1. Shutdown and take a complete backup of the WLS environment.

The Startup/Shutdown scripts are placed in $WLS_HOME/user_projects/domains/<domain_name>/bin

2. The Oracle Smart Update Tool is located at  “$WLS_HOME/utils/bsu“

3. Launch the the Oracle Smart Update Tool :

4. Once logged in, you will be presented with Oracle Smart Update Dialog.

5.  You can choose to “Register for security updates”, this is usually helpful to keep yourself updated with the latest security updates and product expiration.

6.  Click the “Get Patches” tab to see the latest patches available.

7. On the left pane you would see   Weblogic Servers installed  and on the right pane you will see two tabs. “Get Patches” and “Manage Patches” and a section to show the downloaded patches.

8. Now select the patches and hit the “Download Selected” button, you will be prompted if you wish to to validate and resolve conflicts.

9.  The Validation completes with the following message:

10.  Click “OK” to proceed downloading the patches.

11. Once the patches are downloaded and click the “Manage Patches” tab to proceed with the patch application. In the “Downloaded Patches” section you will notice the patches downloaded, click the “up” arrow to apply the patch

12. You will be prompted with couple of prompts for you to take action:

Click “OK” to proceed

13.  Once more the validation is done, click “OK” to proceed

14.  One more “Are you sure?” prompt, annoying I know . Click “Proceed” to apply the patch

15. Once the patch is applied you’d see the patch in the Applied Patches “Default” tab

Thats it the patch is now applied. If you face any issues its worth investigating the server logs.

Oracle provides 3 methods to convert non-RAC single instance database to RAC databases:

1. DBCA
2. rconfig
3. Enterprise Manager

All the 3 have their own benefits and can be used to suit one’s needs. My recent work involved the conversion of non-RAC single instance database to RAC database using rconfig, although I’ve tested all the 3 methods but concluded on rconfig.

Pre-requisites:

1. Configure Shared Storage setup ASM, NFS (NAS) or clustered storage.

• For ASM, refer to Oracle Database Storage Administrator’s Guide11g Release 2 (11.2)
• For configuring shared storage, refer to Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) (Linux)
• See also Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2)

2. A clustered Grid Infrastructure install with at least one Scan listener address. See

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) Linux

3.  rconfig imposes a restriction on the choice of listener. The listener must be the default listener, and it must run from the Grid Infrastructure home.

srvctl add listener -p 1522

After conversion, you can reconfigure the listener as required.

4.  Install Clustered Oracle Database Software as per documentation, this can be done by choosing the right configuration option. Refer to :

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10813/racinstl.htm#BABJGBHB

I’ve installed the new 11gR2 clustered ORACLE_HOME at

/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_2

on both the nodes orarac01 and orarac02

Converting Single Instance Database using rconfig

1. As an “oracle” OS user navigate to

$ORACLE_HOME/assistants/rconfig/sampleXMLs

2. Open the sample file ConvertToRAC_AdminManaged.xml using a text editor such as vi. This XML sample file contains comment lines that provide instructions on how to edit the file to suit your site’s specific needs.

3.  Ensure you edit the xml with convert verify="ONLY"
The following are the sample entries:

<!--Specify current OracleHome of non-rac database for SourceDBHome -->
 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
<!--Specify OracleHome where the rac database should be configured. It can be same as SourceDBHome -->
 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_2
<!--Specify SID of non-rac database and credential. User with sysdba role is required to perform conversion -->

...

<!--Specify the list of nodes that should have rac instances running for the Admin Managed Cluster Database. LocalNode should  be the first node in this nodelist. -->

...

<!--Specify Database Area Location to be configured for rac database.If this field is left empty, current storage will be use d for rac database. For CFS, this field will have directory path. -->
 +DATA

4.  Move the spfile to the shared location, in this case the Single Instance Database was hosted on file system, in this process we will move the datafiles from file system storage to ASM.

So create spfile in the shared disk location

SQL>create spfile='+DATA/TEST/spfiletest.ora' from pfile;

You can check if the file is created through “asmcmd”

5. Take a backup of existing $SOURCE_ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initTEST.ora, and create a new $SOURCE_ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initTEST.ora with the following parameter:

spfile='+DATA/TEST/spfiletest.ora'

6. Restart the Database

7. Now lets test if “rconfig” is ready for conversion, navigate to $ORACLE_HOME/bin and issue the following command

$./rconfig $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/rconfig/sampleXMLs/ConvertToRAC_AdminManaged.xml

The above command validates( as we’ve set convert=”ONLY”) if rconfig is ready for conversion. If the output throws any error, diagnose and troubleshoot to fix the issue. Refer to the following output for successful validation:

...

 Operation Succeeded

There is no return value for this step

..

8. Now are we are ready for conversion, edit the xml file “ConvertToRAC_AdminManaged.xml” and change:

from:

..
 <n:Convert verify="ONLY">
..

to

..
 <n:Convert verify="YES">
..

9. Perform the conversion

$./rconfig $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/rconfig/sampleXMLs/ConvertToRAC_AdminManaged.xml

The conversion will take some time to complete. The progress can be monitored from the logs located at $ORACLE_BASE/cfgtoollogs/rconfig

10. Once the conversion is complete you’d get a similar message in step 7.

11. Perform sanity checks and tweak the listener to suit your needs.

That sums up the procedure to convert Single Instance Oracle Database to RAC database. Please do share your thoughts and comments.

Reference:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e17214/cvrt2rac.htm#BABGGEGJ

Here are the steps to install and perform a basic configuration for WebLogic Server.

Software

1. Download Weblogic Server from the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/fmw_11_download.html

2. Review documentation to meet the basic hardware and software requirements:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/doc.1111/e14142/toc.htm

Installation

1. I’ve created an operating user “oracle” to own the WebLogic Server, so as a “root” Super User do the following:

#groupadd dba
#useradd -g dba oracle
#mkdir -p /u01/oracle/middleware
#chown -Rh oracle:dba /u01/oracle/middleware
#xhost +

2. Now login as “oracle” and invoke the installer (I’ve downloaded the installer at /u01/dumps) as seen below. Click “Next”

3. Enter the location for Middle Ware Home and click “Next”

4.  Register for Security Updates if you wish to and click “Next”

5. Choose Install Type, I’ve chosen “Custom” and click “Next”

6. Choose “Products and Components”  you wish to use and click “Next”

7. If you have previous JDK/JRockit SDK, you can choose to browse the path, although Oracle recommends that you download the latest JRockit SDK to use with WebLogic. You can download the latest JRockit from:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jrockit/index.html

8.  Choose “Product Installation Directories” and click “Next”

9. Review the Installation Summary and click “Next”

10. Once the installation completes, the “Run QuickStart” is checked. We’ll launch the QuickStart by clicking “Done”

11. Once clicked “Done”, You will be presented with the following which lets you choose 3 Options, We’ll go ahead with the 1st  to proceed with the configuration wizard.

Configuration

12. Now in the configuration wizard, we’ll choose “Create New WebLogic Domain” and click “Next”

13. Choose the defaults, I’ve also chosen “WebLogic Advanced Web Services Extension” from the following screen, click “Next” to proceed

14.  Now enter the Domain Name and Enter the Domain Location, click “Next” to proceed:

15.  Configure the WebLogic Administrator and Password, click “Next” to proceed.

16. As this is a basic install and for development purposes, I will choose the “Domain Startup Mode” as “Development. Careful consideration should be taken for production deployment. Click “Next” to proceed

17.  Select the Optional Configuration , I’ve selected the following options(we can configure JMS at a later stage):

18.  Configure the Admin Server:

19. Configure the Managed servers and click “Next”

20.  Next screen asks you if you wish to configure cluster, I did not configure any cluster. Click “Next” to proceed.

21. Next Screen is Configure Machines, I’ve not configured any. Click ” Next” to proceed

22. Configure Target Services to Clusters or Servers, review and click “Next” to proceed

23.  Review the Configuration Summary and click “Create”

24.  Click “Done” to finish and close the quickstart screen.

Now that we have installed and configured the WebLogic server, lets start the WebLogic server for the domain we configured. The startup scripts are placed in the user_projects directory for the domain we configured.

25.  Start the WebLogic Server

[oracle@oralin03 zakkiahmed.com]$ cd
[oracle@oralin03 ~]$ cd /u01/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/zakkiahmed.com
[oracle@oralin03 zakkiahmed.com]$ ls
autodeploy            init-info                        startWebLogic.sh
bin                   lib                              WseeFileStore
config                security                         WseeFileStoreAdminServer
console-ext           servers
fileRealm.properties  startManagedWebLogic_readme.txt
[oracle@oralin03 zakkiahmed.com]$./startWebLogic.sh

Now that the WebLogic Server is started lets login to the console

26. In to order login to the console open the web browser , the URL will be of the following format:

http://<hostname>.<domain name>:7001/console

In my case it will be

http://oralin03.zakkiahmed.com:7001/console

You will be presented with the following screen:

The user name is “weblogic” and the password is what you configured during the configuration.

27. You will be presented with a neat front page, navigate to check the state of services on the left panel, follow the screenshot:

Thats it folks, the installation and basic configuration of WebLogic Server is complete. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts.

Thanks for reading.

I have CentOS 5 X86_64 installed on my server and after researching for quite sometime I came across a tool which could do my job effortlessly . The tool is called SystemRescueCD. Although this tool provides great amount of features, I will share the one’s which helped me backup and restore the system.

I’ve divided this tutorial in two parts, PART-1 is addressed to backup linux root partition and PART-2 will address on how to restore  your OS in the event of a disk failure or for any reason you’d require to restore your OS. This is just one of many ways to take backup of an OS, you can find the whole list of softwares to suit your needs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backup_software.

Creation of SysRescueCD or USB

You can create a rescue cd from the ISO, The ISO can be downloaded from here . Alternatively you create a bootable USB stick using theISO(instructions below). I decided to go with the USB bootable stick. Heres the procedure I followed on Windows XP:

1. Mount the SysRescueCD ISO using Magic ISO/PowerISO/Daemon-tools or any emulation software of your choice.
2. Insert the USB and Find the drive letter, in my case its K:
3. Format the USB stick as FAT(NTFS wont work) , please see the screenshot.

4. Copy Files from SysRescueCD to USB stick(K:):

• Once the USB stick is formatted, copy the files from the SysRescueCD to the root of USB stick.
• Rename folder isolinux to syslinux in K:

• Go to K:syslinux folder, rename the file isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg

5. Make USB stick(K:) bootable

• Go to K:bootprog and unzip syslinux-3.85.zip(This would change for newer versions of sysrescuecd).
• Open command prompt and change location to K:bootprogwin32
• Run the following command to make the USB bootable:

syslinux -ma K:

-m means write mbr

-a means make drive partition active (aka bootable).

• Your USB stick is now bootable and ready to be used to take backups.

Booting SysRescueCD  using USB

1. Ensure “Removable Devices” is set as the first priority in your bios settings.

2. Shutdown the Linux Host and boot with using the USB bootable stick we created earlier.

3. You will be presented with the following screen:

4. Choose the first option and press return key.

5. Once the boot process is complete, you will be presented with the following screen.

As you can see from the above, you are given many options to connect to this console. Now lets proceed with the backup.

Performing Backup

SysRescueCD gives you majorly two options to backup the file systems.

• fsarchiver
• partimage

In this tutorial I will use fsarchiver.

The following is the file system layout, In this scenario I will take a backup of the OS on /backup partition which is a separate hard disk dedicated to take backups.

[root@oralin05 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
7.7G  2.7G  4.6G  37% /
/dev/sda1              99M   12M   82M  13% /boot
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1             7.9G  147M  7.4G   2% /backup
[root@oralin05 ~]#

As you can see /dev/sda holds the root & boot partition and /dev/sdb is used for backups. If you would like to take tape backups, it will be /dev/rmt[n]

1. Mount the directory you would like to take the backup:

root@sysresccd /root % mkdir /backup
root@sysresccd /root % mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
root@sysresccd /root % df -h | grep /backup
/dev/sdb1             7.9G  147M  7.4G   2% /backup
root@sysresccd /root %

2. Backup Master Boot Record(MBR)

root@sysresccd /root % dd if=/dev/sda of=/backup/sda-MBR-backup bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00573138 s, 89.3 kB/s
root@sysresccd /root %

3. Backup “/boot” and LVM hosting “/” root partition
The following command is used to take the backup:

#fsarchiver -v savefs /backup/backup-sda.fsa /dev/sda1 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

Deciphering the above command:
-v is verbose
savefs is Save File System
/backup/backup-sda.fsa is the file which holds the backup followed by the partitions we need to backup.

The backup finishes with the following status:

Statistics for filesystem 1
* files successfully processed:....regfiles=104377, directories=11189, symlinks=12825, hardlinks=3975, specials=10
* files with errors:...............regfiles=0, directories=0, symlinks=0, hardlinks=0, specials=0

4. Once backup is complete, you can verify the backup using the following command:

#fsarchiver archinfo /backup/backup-sda.fsa
root@sysresccd /backup % fsarchiver archinfo /backup/backup-sda.fsa
====================== archive information ======================
Archive type:                   filesystems
Filesystems count:              2
Archive id:                     4be3d087
Archive file format:            FsArCh_002
Archive created with:           0.6.8
Archive creation date:          2010-05-14_15-24-41
Archive label:                  <none>
Minimum fsarchiver version:     0.6.4.0
Compression level:              3 (gzip level 6)
Encryption algorithm:           none

===================== filesystem information ====================
Filesystem id in archive:       0
Filesystem format:              ext3
Filesystem label:               /boot
Filesystem uuid:                3124fbdf-4ae8-4557-9037-45501865b6c8
Original device:                /dev/sda1
Original filesystem size:       98.72 MB (103512064 bytes)
Space used in filesystem:       11.83 MB (12401664 bytes)

===================== filesystem information ====================
Filesystem id in archive:       1
Filesystem format:              ext3
Filesystem label:
Filesystem uuid:                ede651ef-3d19-4d4d-9e65-a2e72672d492
Original device:                /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
Original filesystem size:       7.63 GB (8190885888 bytes)
Space used in filesystem:       2.65 GB (2847793152 bytes)

root@sysresccd /backup %

5. Backup the partition table information, this is required to restore the non-root partitions if you have any on your server.

#sfdisk -d /dev/sda /backup/sda-part-table.sf

This is a text file, you can read the contents of this file.

That concludes the PART-1 of taking the backup of Linux Operating System using SysRescueCD.

I will post the PART-2 shortly …

fsarchiver archinfo /backup/backup-sda.fsa

Thist post is about installation of Oracle 10g R2 on Solaris 10. If you wish to install Solaris 10 on VMware heres the link.
Having installed Oracle 10g and various other releases as a part of project implementations/upgrade on various environments thought it’d be a good idea to spread the knowledge .
I have installed Oracle 10g R2 on the Solaris 10 VM I created last week(see my earliar post).

So.. Lets get started..

Software:

Database: Oracle Database 10g R2

Pre-Installation Tasks

1. Determine the physical RAM size:

# /usr/sbin/prtconf | grep "Memory size"

Memory size: 1024 Megabytes

#

2. To determine the size of the configured swap space, enter the following command:

# /usr/sbin/swap -s

total: 360448k bytes allocated + 72480k reserved = 432928k used, 1335996k available

#

3. Ensure /tmp has atleast 400MB, you can set different “temp” location by setting the environment variables “TMP” and “TMPDIR”

# df -k /tmp

4. Ensure there is enough disk space to install Oracle Software and Create starter database:

# df -h /ora10g
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6      7.9G   8.0M   7.8G     1%    /ora10g
#

5. Determine the System Architecture

# isainfo -kv
64-bit amd64 kernel modules
#

6. Check Software Requirements

# pkginfo -i SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWsprot \
 SUNWtoo SUNWi1of SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs SUNWxwfnt
system      SUNWarc   Lint Libraries (usr)
system      SUNWbtool CCS tools bundled with SunOS
system      SUNWhea   SunOS Header Files
system      SUNWi15cs X11 ISO8859-15 Codeset Support
system      SUNWi1cs  X11 ISO8859-1 Codeset Support
system      SUNWi1of  ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) Optional Fonts
system      SUNWlibm  Math & Microtasking Library Headers & Lint Files (Usr)
system      SUNWlibms Math & Microtasking Libraries (Usr)
system      SUNWsprot Solaris Bundled tools
system      SUNWtoo   Programming Tools
system      SUNWxwfnt X Window System platform required fonts
#

If you do not find any patches installed, use the following command to add the packages:

#pkgadd -d /cdrom/sol_10_1106_x86/Solaris_10/Product <Package Name>

7. Hostname / Domain Name Checks:

If you use DNS:

#cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep hosts

In this case I did not use DNS, so I’d do the following:

# hostname
orasun02
# domainname
XYZ.com
# cat /etc/hosts | grep `eval hostname`
192.168.1.106   orasun02.XYZ.com         orasun02        loghost
#

8. Creating Oracle User and Groups

• Create Oracle Inventory Group(oinstall) 

   # /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall

• Create OSDBA group (dba)

  # /usr/sbin/groupadd dba

• Create Project Group

  # projadd group.dba
  # projects -l group.dba
  group.dba
   projid : 101
   comment: ""
   users  : (none)
   groups : (none)
   attribs:
  #

• Add resources to project “group.dba”

  #projmod -sK "project.max-shm-memory=(privileged,2G,deny)" group.dba
  #projmod -sK "project.max-sem-ids=(privileged,100,deny)" group.dba
  #projmod -sK "project.max-shm-ids=(privileged,100,deny)" group.dba
  #projmod -sK "project.max-sem-nsems=(privileged,256,deny)" group.dba

• Create “oracle” user

  #useradd -g oinstall -G dba -m -d /export/home/oracle -s /bin/ksh -K project=group.dba oracle

• Set the password of the oracle user:

  # passwd -r files oracle

• Verify user “nobody” exists:

  # id nobody
  uid=60001(nobody) gid=60001(nobody)
  #

9. Creating Directories

#mkdir -p /ora10g/oracle/
#chown -Rh oracle:oinstall /ora10g/oracle
#chmod -R 755 /ora10g/oracle

10. Login to user “oracle” and edit “.profile” to set ORACLE_BASE,ORACLE_HOME,etc

# Oracle Settings
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR
ORACLE_BASE=/ora10g/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=ORCL; export ORACLE_SID
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH

Installation

• Allow user “oracle” to use the display(Here I assume you’d be using Xterm like Xorg/XSun/vncserver/etc, so login as “root” and issue the following command:

  #/usr/openwin/bin/xhost +

  Ensure the display is working for user “oracle”

  # su - oracle
  $DISPLAY=orasun02:0.0
  $export DISPLAY
  $/usr/bin/xclock
  $

  

• Unpack the Oracle 10g Software:

  #unzip -o 10201_database_solx86_64.zip
  

• Invoke “runInstaller”

  # ./runInstaller
  

• Select Installation Method, I have chosen “Advanced Installation” and click “Next”



• Select Installation Type, I have chosen “Enterprise Edition”, Click “Next” to proceed further
• Specify Oracle Home details, this is already picked up as we specified in .profile, confirm if its right , alternatively change as desired. Click “Next” to continue
• Now Oracle does Product Specific Pre-requisite Checks, if you see it failed with 2 warnings and if you notice we have not set the kernel parameters shown in the sceenshot. This is fine as in Solaris 10 the resources are managed through the resource control, as we have configured in step 8.
• Select Configuration Option, Choose radio button “Create Database” and click “Next”
• Select Database Configuration , choose “General Purpose Database” and click “Next”
• Specify Database Configuration Options,  the screen look similar to as below screenshot, and click “Next”
• Select Database Management Option, click “Next”
• Specify database storage option, should like the screenshot below, click “Next” to continue
• I have chosen not to enable automated backups, Click “Next”
• Specify Database Schema Passwords and click “Next”
• Finally.. click “Install” to start the installation.
• After the installation finishes and starter database is created, Execute the configuration scripts, show in the below screenshot

  From the terminal execute the “root.sh” as user “root”:

  # /ora10g/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/root.sh
  Running Oracle10 root.sh script...
  
  The following environment variables are set as:
      ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
      ORACLE_HOME=  /ora10g/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
  
  Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:
     Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ...
     Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
     Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
  
  Entries will be added to the /var/opt/oracle/oratab file as needed by
  Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
  Finished running generic part of root.sh script.
  Now product-specific root actions will be performed.
  #
  

  Then go back to Oracle Universal Installer screen and click “OK”

• Thats it , its the end of installation and your database should be up and running.
• Lets login to the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

I tried to document the step by step procedure while accomplishing this task.

So…Lets get started…

Setup

• Host OS: CentOS 5- 64 bit
• Guest OS: Solaris 10 -  11/06
• VMware Version: VMware Server 1.0.4 Build 56528

Creating VM

Once you have VMware server installed, invoke VMware server and do the following:

1. Create New Virtual Machine by selecting File -> New -> Virtual Machine.



2. Click “Next”, Virtual Machine Configuration -> Custom
3. Guest Operating System “Solaris 10 64-bit” 
4. Name the Virtual Machine whatever you feel like, I named it “orasun01″ and click “Next”
5. “Number of processors ” choose “One” and click “Next”
6. Access Rights, Uncheck “Make this Virtual Machine Private” and click “Next”
7. Allocate Memory to the VM, I have given 1024M. Click “Next”
8. Network Connection , choose “Bridged Networking” and click “Next”.
9. Create New Virtual Disk and click “Next”
10. Virtual Disk Type, select “SCSI” and click “Next
11. Specify Disk Capacity, Choose 10.0 GB and uncheck “Allocate Disk Space Now” and  Click “Next”.
12. Specify Disk File Name, name it differently if you wish or leave it as it is and click “Finish”.
13. 

So your VM should look like this:

Source Solaris 10 ISO during boot up

Source Solaris 10 ISO image to be read on boot up, this can be done by clicking:

Edit Virtual Machine -> select “CDROM” ->  Click radio button “use ISO image” -> give the location of the Solaris 10 downloaded ISO image. Then click “OK”

From the above we have configured the VM to install Solaris 10. Lets start installing Solaris 10…

Installation of Solaris 10

1. “Power On” the Virtual Machine and you should see the “Grub Menu” Select “Solaris” from the menu and press enter/return key.
2. Choose “Solaris Interactive (default)” from the menu and press enter/return key.
3. Select Language , I have chosen “English”
4. Click “Next”
5. Select the radio button “Networked” and click “Next”
6. This section lets you enable  DHCP, I have chosen not to select DHCP. I feel it is best to assign ip manually , gives you more control ..:)
7. Enter the hostname and click “Next”
8. Enter Ip address, ensure this ip is free and not used by any other system.
9. Enter “NetMask”, I have selected it default value which was automatically picked up.
10. Select “Yes” if you like to enable IPv6,
11. Select “Default Route”, I have selected “none” as this can be defined at later point in time.
12. Select “No” if you do not intend to use Kerberos Security.
13. Select your desired “Name Service”, I have selected “None”
14. Select “Time Zone”, I chose the radio button “Geographic Continent/Country/Region”
15. Select your relevant country
16. Confirm “Date and Time” and click “Next”
17. Enter “root” password and click “Next”
18. Select “Yes” if you wish to Enable Remote Services and click “Next”
19. Confirm the “Summary” and proceed to next section by clicking “Confirm“
20. Click “Next” to go to the next tasks of Installation
21. In the “Installer Options” click the radio button “No” for Reboot automatically after installation and “No” for “Eject CD/DVD after Software Installation” and click “Next”
22. A Notice will pop up to you should also eject the CD/DVD. Click “OK” to continue.
23. Specify Media, click radio button “CD/DVD” and click “Next” to continue
24. Accept the “License” and click “Next”
25. Select “Type of Install”, choose “Custom Install” radio button and click “Next”. You can select “Default” if you like to.
26. Select “Software Localization” specific to your country and click “Next”.
27. Select “System Locale” specific to your country.
28. Select “Extra Value Software Software” and click “Next”.
29. Select “None” for “Web Start Ready product scan location“
30. Click “Next”, I made no changes and accepted the defaults.
31. Confirm the disks are selected and click “Next”.
32. Select fdisk Partitions to be customized, check mark the displayed disk and click “Next”
33. Confirm the values and click “Next”.
34. Layout File Systems, Highlight “c1t0d0″ disk and click “Modify” to reflect the following values
35. And Finally click “Install Now” which will begin the installation.The installation will take sometime to finish.
36. Click “Reboot Now”  
37. Login using “SUN Console Login”
38. You can use either “Java Desktop System” or “CDE”
39. The installation is Complete, Solaris 10 Fresh Install is ready to be used.

Finally you might want to configure internet to your Solaris 10 VM, to do this do the following:

1. If not already created, create file “/etc/defaultrouter” and enter your routers ip address
2. If not already created, create file “/etc/resolv.conf” and enter the following:

   search  domainname
   nameserver  default router address
   

3. copy /etc/nsswitch.dns to /etc/nsswitch.conf
4. Restart the network by issuing the following command:

   #svcadm restart /network/dns/client
   

5. Check the routing table and confirm the network is using the new sttings:

   #netstat -r
   

   If not then add the default route by:

   #route add default <gateway>
   

6. Thats it you should be able to connect to the internet.

   #ping google.com
   google.com is alive
   #