A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles on anything storage related.

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Sun Storage T3 DMP Failover FAQ

This FAQ should answer some of the basic questions on how failovers work on the StorEdge T3 array

Troubleshooting Raid Manager (RM6)

A collection of troublshooting tips for the raid manager software for controlling the Sun StorEdge A1000, RSM200, A3x00 storage arrays.

Raid Manager (RM6) cheat sheet

Raid Manager (RM6) is the software product the enables you to manipulate the disks in an A1000, RSM2000 or an A3x00(fc).

Solstice Disksuite (SDS) Cheat Sheet

Solstice DiskSuite is a software product that enables you to manage large numbers of disks and the data on those disks.

Veritas File System (VxFS) Cheat Sheet

This article is aimed a providing a list of basic commands for Veritas File System (VxFS).

VxVM command line cheat sheet (part 2)

This article is aimed at providing a list of basic and advanced command-line examples for Veritas Volume Manager.

Veritas Volume Manager

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) is an implementation of disk management allowing for mirroring and raid to better manage and utilise your storage.

Removing VxVM from a Solaris root disk

This post provides an example of how to remove VxVM from a Solaris root disk. The operating system is mirrored between the two devices.