Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 8, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
In this scenario we are assuming that we have full backup of the new disk. In order to restore the machine exactly the way it was, it is necessary to have a record of the locations of the state databases, and also the configuration of the...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 6, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
It is often possible that we boot from a Solaris machine from one of the root mirror disk, and after sometime we forget current active disk. And the information of active boot disk is important while we perform SVM maintenance disks. This post will help you...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 5, 2014 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Whenever a file system develops inconsistencies because some unexpected issues, the integrity of the file system needs to be verified. UNIX has developed a very sophisticated file system integrity check ,fsck utility, which attempts to verify that all the links and blocks are correctly tied together. This...
Solaris Admin / Solaris ZFS and Boot Environment / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Experts
by Ramdev · Published September 23, 2012
In my earlier hands on lab post ( Hands on Lab – Replacing Failed Disks from ZFS Pools ( Simple / Mirrored / RaidZ )). I have explained the disk failure scenarios for ZPOOL mirror and RaidZ volumes, and this post is just continuation to that...
Storage Administration - SAN / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Yogesh Raheja · Published January 21, 2012 · Last modified July 23, 2016
HBA firmware upgrades on Solaris servers. In continuation to pre works for storage migration, herein I will be presenting HBA Firmware upgrades on Solaris servers (using Emulex & Lpfc utilities). We will be upgrading HBA Firmware from version 2.72a2 to 2.82a4 for HBA Model Model: LPe11002-M4...
Solaris Admin / Storage Administration - SAN / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Yogesh Raheja · Published December 22, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
In this post I will present EMCpowerpath & EMCsymmetrix upgrades on Solaris servers. We will be upgrading EMCpowerpath from version 5.0 to 5.3 & EMCsymmetrix from version v6.4.x to v7.1.x. a. EMCpowerpath upgrade ...
