Solaris 11: Manual vs Automatic Networking Basics

There are two different network configuration modes/profiles in Solaris 11, Automatic and Manual.  This Network Configuration Profile (NCP) is determined during installation.  For Manual mode, the ipadm and dladm commands ...

Mounting ISO Images in Solaris vs. AIX

The reason for this document was because all I could find through Google for mounting an ISO image on AIX was the following document.  Using this method takes about an ...

Modify a Solaris Jumpstart Miniroot for Fun and Profit

I use the following basic procedure to create a Jumpstart boot image that I can use for various system maintenance purposes.  The boot image is used solely to boot across ...

Solaris Tips: Flash Archive (FLAR) with Zones

Issue At least as of Solaris 10 10/09 (Update 8), Solaris Flash Archive technology is not compatible with Solaris Zones, making systems with zones more difficult to clone and deploy. ...

Solaris Tips: Unencapsulate SVM root mirror

Often times administrators must boot a Solaris from alternate media in single user mode (failsafe, cd/dvdrom, or network image) in order to make repairs to the installed OS. In this ...

Solaris Tips: Repairing the Boot Archive

The Solaris boot archive, introduced in Solaris 10 10/08 (update 6) on SPARC (it’s in the X86 version since the 1/06 release), is similar to the initrd in Linux. It ...

Quick Reference: ZFS vs Btrfs

ZFS vs BtrFS This guide is not a discussion on which is better: ZFS or BtrFS (While many may argue that the fundamental design of BtrFS is superior, it is ...

Solaris Authentication Login with Active Directory

In most office environments users will have a Windows workstation on their desktop; most locations do not have users’ log into a Unix/Linux desktop as their primary work environment. In ...

Create An RBAC Authorization To Restart a Webserver

One of the nice features of Sun Java Enterprise Webserver 7 is that you can have it create an SMF service for each webserver configuration.  Using this in conjunction with ...

Solaris IPMP: Link Based IPMP

IPMP, or IP Multipathing, is used to provide redundant network connections for your Solaris servers.  When IPMP was first release it used a probe based method for failure detection.  This ...