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If you accidentally upgraded your root zfs pool (which is not recommended until it is supposed to be done from Oracle) do not forget to update your boot signature,  your boot archive and your grub installation -

but do not reboot before having done this, otherwise the system won't boot any more.

Don't upgrade the root pool! You won't be able to repair your system when booting from the actual Solaris 10 boot CD (09/10) as the root pool cannot be mounted then. The following steps are to make sure that your system will at least boot when you did the upgrade accidentally.

Example:

Since Kernel patch/update 144501-19, Oracle now puts zpool version 29 and zfs version 5 into production.

One visible change is the more detailed status when doing a scrub or a resilver operation:

# zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
 scan: scrub in progress since Mon Aug  8 16:18:21 2011
    1.98G scanned out of 3.66G at 50.7M/s, 0h0m to go
    1.98G scanned out of 3.66G at 50.7M/s, 0h0m to go
    0 repaired, 54.13% done
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          c1t0d0s0  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

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A Sun OpenStorage can be configured through a web interface or a command line (ssh).

In this article I'll focus on the web interface.

Initial configuration has to be done via the serial console and type

start /SP/console

The following screen just asks for primary network interface for management and the IP address.  After connecting the appliance through this interface the web interface on the left can be contacted (port 215 is standard).

After typing in username and password ("root" as user and "changeme" as password are the factory defaults) the "dashboard" appears:

I'll write an article about configuration and possibilites of OpenStorage the next day(s), but as an appetizer here are two web configuration screenshots (click on them for original size):

First, the status dashboard, showing system/disk activity: