In the last post, we have seen about process status using prstat.But here we are going to see how to control the process using pid in Solaris Many of the Solaris administrator may thinking how to freeze the process ? Some beginners may still have doubt that how to kill the process? Some of them may still wondering how start […]
ZFS – How to increase rpool in Solaris
We have an issue in ZFS “the next generation filesystem” as well.In ZFS, you can not extend the root pool by adding new disks.But it has some logic too. For an example,if you are having more than one harddisk in root zpool, loss of one disk result be un-bootable system.To eliminate these kind of situations ,its better to keep […]
Veritas volume Manager interview questions
Unix system administration is not an easy job and attending interview is an another toughest one.If its come to Solaris then you should have good knowledge in veritas products like VXVM & VCS. As far as I know that only one enterprise Unix is keep on changing from one version to another version.That is none another than […]
VCS Questions Answers
I feel this is very useful post for the UNIX admins who want to give Solaris interview. You can’t escape from veritas cluster part on the interview since it is widely used clustering software on mission critical Solaris servers.Please feel free to setup VCS cluster on your laptop and practice as much as possible before […]
Solaris 10 Interview questions
Here is the basic Solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in Solaris L1 or L2 (Level 1 or L2) interviews.If you don’t have a Solaris setup to work,just install Solaris as guest operating system on VMware workstations and get a hands on experience. You can also go through the below interface questions on specific category . 1.Solaris zones Interview Questions 2. […]
Solaris Processes Monitoring – prstat
Solaris has number of tools to examine process details and those just reading the /proc directory. These tools are very useful in application troubleshooting and analyzing the system performance. This article is based on “Solaris™ Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture” book. I would strongly recommend this for all the Solaris administrators. Here we […]
Solaris 10 – Local zone wise utilization Report using zonestat
I am sure many of the Solaris administrators will break their head in an order to find Solaris local zones wise resource utilization details on oracle Solaris 10. Because there is no simple inbuilt tool to find these details in Solaris 10 (Apart from prstat -Z). I just come across Jeff Victor’s Blog and found this […]
Solaris – Memory & Swap Usage Script
How to find the exact memory and swap usage of Solaris server? Solaris uses the memory as /tmp and swap will be calculated along with physical memory. We need to use the right commands to figure out the utilization of both. “top” is one if the best monitoring tool but it’s not inbuilt in Solaris 10. I have created […]
Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (HA) Solutions license keys ?
How can i get veritas storage foundation and High availability from Symantec ? Is it free ? No.Only Veritas Storage Foundation Basic is a free-license version of Veritas Storage Foundation . Using the basic version, you can create up to four volumes and four diskgroups and you can’t use veritas cluster service in this. But you have an option here to use […]
How to install Redhat Linux on vmware workstation ?
Installing Redhat Linux is very simple,But most of the Linux beginners may wondering how to do that. Here i have used vmware workstation to show installation of Redhat Linux .The installation steps will be same if you install it in physical servers as well.If you are not familiar with vmware workstation,you can see how i have created Solaris virtual […]