In Solaris local zone lsof will not work.By default all the application should have configured with specific port number.But sometimes your application will not start if that port has been already occupied by another application process.In this situation, you will get error like “unable to bind port <port-number>”if you try to start the application. Traditionally we […]
Oracle Solaris
How to Identify Solaris Processor Cores ?
For hardware inventory, we may need to provide the Processor details like number installed physical processors , number core per processor on Solaris SPARC and X86 system. SunMicro system doesn’t make any complication to identify the CPU information on Solaris Operating system.To list the physical processor and core,we have the binary called “prsinfo” to pull the […]
How to upgrade SUN T5220 System Firmware Upgrade ?
We need to update the system firmware periodically to stay away from the bugs.Oracle hardware firmware can be download from the oracle website after logging with the support id. By upgrading the system firmware,system can support new devices,better performance,better availability and add more security to the system. In a order to upgrade the system firmware,y ou need to […]
How to Measure the Network Bandwidth Between Solaris Nodes?
There is no command available in any Unix like operating systems to measure the actual bandwidth of network by sending the real packets over the network. OS developers intentionally left out this option since such type of commands will hammer the system network. But we need such kind of tool in project phase of the system where you need to perform some […]
How to Use Distribution Constructor on Solaris 11 ?
Distribution Constructor is a new term which is introduced in Solaris 11 to customize the Solaris 11 bootable ISO images. These bootable Solaris 11 images can be edited according to the environment.For an example, if you do not want to install some of the default packages from ISO which you have downloaded from oracle website,you can remove […]
How to Install the Solaris11 Using AI with Pre-Configured State ?
In the last article, we have seen how to install the AI server and configuring AI server with DHCP.But that doesn’t cover ,the installation of customized client like timezone,hostname ,IP address, DNS and root account password etc..Here we will see how we can install Solaris 11 with Pre-customized profile. This setup will give complete hands-off process of […]
How to Configure Automated Installer on Solaris 11 ?
In this post we are going to see how to install and configure oracle Solaris Automated installer. What is Automated installer ? The Automated Installer is used to automate the installation of oracle Solaris 11 on X86 and SPARC architecture over the network.The below picture will describe how the AI works. AI is replacement for Jumpstart server […]
What is Oracle’s SuperCluster ? How it Works ?
Oracle supercluster is fastest and most scalable engineering systems specially designed for enterprise level computing.Don’t not think that supercluster is alternative product for sun cluster or veritas cluster. Supercluster is a complete setup which contains high performance servers,storage,networking and software in a single box.These system will only fit in large-scale datacenters. The latest supercluster from […]
How to Cleanup the Liveupgrade on Solaris ?
Again I back to one of my favorite topic.Yes,its liveupgrade. As we all know liveupgrade is newly introduced in Solaris 10 and it has great feature if you use along with ZFS filesystem. Solaris Live upgrade made the OS patching is more simple and it will save lot of time.But liveupgrade has lot of bugs and it […]
How to Find IOWAIT on Solaris ?
This article is the follow up article of I/O bottle neck issues.Once you have determine the I/O-wait, then you are good proceed with this article.I/O wait is something that processor are waiting for I/O to complete either on disk or network.In production systems ,most of the application will be configured to write on the disk or LUNS […]