Solaris OS patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from Solaris 10 on-wards.We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade ,make sure you are using ZFS as a root filesystem.For you information,from Solaris 11 onward,ZFS will be the default root filesystem. In other-words, […]
Oracle Solaris
DF command shows incorrect usage in VXFS
I have observed “df -h”command will show that veritas filesystems is used so and so space, but actually if you go to that mount point and calculate disk space using “du -sh” there will be nothing. In few cases, when df command will not show the correct usage of the filesystems. Also,if the filesystem created […]
How to plumb new IP in the zone on fly
As we all know that plumbing a new interface and assigning a IP address in Solaris 10 global zone. Have you ever added the new IP address in local zone without rebooting it ? Will it work by adding the IP information in zone’s configuration using zonecfg ? No. If you add a any new configuration in zonecfg, it requires […]
Oracle Solaris – UFS to ZFS Migration Using Live upgrade (root FS)
How to migrate the Solaris root filesystem from UFS/SVM to ZFS on Oracle Solaris 10 ?. From Solaris 10 on-wards ZFS filesystem supports root FS. If you are already having the root filesystem in UFS, you can easily convert it using Live upgrade with minimal downtime. The actual down time is just a single reboot. […]
Solaris ZONE + Liveupgrade compatibility model –Solaris 10
Using ZFS as root filesystems on global zone and local zone is huge advantage for OS patching. ZFS is very flexible with Liveupgrade, so that rollback action is very simple. It’s Just reboot. Here we will see what type of zone+zfs configuration will support in Solaris 10 for Liveupgrade. If you are planning to use […]
Oracle server-Virtualization Technologies
OS Virtualization is a hot topic in the IT market.All the operating system developers and OEM are keep on introducing new virtualization technologies day by day. Have you ever asked why is it so import in infrastructure management ? Operating system virtualization very important to reduce the hardware cost and isolates the applications from server. In older days ,if you want to port the […]
Solaris 10’s Resource Management:Controlling process using projects
in older days we use to set the kernel tuneable parameters through /etc/system in Solaris Boxes.But from Solaris 10 on-wards,we set those parameters using resource control mechanism.The rctladm command allows you to make runtime interrogations of and modifications to the resource controls facility, with global scope. The prctl command allows you to make runtime interrogations of and modifications to the resource controls facility, with […]
Solaris 10’s Resource Management and Shell Limit(ulimit)
Solaris 10’s Resource Management One of the best known features in Solaris is Resource management. This mechanism allows controlling resource for each and every process which is big advantage in system administration.System precious resources like CPU & memory also can be controlled by using projects and newtask feature. Resource Management:A resource controls are identified by […]
lucreate failed due to – Zones residing on top level of the dataset.
Live-upgrade:Oracle Solaris 10 has come with ZFS and live-upgrade features to eliminate the down time for OS patching.But still this feature need lot of maturity in order to use in critical production environment.It has so many bugs and many restricted configuration setup. I would say oracle Solaris is completely moved to next generation OS patching […]
how to take sun M-series XSCF snapshot
Oracle SUN M-series has an new extended System Control Facility (XSCF) firmware with powerful console prompt. XSCF has its own processor to monitor the server hardware.Even though the server is down,XSCF will be always available until power supply coming to the server. When you are running XSCF snapshot,it will collect complete physical server information not […]