Solaris 11 has significant changes in the way Solaris administrator interact with it in day to day operations. Oracle get rid of the text files approach in Solaris 11 and brought admin commands instead of that.Here we are going to see about sysconfig command which will be used for configuring system,un-configuring system,and profile creation.This is […]
Installation of Solaris 11-Step by step Guide
Many of the Solaris beginners will be wondering that how to install Solaris 11.Here you go with step by step guide.There is no much difference compare to Solaris 10 Using DVD/CD installation method and you need to answer very less questions. Solaris 11 won’t ask you to select the filesystem types like UFS or ZFS since UFS root filesystem […]
How to reduce the Security risk in Solaris ? – Generic OS Hardening steps
Is your Solaris environment is secure enough ? How can we tighten the system security ? Here we will see some basic Hardening steps for Solaris OS.Every organization should maintain hardening checklists of each operating systems which they are using it.Before server is bringing to operation/production, hardening check list needs to be verified by support […]
Solaris ZFS – Interview Questions
As we know Oracle made ZFS is a default root filesystem from Solaris 11 onwards. This shows their future plans of improving ZFS and making it as worlds best volume manager cum filesystem in near future.Customers would like to have ZFS in their environment since its a inbuilt volume manager and there is no additional operating cost unlike VXVM. They preferred […]
Solaris Zone(Containers) – Interview Questions
Here I would like to share interview questions regarding Solaris zones which will be normally asked for L2 level candidates in Solaris interviews. Now a days virtualization plays very important role in infrastructure market to reduce the data center space,power and utilizing hardware potentially. The virtualization goal is that utilizing the hardware without scarifying the application performance and reducing the operational cost. We will see some of the interview questions and its […]
How to configure I/O fencing on Veritas cluster ?
I/O fencing is required to protect the data corruption in Shared storage cluster environment. In Normal VCS operation,Veritas cluster nodes will be having heart beats and each system will send ICMP packets to ensure each machines are live and service group status is known.(Picture:1.0).I/O fencing behaves same way on system failure and cluster interconnect failure.It will not take any […]
How to add ZPOOL-ZFS to Solaris local zones ?
Oracle is marketing Oracle’s ZFS(Zeta Byte filesystem) is the next generation filesystem. If you say next generation filesystem,will it be enhanced to support OS virtualization ? Yes.It is.Unlike VXVM, we can delegate the entire zpool to local zones.So that we can manage the entire zpool from the local zone level without logging in to global zone.It includes creating […]
How to assign VXFS FS to Solaris local zone from global ?
How to assign different type of filesystems from Solaris global zone to local zone ? The filesystem type could be type of vxfs , zfs or ufs. Oracle Solaris offers various way of assigning filesystem to Solaris zones.But we need to find out the best method for adding different type filesystems to local zones. The […]
Certifications – VXVM/VCS-Symantec storage foundation
The Symantec Certification Program is a valuable investment in the current market.Since acquisition of veritas, its become very important for system admins who needs to be get certified on their products like veritas volume manager and veritas cluster.By completing these certification,system admins will be experts on Installation,configuration,product administration, day-to-day maintenance, and basic troubleshooting. Symantec recommends […]
Oracle Solaris certifications for system administrator- 2013
Oracle has many certification programs.As a system administrator, you may have doubt that which certification should be suitable to build technical competence. Here we will see the certification path for Solaris administrators.Oracle Solaris certification consists four parts. 1.Oracle system administration 2.Oracle Solaris cluster 3.Oracle Solaris network administration 4.Oracle Solaris security Please read the important announcement from oracle regarding the system administrator certification. http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=449 1.Oracle system administration: If you are […]