Category Archives: Solaris 10

Restoring File From UFSdump Backup

Here’s what we did today on one of our Solaris box that is worth mentioning on this cool super system administrator’s blog ‘o mine! (Don’t you find it cool that SysAds are so funny?!) Anyhoo, today we re-jumpstarted a laboratory box because the ‘owner’ of it wants it back. Since we pretty much messed it … Continue reading

Building ZFS Mirrored File System Example

I’ve writted something about the Zeta file system before… It’s like some sort of an intro to the filesystem. This post will be the first of series of post in configuring ZFS on a test machine, a Sun-Fire-V240 running Solaris 10. # uname -a SunOS sedm3205 5.10 Generic_137111-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Anyhow, first topic will … Continue reading

Watch-Net and Watch-Net-All Diagnostics

This is the first post regarding the On-site training to make MNL SAs up to speed to support the company’s production servers. This week’s topic… building the server through Jumpstarting (yeah, solaris sparc servers). Watch-Net and Watch-Net-All Diagnostics The watch-net and watch-net-all diagnostics monitor Ethernet packets on the Ethernet interfaces connected to the system. Good … Continue reading

OpenSolaris Launch – May 5, 2008!

Better late to mention than never.. . Monday, May 5 at 10 a.m. PT is the live webcast from CommunityOne, where Sun will launch the new, free and easy-to-use OpenSolaris OS, a leading-edge open source release with world-class support and unique, innovative features. Mark your calendar.. sabagay, bukas na eto.. hehehe Arlo Gilbert

Solaris ZFS Rocks!!

Zettabyte File System (ZFS) is claiming to be “The Most Advanced File System on the Planet”! What is ZFS? ZFS is a proprietary file system from Solaris ZFS is a file system designed and developed by Sun MIcrosystem for Solaris Operating System. ZFS or Zettabyte File System will solve all of the problem any administrator … Continue reading