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

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Oracle VM 3.4 Server Log Files

The Oracle VM Serverlog files you should check when troubleshooting problems with Oracle VM Server

Solaris 10 and 11 differences for sysadmins

Describes multiple topics for transitioning from the Solaris 10 operating system to an Oracle Solaris 11 release.

Verifying Solaris 11 version

To check your software to see if they meet minimum version requirements for installation you can use the uname comand, however...

Switching Solaris 11 repositories

For testing purpose you can use the release repository but production environments must use oracle support repository.

Renaming a ZFS zpool

Renaming a zpool is not as intuitive as I would expect, but it is still pretty simple. However, we can accomplish this through a three step process.

Resizing Solaris swap partition online

A short tip on how to increate the size of swap online for a given Solaris system under zfs.

Configuring OpenSSH on Solaris 8

Solaris 8 doesn't come with the SSH and SFTP like features, to enable these we have to install and configure third party packages

Changing the Oracle VM Manager User Password

The Oracle VM Manager user lets you log in to the Oracle VM Manager Web UI. This article provides the steps required to change the admin password.