Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / VCS Fundamentals / VCS Maintenance / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / Veritas Cluster Services
by Ramdev · Published September 24, 2021
Sample VCS configuration file for single Oracle instance Review the sample configuration with a resource of type Oracle that is configured as follows in main.cf file. The shared disk groups and volumes in the cluster are configured as resources of type DiskGroup and Volume respectively....
The most common Veritas Volume Manager Operation that we do in everyday sysadmin job is, resizing Veritas volumes. In this below post we are discussing some of the scenarios to resize different types of veritas volumes.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Storage Configs for Unixadmin / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published September 21, 2021
In this post I am talking about some of the observations on how Solaris determines the controller numbers Below are 3 common scenarios encountered by customers: 1) A jumpstart is done with nothing but an internal disk and DVD on the system. -Assigns cdrom C0 -Assigns internal fcal...
Here we discuss about how to use ‘ipmitool’ to collect information on platform events, sensors, status LEDs, and hardware components, from the Service Processor (SP). It also covers the use of ipmitool for platform startup & shutdown, and SP reconfiguration.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published September 15, 2021
NOTE: 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 metadevices. These are *not* held in user-readable form on the root filesystem, so it...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris 10 Zones & LDOMs / Solaris Admin
by Ramdev · Published September 12, 2021
Instructions to Verify the Configuration of Non-global Zones: 1. The zonecfg utility creates and modifies the configuration of a zone. Its subcommand verify can be used to verify the current configuration for correctness: All resources have all of their required properties specified. A zonepath is specified...
This post describes how to select the firmware, the firmware upgrade method and upgrade the system firmware on Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 server Firmware Verification 1. To determine the current System Firmware revision installed on the system, from the System Controller command-line interface...
Solaris Admin / Storage Administration - SAN / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Yogesh Raheja · Published September 6, 2021
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 ...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Maintenance / VxVM Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published September 1, 2021
Volume Manager failed during the boot process, and we would like to boot from encapsulated root disk without vxvm. This assumes that the root disk mirror has not been corrupted yet!
This problem is not common to all the versions and releases but specific to the released of Solaris 8 and 9 ( I am not able to get those number clearly to mention here)
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