Solaris articles - church1e's blog

A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Joining a Solaris system to a Windows Active Directory (AD)

14 Jan 2019 57 sec(s) 1264 visits.

Joining a Solaris™ machine to AD

Resumable ZFS Send Streams

26 Apr 2018 1 min 15 sec(s) 4224 visits.

The ability to resume an interrupted zfs send/receive data stream which is a representation of a snapshot is now part of Oracle Solaris 11.4

Monitor and Manage ZFS Shadow Migration

26 Apr 2018 46 sec(s) 2796 visits.

Using Shadow Migration is very easy; for example, we could migrate shared ZFS and UFS file systems through NFS or even through a local file system

Configurable ZFS Read and Write Throughput Limits

12 Sep 2019 1 min 31 sec(s) 3639 visits.

Setting the size of a ZFS dataset can ensure an appropriate allocation of space configuration that contains multiple volumes to service different clients

Packet Filter bundled in the upcoming Oracle Solaris 11.4

26 Apr 2018 58 sec(s) 4407 visits.

This artical summarises features that are new or have been enhanced in the upcoming release of Oracle Solaris 11.4

Bundled FOSS in the upcoming Oracle Solaris 11.4

26 Apr 2018 52 sec(s) 4019 visits.

The number of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), or freeware, packages delivered with Oracle Solaris 11 has increased with each update

Install and configure SolarWinds SEM agent on a Solaris server

22 Mar 2018 1 min 2 sec(s) 1292 visits.

This article describes how to install and configure the Solaris agent to log data to Security Event Manager (formerly Log and Event Manager).

Oracle Linux and Solaris command comparison

22 Feb 2017 2 min(s) 48 sec(s) 3586 visits.

This document explains how to use Oracle Solaris to users who have experience operating systems in a Linux environment.

Oracle Linux and Solaris runlevels

22 Feb 2017 1 min 42 sec(s) 2623 visits.

Like Oracle Enterprise Linux 6, Solaris has runlevels 0 through 6. However, the meanings are somewhat different. In OEL 7 runlevel is target.

Troubleshooting Solaris 11 network interfaces

12 Jan 2017 1 min 59 sec(s) 3433 visits.

This is a short article that provides some basic pointers to troubleshooting Solaris 11 network interfaces.