Enabling jumbo frames for Sun x8 Quad NIC

You need to enable jumbo frames for Sun x8 Express Quad Gigabit Ethernet Adapter?
For Solaris 10 u4 (aka 8/07) these settings won't help :

• ndd -set /dev/nxge0 accept_jumbo 1
• accept_jumbo = 1; in /kernel/drv/nxge.conf

And this one will do the job :

• set nxge:nxge_jumbo_enable=1 in /etc/system
  
• and add "mtu 8000" to /etc/hostname.nxge0

Thanks to Vitaly for pointing me to this workaround.

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OS Live Upgrade of SunCluster 3.2

We'll start with the good news :

• Solaris 10 u4 is available

• SunCluster 3.2 supports Live Upgrade

What does it mean? Now it's possible to upgrade the OS version of the cluster nodes without interruption of running services. The prerequisites are: the cluster version is 3.2, it's not a single-node cluster and the nodes are running Solaris 10.

Let's do it step-by-step:

1. Create a new BE (Boot Environment)

      lucreate -c s10u3 -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3:ufs -n s10u4

2. Upgrade the new BE

      luupgrade -u -n s10u4 -s /net/myserver/s10u4

3. Activate the upgraded BE

      eeprom diag-switch?=false (for SPARC only)

      luactivate s10u4

4. Switchover the Resource Groups and reboot the cluster node

      clrg switch -n node2 rg1

      ...

      clrg switch -n node2 rgN

      init 6

5. Proceed steps 1-3 on the second, third, etc. nodes

Congratilations! We're done:

# cat /etc/release
                   Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
       Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                    Use is subject to license terms.
                        Assembled 16 August 2007

luactivate and EEPROM

luactivate doesn't change the eeprom(1M) boot-device value if the diag-switch? is set to true in PROM

Sun Cluster 3.2 Documentation Center

This page contains links to commonly referenced information in the Sun Cluster 3.2 documentation collection.

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# pkginfo
<...>
system      JAVAjaf                          Java Activation Framework
JAI         JAVAjai-imageio                  Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools
system      JAVAjato                         Java Studio Enterprise Web Application Framework
system      JAVAjatodmo                      Java Studio Enterprise Web Application Framework Sample Application
system      JAVAjatodoc                      Java Studio Enterprise Web Application Framework Sample Documentation
application JAVAjavadb-client                Java DB client
application JAVAjavadb-common                Java DB common files
application JAVAjavadb-core                  Java DB core
application JAVAjavadb-demo                  Java DB demo
application JAVAjavadb-docs                  Java DB documentation
application JAVAjavadb-javadoc               Java DB javadoc
system      JAVAjaxp                         Java API for XML Parsing 1.2
<...>

SC 3.2: first zpool, then quorum

Don't add a configured quorum device to zpool.
Add the quorum after "zpool create/add".