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Replacing a failed SCSI disk in Solstice DiskSuite (no reboot)

2 Sep 2002 2 minute read 2813 visits.

A simple procedure to replace a failed SCSI disks which is mirrored with Solstice DiskSuite without the need to reboot the Solaris server.

1 Jul 2003 1 minute read 2794 visits.

Cumulative hotfixes are periodically issued. They combine various individual hotfixes that might have an impact on customer production environments

24 Jun 1999 4 minute read 3006 visits.

A full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, so we will focus on the most common cases, how to set them up, manage them and maintain them.

15 Jun 1999 3 minute read 2778 visits.

A Solaris utility that allows tasks to be scheduled at regular intervals via the cron daemon. The crontab is the file containing the scheduled tasks.

1 May 2000 6 minute read 1533 visits.

Integrates and scales from single to thousands of servers and desktops, storage components and applications running on Solaris

5 Aug 1999 1 minute read 3197 visits.

Y2000 Compliance requires patched version 3.2.5 or later. The patched versions are down-loadable free of charge from the following ftp sites.

21 May 1999 1 minute read 2708 visits.

There is a rather nasty bug in Vxfs 3.3.1 that appears to manifest itself into a backup problem.

26 Apr 1999 1 minute read 2642 visits.

A metatrans device is identical to any other kind of metadevice. In order to configure the device it is assumed there is a free slice on each disk.

26 Apr 1999 2 minute read 2561 visits.

Sun's Fast Ethernet card is one of the most commonly encountered pieces of hardware on a Solaris system. Internally nicknamed happy meal.

29 Mar 1999 1 minute read 3636 visits.

Overwriting a disk with the format command is usually enough for most purposes, because it greatly reduces the chance that any data can be recovered.