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

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Common Solaris and AIX logical volume management tasks

30 Nov 2000 54 sec(s) 3116 visits.

A short article providing common troubleshooting reference between Solaris 8 and AIX 4.3.3 operating systems.

Solaris Volume Manager Overview

24 Jun 1999 4 min(s) 2 sec(s) 2875 visits.

A full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, so we will focus on the most common cases, how to set them up, manage them and maintain them.

Veritas File System (VxFS) Y2K Info

5 Aug 1999 1 min 6 sec(s) 3126 visits.

Y2000 Compliance requires patched version 3.2.5 or later. The patched versions are down-loadable free of charge from the following ftp sites.

VxFS bug manifests as a backup issue

21 May 1999 1 min 15 sec(s) 2621 visits.

There is a rather nasty bug in Vxfs 3.3.1 that appears to manifest itself into a backup problem.

Creating DiskSuite transaction logging metadevices

26 Apr 1999 1 min 45 sec(s) 2555 visits.

A metatrans device is identical to any other kind of metadevice. In order to configure the device it is assumed there is a free slice on each disk.

Minimum disk configuration for a Sun StorEdge A5x00 disk array

26 Mar 1999 28 sec(s) 2562 visits.

Sun StorEdge A5x00 disk arrays require a minimum number of disks to be installed and placed in certain slots to ensure proper operation of the array.

A5x00 (photon) Cheat Sheet

12 Jul 2002 2 min(s) 42 sec(s) 2460 visits.

This article provides a quick reference guide to the supported disk configuration on a Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage array.

Moving a SPARCstorage Array between servers

13 Jun 1998 1 min 25 sec(s) 3225 visits.

Here are the steps necessary to ensure successful switch-over of a Sun Storage Array (SSA) between two Sun systems.

Changing the WWN on a SPARCstorage Array

28 Apr 1998 2 min(s) 48 sec(s) 2605 visits.

There are times when it is advantageous to change the World-Wide Number (WWN) for a particular SPARCstorage Array, such as after replacing the battery

Creating a DiskSuite RAID5 device

26 Apr 1998 48 sec(s) 2519 visits.

Creating a RAID 5 metadevice with DiskSuite is extremely simple. Unlike creating mirrors which involves several steps.