Solaris 10 Sparc patch utility patches

Before doing any patching on a Solaris system, including patching during a live upgrade, make sure you have applied all of the Sun recommended patching utility patches. The basic list ...

Mirror boot drive on T5120 with onboard RAID controller.

These are the procedures used create a mirrored boot drive using the onboard RAID controller on a T5120.  The same procedure can be used with any Sun system that comes ...

Simple Sendmail Configuration

This is how I set up an SMTP relay server for outbound e-mail.  I use this type of configuration so that I can have my servers send out messages without ...

Dtrace 1 liners and scripts

I’ve been hacking around with dtrace for a few months now. Whenever I find I have a need to use dtrace I’ll start by going over to Brendan Gregg’s site ...

Solaris IPMP: Probe Based IPMP

In a highly available server configuration it is important to eliminate any single point of failure.  IPMP, or IP Multipathing, provides a mechanism for building redundant network interfaces to guard ...

Enable Zone Installation Debugging

If your non-global zones are not properly installing try enabling zone installation debugging. All you have to do is append the following two lines to /etc/default/lu before installing zone. LU_DEBUG_STATE=zon ...

Live Upgrade Troubleshooting

This is meant to be a list of basic troubleshooting tips for Live Upgrade. It is a work in progress. #1 and #2 Troubleshooting Tips! Patch up to the most ...

Jumpstart of Solaris VM on VMWare ESX hangs

Problem Description: I have a Jumpstart infrastructure set up that has had no problems installing Solaris natively on my servers. However, when I attempt to do so within a virtual ...

Solaris SVM: Mirroring Boot Drive

This was written as a quick reference guide for setting up a mirrored (RAID 1) boot device. I used a Sun Fire V240 system for this article. The same principles ...

Creating Solaris Zones

Solaris provides an effective and simple method of creating virtual Solaris hosts- Solaris Zones. This article provides the procedures to create and run Solaris Zones under a Solaris 10 environment. ...