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by Ramdev · Published September 26, 2022
Re-adding a disk is same procedure as replacing a failed disk, except we use same disk. We have to detach the disk from vxvm, so that the VxVM will detect the disk failure and will cease access to the failed disk. You can then perform...
Step1 : Collect the information about Unstartable Volumes: i) List the Unstartable volumes # vxinfo –g mydg
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by Ramdev · Published September 24, 2022
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by Shujat Husain · Published September 23, 2022
To access website, we use easy to read & remember website address but these websites addresses are not what get us to a website, these addresses are created just so we can remember them easily. On the back of these addresses, what actually get us to...
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by Ramdev · Published September 22, 2022
It is so common that servers encounter issues related to hardware and those errors cannot be diagnosed by Operating system level utilities. To perform preliminary diagnosis and to pin point the hardware trouble, system admins have to rely on OBP (Open Boot PROM) diagnosis options. at OBP level,...
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by Ramdev · Published September 21, 2022
::: Simple/Nopriv Disks in the Boot Disk Group If simple or nopriv disks in the boot disk group, bootdg, go into the “error” state, use the following procedure: 1. Use the vxdiskadm command to change back to the c#t#d#s# based naming scheme. 2. Either shut down...
Whenever we detect a new disk in Solaris operating system, the first operation we perform is “Disk label” using the format command. The purpose of this post is to explain the background information of Solaris default disk labeling and also discuss the EFI disk labeling introduced...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Booting / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published September 19, 2022
How Jumpstart Works: First Level Boot Process 1) When the “boot net – install” command is issued at the ok prompt, the JumpStart client looks for a Jumpstart boot server. 2) The boot server responds to the rarp request via the “rarpd” daemon (in.rarpd)....
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by Ramdev · Published September 18, 2022
When trying to access a soft partition after a disk replacement, the metareplace command or any direct I/O to a soft partition will fail with the following types of errors: In an instance where d68 is the mirror device, and d28 is a soft partition inside one of...
A slave DNS server is similar to a master DNS server. It can help with load balancing and provide redundancy should the master DNS server fail. Because it serves as a “secondary” DNS server, it actually pulls the necessary files from its master counterpart, making configuration...
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