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

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Introduction to Solaris Live Upgrade

The Solaris Live Upgrade revolutionises the way that you add patches to Solaris products and can save you hours of time and effort.

Using psradm to enable/disable a processor on Solaris

The psradm utility changes the operational status of processors. The legal states for the processor are on-line, offline, spare, Faulted, and no-intr

fssnap of / (root) fails under Solaris

Using fssnap we can quickly take a temporary snapshot of any UFS file system and then use that snapshot for backup operations.

UFS snaphots

Basically, a snapshot is read-only copy of a file system (for the purpose of backup).

Renaming Sun Cluster node names

Sometime hostname need to be changed especially when your customer want to make some list of server more orderly and correctly identify your machine

ZFS Quick Reference Guide

ZFS uses the concept of storage pools to manage physical storage. Historically, file systems were constructed on top of a single physical device.

ZFS command line examples

ZFS uses the concept of storage pools to manage physical storage. Historically, file systems were constructed on top of a single physical device.

Fixing ILOM command errors

There has been more than one instance when the Sun ILOM was not responsive to commands or were throwing errors