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Growing a Solaris LDOM rpool

This is a procedure that might be useful if you ever have to grow a Solaris VTOC /SMI partition containing

Solaris has built-in IP Multi Pathing. IPMP can be setup with either IP tracking or link based. This is my

Ever run a very large job and regretting not starting it in the excellent screen utility? If you don’t have

Sometimes you have a VM that you just don’t care about security. I do the following to cheat a little

I haven’t tried this yet in a real world example. In some instances you might be moving large amounts of

I recently had to touch a pretty old AIX OS and it frustrated me not to have human readable output

I recently had an issue where the Solaris SMF did not want to update my /etc/resolv.conf file. Even though “svccfg

I had to do the following to display a X terminal remotely. Solaris 10: This initial Solaris install was done

By default Solaris 10 use “/” as root’s home directory and plain sh as a shell. If you want to

Solaris use Role Based Access which is a better way to allow system access to defined users and only escalate