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Assigning a Volume Name to a Solaris disk

Updated 7 Jun 2008 Read time 2 min(s) 28 sec(s) (3013 visits).

Having a large number of disks can be a challange for sysadmins. By giving each disk a volume name may make it easier.

Updated 5 May 2008 Read time 3 min(s) 43 sec(s) (3039 visits).

How to backup Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration for a disk group and use the backup to recover the disk group configuration

Updated 17 Jan 2008 Read time 49 sec(s) (1889 visits).

This post simple provides a list of the default passwords for the Sun Storage SE 99x0 arrays and Hitatchi Data Systems (HDS) Storage systems.

Published 5 Dec 2007 Read time 2 min(s) 24 sec(s) (409 visits).

mdadm multipathing is a failover solution (no load balancing) what means that only one path is used at any one time.

Updated 19 Oct 2012 Read time 5 min(s) 56 sec(s) (2486 visits).

Checking if any of the MPxIO, VxDMP or EMC PowerPath multipathing software is installed and active on a given Solaris system.

Updated 25 Aug 2006 Read time 4 min(s) 53 sec(s) (3451 visits).

hasnap - backs up or restores a predefined and user defined list of VCS configuration files on each node in the cluster.

Updated 11 Feb 2019 Read time 3 min(s) 47 sec(s) (1078 visits).

Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) traditionally introduces a new disk group version with each new major release.

Updated 9 Jul 2006 Read time 9 min(s) 40 sec(s) (3357 visits).

This cheat sheet contains common commands and information for Sun Cluster versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3.

Updated 9 Jul 2006 Read time 1 min 33 sec(s) (2503 visits).

In VCS configuration, each cluster contains systems, service groups and resources. Service Groups contain a list of systems belonging to that group.

Updated 9 Jul 2006 Read time 8 min(s) 15 sec(s) (2683 visits).

In VCS configuration, each Cluster contains systems, Service Groups and Resources. Service Groups contain a list of systems belonging to that group.