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Solaris Volume Manager Overview

24 Jun 1999 4 minute read 2906 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 2692 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 1414 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 3138 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 2640 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 2575 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 2486 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 3554 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.

26 Mar 1999 1 minute read 2580 visits.

Sun StorEdge A5x00 disk arrays require a minimum number of disks to be installed and placed in certain slots to ensure proper operation of the array.

12 Jul 2002 2 minute read 2477 visits.

This article provides a quick reference guide to the supported disk configuration on a Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage array.