Oracle has made a lot of changes in Solaris 11’s network architecture compare to Solaris 10. Solaris 11’s network virtualization and network resource control to the OS is absolutely brilliant. The biggest problem with Oracle Solaris 10 is that we have forced to use shared IP type for local zones , since exclusive IP type required a […]
How to Build a Cloud Storage on Solaris 11?
As you know that oracle is marketing Solaris 11 as First cloud operating system in the world.How much true it is ? I am not sure about that. But recently i had come across one of the oracle blog that explains about making Solaris 11 as cloud storage using Pydio aka AjaXplorer opensource tool.Here I would like […]
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 […]
How to Configure DNS Server and Client on Solaris 11 ?
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 […]
What is XFS ? The Default Redhat Linux Filesystem
XFS(Extend File system) is a default root filesystem in Redhat Linux ES 7 onwards. This shows redhat has plan to shift from ext filesystems. XFS filesystem is originally developed by Silicon Graphics. XFS is a highly scalable, high-performance file system compare to ext4 and it supports up to 16 exabytes filesystem and 8 exabytes files. XFS supports metadata […]
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 […]