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Firefox scrolling on Solaris

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Solaris will try to paste the top most thing in your clipboard when you click your middle mouse button.

Assigning a Volume Name to a Solaris disk

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Having a large number of disks can be a challange for sysadmins. By giving each disk a volume name may make it easier.

Cluster Cheat Sheet

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This cheat sheet contains common commands and resources for Sun Cluster, Veritas VCS, IBM HACMP, Redhat-HA and HP ServiceGuard cluster environments.

Troubleshooting common NFS errors

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Over the years I have seen some of the most common NFS Error/Issues which occurs in very common now and then to most of Solaris system admins.

Troubleshooting various NFS errors

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Identifying and solving a problem is called troubleshooting, which is arguably the most difficult task in any area of computers. NFS is no exception.

Backup and Recover VxVM Disk Configuration

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How to backup Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) configuration for a disk group and use the backup to recover the disk group configuration

Solaris performance monitoring using K9 toolkit

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In a nuyshell, the K9Toolkit is a collection of tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9 server to help locate performance bottlenecks.