I am running an Oracle Linux for SPARC ldom and had a couple boot issues recently. This may help getting past boot issues. First issue was because I had a cdrom attached to the ldom and that path was not valid. Like unmounted NFS path for example. That caused a…
Expanding a Solaris RPOOL
For reference I have a couple older articles on this topic here: http://blog.ls-al.com/growing-a-solaris-ldom-rpool/ http://blog.ls-al.com/zfs-grow-rpool-disk/ Specifically this article is what I did recently on a SPARC LDOM to expand the RPOOL. The RPOOL OS disk is a SAN shared LUN in this case. After growing the LUN to 50G on the…
Live Migrate Oracle VM for SPARC Logical Domains
Short version of live migration between two T5-2’s. Using shared fiber LUN’s. Source Host: Check running status: Dry run first: We have a couple issues. Target Host: Fix the virtual device reference. Check status on target. I suggest also running a ping during the whole process.