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Sun Management Center - A Technical Overview

1 May 2000 6 minute read 1622 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 3241 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 2760 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 2697 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 2642 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 3745 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 2701 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 2630 visits.

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

19 Feb 1999 1 minute read 2751 visits.

The st.conf is the configiuration file for the st (SCSI Tape) driver on the Solaris Operating System.

5 Jan 1999 1 minute read 2797 visits.

Ever needed to get Solaris to detect disks; the method depends on the version of Solaris. This article provides a how to