Category Archives: ZFS

ZFS Cheat Sheet Including Zpool, Quotas and Reservations

Sorry for the long title post. I just want to easily distinguish this post from my other ZFS post. The reason? For this week, I’ll be working on a server with ZFS filesystem and looks like the SAs for the servers is not yet familiar with the filesystem. I am the newest member of the … Continue reading

Exiting from Container Console if forgot to specify an escape character…

Once you have a non-global zone installed or running on a Solaris 10 installation, it is often useful to connect to the console of the zone. This provides the same control over the zone as connecting to the console of a physical server running Solaris. To connect to the console of a Solaris 10 zone … Continue reading

How to Consolidate Servers and Applications using Solaris Containers

I am subscribe to the official Sun Microsystem newsletter and I got this one directly from my inbox that I want to share to every Solaris SysAdmin out there: This How-To Guide instructs users, system administrators, and developers unfamiliar with Solaris 10 OS on consolidating applications onto a single server using Solaris Containers technology. The … 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