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

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Creating an LDOM step-by-step

This article acts like a demo showing step-by-step instructions on the creation of a new LDOM, assigning resources and installation of the Solaris OS.

Solaris LDOM overview

A simple posts giving a brief overview on the Solaris LDOM hardware virtualisation.

Editing (vi) large files in Solaris

Editing large files with vi may result in the error 'Not enough space in /var/tmp' may appear and prevents you from editing your file.

Patching Solaris with PCA

Not only does PCA generate a list of patches and downloads them, it also resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in the correct order