disk2


And we have similar output on control domains for disks
used in logical domains (Ldoms) on SPARC servers.

-bash-5.2$ iostat -znxMb -T d vds* 5 5
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  2:20:19 PM CEST
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
 356.5  120.3   16.7   11.1  0.0  0.3    0.0    0.7   0   8 60002AC000000000000004320001507B@primary-vds0
 187.3    5.1   10.2    0.1  0.0  0.1    0.0    0.5   0   9 60002AC0000000000000048F0001507B@primary-vds0
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  2:20:24 PM CEST
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
 135.2  195.0   80.3  118.0  0.0  0.9    0.0    2.8   0  50 60002AC000000000000004320001507B@primary-vds0
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  2:20:29 PM CEST
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
 178.6  275.6  115.6  103.2  0.0  1.1    0.0    2.3   0  55 60002AC000000000000004320001507B@primary-vds0
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  2:20:34 PM CEST
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
 236.6  306.4  100.2  109.9  0.0  1.1    0.0    2.1   0  61 60002AC000000000000004320001507B@primary-vds0
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at  2:20:39 PM CEST
                    extended device statistics
    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
 196.2  282.0   95.4  117.2  0.0  1.1    0.0    2.4   0  60 60002AC000000000000004320001507B@primary-vds0

Oracle Systems TechDay 13.05.2025 in Prague

Tuesday, May 13th 2025

Onsite event in Prague, Czech Republic

About
- Oracle Systems/Server/SPARC/ZFS/Solaris
- AI, Cloud
- Hybrid Storage
- Secure Desktop

As usual Oracle Product Managers, Engineering and JomaSoft
are there.

Registration at:
https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x912115abcd

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU78 (Feb 2025)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

ldm list-domain -s
iostat -b and wildcards
faster utilities, because they use Python 3.11 now

FOSS: Python 3.13, MySQL 8.4, Ruby 3.3
EOF: Python 3.9

 

system-repository SMF access_log cleanup

The system-repository SMF delivers IPS packages to zones.

This SMF produces an access_log file which is not rotated
by default. If you run many zones this logfile grows
to multiple 100 MB. On a customer system with more
than 20 zones this file was over 3 GB in size.

This is a sample on one of our test systems

# ls -lh /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 pkg5srv  bin         148M Jan  8 10:52 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log

You can manually rotate and compress this logfile using
the following command

# time logadm -c -z 0 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log

real    0m4.989s
user    0m4.164s
sys     0m0.815s

# ls -lh /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log*
-rw-r--r--   1 pkg5srv  bin            0 Jan  8 10:54 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 pkg5srv  bin        26.7M Jan  8 10:52 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log.0.gz

JomaSoft provides OpenJDK17 package for Solaris 11.4 SPARC

Since two years JomaSoft produces Solaris 11.4 IPS packages
of opensource software. After postgres now openjdk was added.

Based on the work done by Peter Tribble. Thanks Peter!
https://github.com/ptribble/jdk-sunos-builder

Download Page
https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-openjdk

Direct p5p Download Link
https://bit.ly/js-openjdk17-sparc

The package is provided without support or warranty.
Use at your own risk.

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU75 (Nov 2024)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

zfs mount/unmount -r
pgrep/pkill -Z
cups SMF disabled by default

FOSS: gcc14
EOF: snort, Node.js 18

 

OVM SPARC Agent End of Life

Extended Support for the OV Manager SPARC Agent ended by June 2024.
No patches are provided by Oracle anymore.

It is expected OVM SPARC Agent will not work anymore in 2025,
after old insecure components will be removed from Solaris.

Details in MOS DOC:
OVM : SPARC Solaris Support in OVM Environment After The End of OVM Extended Support. (Doc ID 3041724.1)

With JomaSoft VDCF we offer a complete and easy to use CLI solution to deploy, operate
and monitor Solaris SPARC LDoms.

WebCasts, Documentation and a Free Trial Version is available on
https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/