Using "sneep" to find/set the chassis serial number
sneep is a utility that displays the chassis serial number for a given Solaris system. A handy tool to use when inventoring your data centre.
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Solaris Deferred Activation Patching (DAP)
With DAP the reboot is deferred until all patching is completed unlike non-DAP kernel patches which forced reboot before other patches can be applied.
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
Displaying Solaris processor information
Using psrinfo, prtdiag and prtconf to find processor information on a Solaris system
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.