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

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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

Patching Solaris 10 zones in parallel

Every sysadmin that has upgraded or patched a system running multiples zones will tell it, the upgrade was an undefinably long process.

ZFS Snapshots and Clones

The difference between a snapshot and a clone is that a clone is a writable, mountable copy of the file system.

Solaris non-global Zone States

This article simply provides a zone state flow chart and a table listing the state of non-global zones under Solaris.

Managing Solaris 10 inetd services

inetadm is used in Solaris 10 to managing inetd services. If you run without any parameters you simply get a list of all services and status