Domain Name System is responsible for assigning domain names and mapping those names to IP address. In other words, it resolves the IP address to hostname and hostname to IP address. I am sure that customers won’t be ready to run Solaris 11 box as DNS server but still i just would like to share the method of configuring DNS […]
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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 […]
Solaris 11- How to Configure IPMP – Probe-Based ?
When your system required to handle huge amount of traffic, then you may need to combine one or more physical interfaces in to logical interfaces in various methods.1.Link Aggregation 2.Configuring IPMP. IPMP methods works in two methods to detect the failures. If the system is configured with default router, then it checks the connectivity with it.Otherwise it works in […]
How to Install Oracle Solaris Cluster on Solaris 11 ?
This is the first article about Sun cluster aka oracle Solaris cluster on UnixArena. This Oracle Solaris cluster series articles will cover the build of a two-node cluster running Solaris Cluster 4.1 on Solaris 11.The intention of making the cluster will be configuring High availability local zone aka failover local zones.We have done the same […]
How to Configure ISCSI target in Solaris 11 ?
Solaris 11 has integrated with COMSTAR to configure ISCSI devices. You can easily setup COMSTAR ISCSI target and make the volume available over the network. As you know ISCSI is very cheap compare to our traditional SAN environment.With help of Infiniband interface, I am sure we can definitely match the FC SAN performance on ISCSI devices.Here we will see how […]
Solaris 11 – ZFS Must known features
In this ZFS tutorial series,Here we are going to see about new features of ZFS and it’s usage in real production environment. Oracle is continuously developing ZFS and they brought some of the nice features in to Solaris 11 ZFS . Here we are mainly focusing on ZFS deduplication and ZFS encryption mechanisms. ZFS Deduplication is the process of […]
Solaris11-How to Manage Boot Environments ?
Managing boot environments in Solaris11 is almost same as Solaris 10’s Live upgrade.In Solaris 10,we will use lu commands like lucreate,luactivate,lumount ,luumount and lustatus. But in Solaris 11, all the tasks will be carried out using beadm command.Here we will perform simple operations to understand beadm in Solaris11. First thing is to create a new […]
Solaris 11 – How to Clone the local zone ?
Solaris 11 local zone installation article already available in Unixarena. But here we are going to see how to create a local zone much faster than that and how to clone the local zones in seconds.The cloning mechanism utilizes the ZFS deduplication facility and it creates local zones with size few MB’s if we create the local zones on same zpool. The cloning […]
How to Create a Virtual switch on Solaris11 ? How to Use it ?
Oracle Solaris 11 introduces a one of the new network virtualization component is called Virtual switch.There are two type of virtual-switches are available in Solaris 11. First type is, when you create a first VNIC on the system,it will automatically creates a virtual switch in the background for external network communications.The second type of virtual switch can be created by using “etherstub” command for […]
How to Migrate/Upgrade from Solaris10 to Solaris11 ?
As you all know Oracle Solaris 11 is available for production and most of the customers are preferred to have Solaris 11 on their datacenters. Even I would like to play with Solaris 11 by upgrading existing Solaris 10 systems.Now the question may raise that,Is it possible upgrade my older version of Solaris to Solaris 11 ? The […]