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How to build a Solaris Branded Zone

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This is a standard question for Solaris administrators who unfortunately have requirements for an older Solaris 9 kernel for a legacy application.

Restarting the Avamar Management Console Server (MCS)

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The Avamar Management Console Server provides centralized management including scheduling of backups, restore of backups, monitoring and reporting.

Enabling and adding NIC teaming to a virtual machine

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Although you can add NIC teaming to a virtual machine, it's not a Hyper-V feature but functionality of the Windows Server used for network workload

Converting VHD files to VHDX files

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Microsoft have been using the VHD format since the one created by Connectix in 1995 to allow Windows 3.1 to run on Mac computers.

Using the Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer

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The Best Practice Analyzer for Hyper-V has 74 scans to identify which settings are not configured, based on the Microsoft documentation and practices.

Installing EMC PowerPath on Solaris

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EMC PowerPath for Solaris automates data path management, failover and recovery, and optimizes load balancing to ensure application availability.

Autosave Oracle VM configuration

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The autosave feature is to ensure a copy of the current configuration is automatically saved whenever the Logical Domains configuration is changed.