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Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) cheat sheet

9 Jul 2006 8 minute read 3019 visits.

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

29 Dec 2010 6 minute read 2837 visits.

Sun StorADE software is used for fault management of storage devices. It provides monitoring, notifications, diagnostics, reports, etc.

11 Mar 2006 8 minute read 863 visits.

This article describes how to determine ZFS device failure types, clear transient errors, and replace a device.

11 Mar 2006 2 minute read 781 visits.

If a device cannot be opened, it displays as UNAVAILABLE in the zpool status output.

28 Feb 2006 1 minute read 2611 visits.

SVM provides the ability to create more partitions than the limit of 7 using traditional partitions. Such partitions are called soft partitions.

7 Feb 2005 1 minute read 2955 visits.

There are two way to change block size to get quickly synchronized disks in mirrored system

1 Oct 2008 4 minute read 3742 visits.

Veritas Cluster Server?s Low Latency Transport (LLT) protocol provides fast, kernel-to-kernel communication and monitors network connections.

17 Jan 2005 1 minute read 2688 visits.

Did you know that it is also possible without a volume manager? You just have to know some special arguments to the mkfs command.

5 Nov 2004 6 minute read 2841 visits.

UFS is the primary file system for the Solaris OS. UFS is extremely mature, very stable, and for most applications, is the file system of choice.

21 Feb 2004 4 minute read 4854 visits.

Only a filesys clean operation reclaims the physical storage used by files that are deleted and that are not present in a snapshot.