New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU84 (Aug 2025)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

format -r / -n / -q
Threshold alerts for /tmp usage
Improved nscd resilience

FOSS: OpenSSH 10, sudo 1.9.17p1
EOF: Ruby 3.1, PHP 8.1

Oracle ASR Manager manual update

In the past the Oracle ASR Manager did update itself
automatically. This is not the case anymore with newer
releases.

But the manual update on Solaris is very easy.
Only two commands required

pkgrm asrmanager

pkgadd -d ./asrmanager-25.1.0-20250306063253.pkg


Learn more about Oracle ASR on
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37710_01/index.htm

 

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU81 (May 2025)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

GRUB 2.12
Zone Migration requires NTP
ipadm set-ifprop -p send-unreachables
dladm show-transceiver
s10 brand compressed install archives
ldm set-logctl =func =v (verbosity)

OVM Manager SPARC Agent does not work anymore

FOSS: PHP 8.4
EOF: OpenSSL 1.0.2, Ruby 3.1, GCC 7, stackdb SMF

More details on the Solaris Blog

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

BugFix: User with UP can't login anymore and no sudo and cronjobs

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