Oracle Solaris 11.4 ZFS Device Removal Example One of the new features in the recent Solaris 11.4 release(that rely rocks), is, ZFS Device Removal. Below I am going to demonstrated one example, on how you can use ZFS Device Removal. The example below show how migrated a pool from raidz1 => mirrored pool. First, lets …
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Capturing Your Own Solaris 11.4 (12) Analytics By Using Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) – Part 5 Note: The full code is available in a GitHub repository. to play with the code, feel free to clone the Solaris Analytics Publisher Repository. This is part 5 out of a series of articles on how to use Oracle …
Using ldapsearch to do an LDAP Search using TLS/SSL In older / previous versions of Solaris (pre-Solaris 12/11.4) ldapsearch was based on the original Netscape ldapsearch using a different syntex. Searching for a user was something like the syntax below. ldapsearch -Z -P /var/ldap -h ldap.domain.com -p 1636 -b dc=domain,dc=com uid=usera dn In more recent …
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Oracle finally releases Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta I have been waiting for the Oracle Solaris 12 release for a while now. While its clear that Solaris 12 will not be released, but that doesn’t mean the end of Solaris (updates), in fact most of the work going in to Solaris 12 (hopefully) got pushed back …
Master Index Of Posts Related to Oracle Solaris 11.4 / Solaris 12 Articles Below you will find links on this blog to articles related to Oracle Solaris 11.4 / Solaris 12. Creating A DevOps Like Environment In Oracle Solaris 11.3/11.4 By Using RAD And REST – Part 1 Creating A DevOps Like Environment In Oracle …
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Solaris 11/12 PF Firewall NAT Configuration Below is an update on how to configure NAT in Solaris 11/12, the original post used IPfilter(IPF). Since Solaris now officially switched to the BSD firewall(PF) I created the updated example below. Assumptions The network used in the kernel zones are 10.10.1.0/24 The network used on the global zone …
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Mounting SMB / CIFS Shares in Solaris 11 Today I came across the need to mount a CIFS share on a Solaris server. The first thing you got a do, is set a user / password, you can do so by running the below. smbadm show-shares -t nas1.domain.com -u admin1 Next, lest enable the SMB …
Installing and configuring a Bind DNS server on Solaris I was recently working with an openstack installation in a Solaris environment, and to simplify the configuration I had the need to configure my own DNS server. Below are the steps required to configure a Solaris 12(11.x) DNS server, the config was using BIND 9.x. Note: …
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Adding a launcher shortcut in Gnome 3.x Example of a shortcut is below, place this in one of two places. /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/vlc.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=MPlayer Name[en_US]=MPlayer GenericName=Media player Comment=Read, broadcast your multimedia streams Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/opt/SMM/mplayer/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/mplayer.png Exec=/opt/SMM/mplayer/bin/gmplayer TryExec=/opt/SMM/mplayer/bin/gmplayer-org Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/opt/SMM/mplayer/share/icons/hicolor/32×32/apps/mplayer.png Categories=AudioVideo;Player;Recorder; Keywords=Player;Capture;DVD;Audio;Video;Server;Broadcast; An example of a NetBeans shortcut /usr/share/applications/netbeans.desktop netbeans.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application …
Contents 1 Cofiguring Multipathing 1.1 Install Multipath Package. 1.2 Enable The Multipathing Service. 1.3 List Multipath Disks 2 Zoning FC On Linux 2.1 Find the WWN for the Ports 2.2 Issuing a LIP on the HBA 2.3 Fibre Channel Commands 3 Disk Configuration. 3.1 About Device Names And Paths In A Multipath Configuration 3.1.1 Physical …