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Cleaning up the Live Upgrade environment

A simple process to cleanup the LiveUpgrade configuration for the solenv1 and alternative boot environments without impacting the system.

How to test phone home on Celerra

A simple step-by-step guide on how to test phone home on a Celerra system

Restoring data using scanner and uasm

Sometimes we need to recover data from the tapes which are well beyond Browse & Retention Policies

An introduction to Solaris Zones

This post is an introduction to the new virtual technology introduced from Sun Microsystems, namely Solaris Zones (not containers)

Disabling Spotlight under Mac OS X (updated)

If like me you're not a fan of Spotlight and want to disable it completely then you can hese simple steps.

Sending a ZFS snaphot

You can use the zfs send command to send a copy of a snapshot stream and receive the snapshot stream in another pool

ZFS Send and Receive

ZFS has the ability to send and receive data. This can be used to combine snapshots, create backups, or replicate data between servers

How to run SPcollect on a Celerra box

This article provides the simple steps needed to gather SPCollects from a Celerra box