Many of the Solaris beginners will be wondering that how to install Solaris 11.Here you go with step by step guide.There is no much difference compare to Solaris 10 Using DVD/CD installation method and you need to answer very less questions. Solaris 11 won’t ask you to select the filesystem types like UFS or ZFS since UFS root filesystem will be no longer supported on this version.Since Solaris 11 root filesystem is ZFS,it has great advantage in OS patching using Liveupgrade method. Another important feature over Solaris 10 is that you can have ISCSI disks as root disk. Solaris 11 has many advantages over Solaris 10 and will see those in upcoming days.Here i would like share the screen shots of Solaris 11 installation.
Install Solaris On Virtualbox
Now you would see some networks that are already present in the editor. Remove all the networks first. After you have removed all the networks click on the add button to add new network.
We would select VMnet0 as our first network (192.168.1.0/24).Select the settings as shown below with Host-only network and the Subnet IP 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0.Now similarly create another network 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0 with exactly same settings as above (only the subnet IP will be 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0). Once you have created the 2 network you should see them as shown below.Now open up the VMware workstation and click on Create a New Virtual Machine icon in home.Select a typical installation methodSelect the iso image of solaris 10.Name the first virtual machine as geek01. In case you want to change the location of this VM you can do so here.Set the Size of the root disk for this VM as 16 GB and tick the option “store virtual machine as single file”On the next screen click on the Customize HardwareSet the memory of the Virtual Machine around 1.5 GB. Now you can also set it around 1 GB if you have less RAM in your host machine.Remove unnecessary hardware like floppy drive and sound card.Use the network we created for OS in the beginning of this post, VMnet0 for the first network card.
We will assign the OS IP 192.168.1.11 to this NIC card.Now we will add 2 more NIC cards for the LLT interconnects. We will be using Host-only type NIC cards for the LLTs as these NIC cards will only be used in the inter-communication of these 2 VMs.Select Host-Only network for this NIC and make sure the option “Connect on power on” is selected. Similarly add one more NIC card with exactly same settings as LLT.We will now add a NIC card for connecting to the openfiler storage. Click on add to and select custom network connection. Select the network VMnet1 which is for created for the openfiler storage with Subnet 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0. This network will have an IP address 10.10.10.11Now you should see all the 4 network cards in the hadware configuration of the Virtual machine.All Right, we are up with configuring our first Solaris VM and we can now start installing it.Boot up the Virtual Machine to start installing solaris. On the first screen select Oracle Solaris.Select the option 1 to start Oracle solaris 10 installation in an interactive mode.
The installer will start the interactive installation with identifying the hardware configuration of the VM.Select the Keyboard layout as US-English.If you have assigned sufficient amount of memory to VM, then the graphical installation would start. Else you will have to do a normal non-graphical installation.Select Networked as the network connectivity setting.Now you should see the 4 NIC cards which we added in the beginning of this post. # svcadm refresh ssh Cloning the Virtual machineNow you can either create a new virtual machine and do everything we did above all over again or clone the existing solaris 10 virtual machine and do a sys-unconfig to simply change the hostname and IP address of the solaris 10 VM. Cloning the existing VM to create the node 2 of the LAB setup will save our time.To start cloning select the VM and go to VM Manage CloneCloning wizard will start. Click Next.Select the default option of “clone from current state of the VM”We would create a full clone in order to have an independent virtual machine.Set the name of the virtual machine name as geek02 and set the location to store the vmdk files.The final configuration of the two virtual machines would look as shown below.Configuring passwordless sshAs a requirement of VCS installation we need to configure a passwordless ssh for root user for the 2 solaris VMs. Perform below steps serially on respective nodes.
Step 1: Generate rsa keys on geek01 and geek02Generate rsa keys for both nodes with default settings, and empty passphrase. Geek01# ifconfig -alo0: flags= mtu 8232 index 1inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff0g0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2inet 192.168.1.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255ether 0:c:29:99:e1:6ee1000g3: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 3inet 10.10.10.11 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255ether 0:c:29:99:e1:8cSimilarly configure the IP 10.10.10.12 on the second node geek02 for it to connect to the shared storage.Okay. We are good to go with the 2 Solaris 10 VMs up and running. Now we can configure the VM for the shared storage.