Oracle VM for SPARC also known as LDOM is a hypervisor used to virtualize the Oracle Solaris environment on T & M series Oracle/ Fujitsu Hardware. This article will walk through to configure the VNIC with specific VLAN number for guest LDOMs. Before getting into the VLAN part, you must understand the virtual networking on […]
Solaris 11.2
Oracle Solaris Cluster – Configure Standby Oracle Database – Dataguard – Part 2
Here is the step by step procedure to bring the oracle Dataguard standby instance under sun cluster control.Once you have completed the primary node setup , you are good to proceed with standby configuration. In this oracle Dataguard configuration ,we will be using the standby nodes as DR servers and it must be configured as […]
Oracle Solaris Cluster – Configure Oracle Database with Dataguard- Part 1
This article will provide step by step procedure to manage the oracle Database under Sun-cluster aka Solaris cluster on Oracle Dataguard environment. Oracle Dataguard is widely used product for the disaster recovery solutions.It provides great visibility to database administrator to manage their environment in better manner. Sun-cluster is used only on oracle Solaris operating system […]
Find Last Patched date on Oracle Solaris
Sometimes, we might need to find the last patched date on Solaris server for PCI compliance requirement. Many organizations are started using the configuration management tools to capture last patched date or maintenance date. But in a legacy environment, we might need to do the reverse engineering to identify last patched date for the server. Let’s […]
How to convert controller disk naming to SSD on Solaris ?
Have you ever been analysed the SAR(System activity reporter) reports on Solaris server for the disk performance issues ? If you would have done that , you might noticed that all the disks & LUN’s will be shown as “ssdXXX” names instead of cXtXdXs2. If you run “iostat” command without “n” option, you can see that […]
How to update Oracle Solaris 11.2 – SRU
This article will talk about the Oracle Solaris 11.2 SRU update (Jan 2015). Oracle’s ultimate goal is to make the Solaris patching like Redhat Linux satellite server patching model. There are some companies would like to stick with the legacy OS patching model instead of going for the IPS patching method(Downloading the OS patch bundle […]
Oracle Solaris 11 – Beginners Guide
If you are working as a Sun Solaris system administrator, you know that how rapidly Solaris operating system is changing from version to version. There were a lot difference between Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. But people were able to grab the changes quickly in the past when it was transformed from Solaris 8/9 to […]
Shellshock bug – vulnerability on Bash shell
Millions of computers are using bash shell (command interpreter ). New security flaw has been found on bash(Bash Code Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) and it allows attackers can take the system control remotely. Heartbleed wave was just over on last april (Openssl vulnerability ).Is Shell-shock hurts more than Heartbleed ? Off-course Yes. Heartbleed was all about sniffing the system […]
Playing with Oracle Solaris 11.2’s Openstack cloud
This article talks about how openstack works with oracle Solaris 11.2 and how to use it. In the last article ,we have seen that installing pre-configured openstack Solaris image as kernel zones ,bare metal installation and installing it on Virtual box/VMware workstation. Once you have install the Oracle solaris 11.2 – openstack image , then […]
Installing Oracle Solaris 11.2 using USB openstack Image
Oracle Solaris 11.2 has integrated with openstack for cloud computing. Many of the Oracle Solaris administrators would like to try the openstack stuffs but deployment is not so easy on it. Since Openstack is new to Solaris administrators, oracle provides the Pre-built templates to install Oracle Solaris 11.2 with openstack package to setup in few […]