Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris User Authentication
by Ramdev · Published July 5, 2011
How many of you noticed below warning message during your attempt to connect remote hosts using SSH ” Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! “ If you are the one wondering the meaning of this warning, you should go through this...
In this post we are basically covering the procedure to replace a failed disk under SVM in solaris. Replacement of a Failed Disk in Solaris (SVM – In Solaris Volume Manager) TO REPLACE FAILED DISK IN THE SYSTEM: First of all take the backups of...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published July 19, 2021
If Fibre Channel devices are not present or turned off, boot errors will occur. Without corrective action, these errors will persist for every re-boot. The boot errors which are linked to this problem, can be found in the /var/adm/messages file, and are formatted as follows:
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published April 3, 2022
Procedure to expand default partition table using native OS utilities: Note: Because the partition table will be removed and rewritten, the following procedure is appropriate ONLY when the file system on the disk has been created on slice 2 and spans the entire Symmetrix volume. The following...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published December 19, 2011 · Last modified August 5, 2016
Assuming there is not a mixture of SUN and NON-SUN FC HBAs in server, (ie. all HBAs from same vendor) if one of the HBAs is down looking at other HBAs in server will tell us if HBAs in server are SUN Branded or not. These...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011
This post will help to troubleshoot the DMP having following Symptoms – Path offline – Path doesn’t failover – Can’t see device path
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published November 10, 2021
The steps below will help to confirm that the HBA is visible to the OS and the devices can be seen from the HBA.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011
The steps below will help confirm that STMS is being used and both paths are seen. 1. Validate that STMS is enabled: Check that the mpxio-disable parameter is set to “no”. *Solaris[TM] 7,8,9 — check /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf *Solaris[TM] 10 only — /kernel/drv/fp.conf Example: mpxio-disable=”no”; If mpxio-disable is...
Information Centers / Rhel6 Storage / Site Reference / Solaris Disk Management / Sticky posts / Storage Configs for Unixadmin / Storage for Unix Admin / Storage Migrations
by Ramdev · Published September 16, 2015 · Last modified September 19, 2019
Read – SAN Guide for Beginners Read – SAN Storage Responsibilities for Enterprise System Administrators Read – Pre-Planning/Pre-work required for Storage Migrations in Unix. Read – SCSI Guide for Beginners Read – EMC Power Path commands for system administrators Read – Determine WWN for HBA...
Herein I will present the procedure on how to add a new disk to an SVM which is part of sun cluster 3.2 which indeed is used in to extend an existing FS in SUN Cluster. Note: Concepts of metasets in SVM and multipating in solaris...
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