Reduced System Downtime

Solaris Live Upgrade significantly reduces the downtime associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance. It enables the Solaris 10, 9, 8, 7, and 2.6 Operating Systems to continue to run while an administrator upgrades to the latest release of the Operating System, applies patches or does routine maintenance on the inactive or duplicate boot environment. When satisfied with the process, the administrator simply reboots the system to run the latest or updated operating environment.

  • Solaris Live Upgrade technology reduces the usual service outage typically associated with an operating system upgrade.
  • Solaris Live Upgrade enables Solaris 10, 9, 8, 7, and 2.6 Operating Systems to continue to run normally while an administrator upgrades or performs normal maintenance on an inactive boot environment.
  • Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0 integration with Web Start Flash technology enables system administrators to install a complete pre-tested, pre-configured system image rapidly on a new inactive boot environment while the production boot environment is fully operational.
  • Solaris Live Upgrade supports fallback to previous environment in case of failure with the upgraded environment. Administrators can reload their previous environments and with a simple reboot if necessary.
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Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0 for the Solaris 8 07/01 and earlier, 7 and 2.6 Operating Environments, SPARC[R] and Intel Platform Editions. For the Solaris 9 and 8 10/01 and later Operating Systems no separate download is needed.