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NetWorker 8.1 VMware Backup and Recovery Demo

This video will show NetWorker integration with VMware vCenter, including backup and recovery using the vSphere Web Client and NMC

NetWorker 8.1 Snapshot Management Demo

This video covers the prerequisites for configuring Snapshot Management, as well as using the client configuration wizard to create a client.

Patching Solaris with PCA

Not only does PCA generate a list of patches and downloads them, it also resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in the correct order

ZFS Raid and RAIDZ techniques

With ZFS filesystem, RAIDZ is very popular as it gives the best tradeoff of hardware failure protection versus storage.

How to allow root login on Solaris 11

After your installation of Solaris 11 has completed, you will not be able to login directly to the console as the root user

Testing ping with jumbo frames

Depending on the OS you are running determinas which command and options to use in your testing.

DNS lookup process

When a name query from a client computer cannot be resolved locally, DNS servers can be queried as needed to resolve the name.