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 […]
Solaris 10
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 […]
How to kill zombie process in solaris
A zombie process or defunct process is a dead process that has completed execution but still it may be in the process table. Defunct processes are child processes that terminated. The process image in the kernel for that process is no more. It no longer exists. Defunct processes do not take up any CPU time, RAM […]
Fork Error on Solaris SPARC/X86
In Solaris ,we may encounter a fork error issue very often if the system is not tuned well.Some times due to poor application configuration, system may not able to allocate the resource or system will end-up with insufficient resources.It happens because poor system design where the “system load” vs “system configuration” are not well balanced.For an […]
How to get SUN server serial number ?
Are you breaking your head to find the Sun/oracle server serial number from Solaris operating system ? Many times it is required to get support from hardware vendor and every time we can’t go back to look at the server builds books to find it. Here I am just sharing few tips to find the server […]