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

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Resumable ZFS Send Streams

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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

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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

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

Bundled FOSS in the upcoming Oracle Solaris 11.4

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

Oracle Linux and Solaris command comparison

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

Oracle Linux and Solaris runlevels

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