What are the virtual components available in Oracle Solaris 11.2 ? Since Oracle Solaris 11.2 supports openstack (for cloud deployment), what are the core components have been virtualized? In this article,we will see the virtual components and how it will be useful in real life.For an example, if you want to provision 10 local zones […]
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Solaris 11 – IPS repository issues and Fixes
This article is going to discuss about Image packaging system repository(IPS)’s real time issues and fixes. When i have started working on Solaris 11, i have faced lot of issues with IPS and that too happens only after the IPS deployment. You need to either online or local repository(offline) to install package,update the Operating system and […]
How to create IPS repository in Solaris 11.2 ?
Image packaging system(IPS) repository is one of the important element from Solaris 11 onwards. For an example, to install any new package or install the zones, you need IPS repository.In Solaris 11.2 release, oracle automated the IPS little bit by providing the script to merge the piece of repo files and performing the checksum automatically. […]
Converting native zone as Kernel zone – Solaris 11.2
On Oracle Solaris 11.2, we have already seen that kernel zones are completely isolated from the global zone. Oracle Solaris 11.2 kernel zones support both backward and forwards compatibility which means you can also run Oracle Solaris 11.3(When it release) on the kernel zone where your global zone can still with oracle Solaris 11.2 In […]
How to configure and install kernel zone on Solaris 11.2
In Oracle Solaris 11.2,we have new type of zone called kernel zone. This zone is almost similar to SPARC VM (LDOM) guests which can run on its own patch level and completely isolated from global zone. These kernel branded zones are support on both SPARC & X86 hardwares. But processors should support virtulization technology(VT) .In […]
Ultimate Oracle Solaris 11.2 – Must known Features
The only one enterprise Unix environment is keep on changing according to the market demand which is none another than Oracle Solaris. When Solaris 11 released , i have very pleased with image packaging system and network virtualization . Due to network virtualization, zone can run with exclusive IP irrespective of physical NICS which was […]
How to upgrade from oracle Solaris 11.1 to oracle Solaris 11.2 ?
As we all know that we can’t directly upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11. But from Oracle Solaris 11 onwards, when you perform the update ,system will automatically move to major version without any additional efforts. In the last article , we have seen that how to update Solaris 11 from oracle support repository directly […]
How to setup oracle Solaris cluster on VMware workstation ?
Getting opportunity to work on cluster environment is very difficult on big companies due to security problem. If you get opportunity also you can’t play much on it since most of the cluster environments will be critical to the client. To learn any operating system cluster, you have to build it by your own and […]
How to configure High Availability zone on Solaris cluster ?
In this article, we will see how we can add local zone as a resource in Solaris cluster to make the zone highly available. In the past we have seen similar setup in veritas cluster. By configuring zone as a resource, if any one node fails ,automatically zone will fly to other node with minimal […]
How to create Resource Group on Solaris cluster ?
This article will help you to create a resource group on Solaris cluster and adding couple of resource to it. Resource group is similar to service group in veritas cluster which bundles the resources in one logical unit. Once you have configured the Solaris two node cluster and added the quorum devices, you can create […]