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Sun StorADE (Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment)

Updated 29 Dec 2010 Read time 6 min(s) 54 sec(s) (2710 visits).

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

Published 11 Mar 2006 Read time 8 min(s) 39 sec(s) (732 visits).

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

Published 11 Mar 2006 Read time 2 min(s) 21 sec(s) (647 visits).

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

Published 28 Feb 2006 Read time 33 sec(s) (2508 visits).

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

Published 7 Feb 2005 Read time 52 sec(s) (2819 visits).

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

Updated 1 Oct 2008 Read time 4 min(s) 37 sec(s) (3572 visits).

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

Published 17 Jan 2005 Read time 42 sec(s) (2555 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.

Published 5 Nov 2004 Read time 6 min(s) 15 sec(s) (2723 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.

Published 21 Feb 2004 Read time 4 min(s) 44 sec(s) (4688 visits).

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

Published 4 Jan 2004 Read time 1 min 14 sec(s) (2557 visits).

How to mount and unmount an ISO CD-ROM image as a local file system on various UNIX platforms.