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 ...
The version of BIND that comes with the most recent release of Solaris 10 is 9.3.6-P1. This document is meant to provide a step-by-step procedure to compile and install ...
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 ...
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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 machine, ...
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 ...
This article explains how to configure the ILOM (Integratred Lights Out Manager) of a Sun Microsystems server to authenticate against a Windows Active Directory user account.
To use AD accounts to ...
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. ...
This is meant to provide a step-by-step walk-through on how to build a simple JumpStart server.
For more details on further capabilities of JumpStart and other advanced installation topics please visit ...
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Published on November 27th, 2009no comments
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 ...
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Published on November 25th, 2009no comments
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 ...
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Published on November 13th, 2009no comments
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
export LU_DEBUG_STATE
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Published on November 13th, 2009no comments
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 recent version ...
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Published on October 28th, 2009no comments
Problem Description:
During a SuSE 9 SP3 X64 installation on a Sun Fire x6250 using ILOM kvm redirection and both CD and ISO based installation media images, the graphical installer does ...
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Published on October 28th, 2009no comments
Sun is in the process of EOL’ing Solaris 8. They no longer sell media kits and none of their new hardware platforms are capable of running this legacy version of ...
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