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 Dataset Size

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A simple entry on how to discover or set the size for a given ZFS dataset as occasionaly we need to increase the size of a ZFS dataset.

ZFS Internals

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Max Bruning wrote an excellent paper on how to examine the internals of a ZFS data structure.

ZFS and Sun Cluster integration

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A ZFS owned disk may be promoted to be a quorum disk on current Sun Cluster versions

ZFS Zones

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If the filesystem is created in the global zone and added to the local zone via zonecfg, it may be assigned to more than one zone

ZFS Performance Monitoring

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In ZFS, I/Os are scheduled similarly to how jobs are scheduled on CPUs.

ZFS Raid Levels

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ZFS filesystems automatically stripe across all top-level disk devices. (Mirrors and RAID-Z devices are considered to be top-level devices)

ZFS Filesystem Management

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Similar filesystems should be grouped together in hierarchies to make management easier.

Most commonly used XSCF commands

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The eXtended System Control Facility Unit (XSCFU) is a service processor that operates and administrates both midrange servers