Once you have configured the Solaris cluster , you have to add the quorum device for additional voting process. Without Quorum devices, cluster will be in installed mode. You can verify the status using “cluster show -t global | grep installmode” command.Each node in a configured cluster has one ( 1 ) quorum vote and […]
Oracle Solaris
How to configure Solaris two node cluster on Solaris 10 ?
Once you have installed the Solaris cluster on Solaris 10 nodes, you can start configuring the Solaris cluster according to the requirement . If you are planning for two node cluster, then you need two Solaris 10 hosts with 3 NIC cards and shared storage .You have to provide two dedicated NIC for cluster heartbeat.Also […]
How to install Solaris Cluster 3.3 on Solaris 10 ?
Here we will see how to install oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 u2 on Solaris 10 x86 system. I haven’t showed any interest on Solaris cluster but getting many requests to write about it. So i took some time and now i am back with Solaris Cluster series articles which will help you to setup the […]
Openssl Heartbleed bug on Solaris and Linux
Most of the system administrators and developers are re-directed to fix the openssl’s most threatening bug which is named as heartbleed .Two years ago , openssl has added new extension called heartbeat. Heartbeat actually keep the session alive for a bit ,so that communication will not be broken.Where as in typical SSL, connection will be […]
How to Migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded zone ? V2V
If you are planning to move the Solaris 10 zones to Solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you. As you know there is no direct method to upgrade the Solaris 10 to Solaris 11, most of the clients would like to run their existing Solaris 10 zones as branded zone […]
How to migrate solaris 10 global zone into solaris 11 ? P2V
In upcoming days,definitely you need to migrate the solaris 10 physical servers as a local zone in solaris 11 global zone if you want to continue to use solaris 10 operating system.These kind of situation rasie due to application incompatibility with high version of operating systems.So you may need to stick with older version of […]
How to install solaris 10 branded zone on solaris 11?
Oracle Solaris 10 allows you to create a Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 as branded zone on SPARC environment and not supported on x86.But oracle soalris 11 allows you to create Solaris 10 as a branded zone on both SPARC and X86 environments.For your information Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 branded zones are not supported […]
How to upgrade zpool version on solaris ?
zpool version needs to be upgrade whenever you are performing the OS patching .Because the newer version of zpool offers the more functionality and fixes a lot bugs. zpool upgrade can be performed on the fly without any impact to the data pools and rpool. But you need to consider lot of things prior the […]
How to Upgrade ilom firmware on oracle sun servers ?
Oracle is mainly focusing on ILOM hardware console for their x86 and SPARC Blade servers. Only M-series servers are having XSCF prompt for dynamic domain configuration. In this article, we are going to see how to upgrade the system ilom firmware and BIOS for x86,openboot prompt for SPARC on oracle (sun)blade servers.System administrators should maintain the […]
How to Break the ZFS mirror on Solaris ?
This article is going to explain how to break the ZFS mirror on Solaris.I am not sure how this will be useful in real production environment. Because splitting can be possible only on mirrored zpool. Unlike veritas volume manager diskgroup split, ZFS is not going to divide the zpool. Its just remove the mirror and […]