Like many others, I am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading/patching solaris. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. The setup The example system we will be using has SVM based mirrored root. Preparation 1. Check the health of all metadatabase replicas (metadbs) and SVM metadevices. # metastat # metastat -c # metadb -i 2. Check the current boot device. # prtconf -vp | grep … [Read more...] about Solaris 10 patching with SVM : Traditional method (non-live upgrade)