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Oracle Solaris

Oracle Solaris Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

There are 7 posts filed in Oracle Solaris (this is page 1 of 1).

Unable to Create/Delete Link Aggregation Using dladm

I was working on the network part of some Solaris servers today, this involved deleting and recreating things like vnic, interface and link aggregation. The planned configuration look like this one: image from http://docs.oracle.com/ After deleting all the network configuration from the LDOM, I wasn’t able to recreate the link aggregation, the following error was shown: […]

in Oracle Solaris | 264 Words | Comment

Understanding ZFS Pool – Part 2 of 2 – Tutorial

This is the second part of Understanding ZFS Pool articles series, where i’m trying to simplify things and to address the most used ZFS file system features. In the first part, we saw how to use physical disks to create a zfs pool and how to troubleshoot and replace failed devices. In this part we […]

in Oracle Solaris | 1,274 Words | Comment

Understanding ZFS Pool – Part 1 of 2 – Tutorial

Zpool or zfs pool are the base layer on which we create zfs file system, this pool can be constructed in different way to accomplish the desired redundancy. ZFS pool can be created in three different RAID configuration: RAID 0: No protection is available using this configuration, as you write data it get distributed across the […]

in Oracle Solaris | 1,360 Words | Comment

Solaris Installation Guide on VMware Workstation

Solaris installation guide will be the first in a series of tutorials designed to build an Oracle Solaris environment where we can discuss and learn step by step. This install will be based on Solaris 11.3. The final goal will be to discuss more advanced topic like Oracle solaris cluster, network virtualization, patch management and […]

in Oracle Solaris | 664 Words | Comment

Understanding ZFS Clone – Tutorial

We saw in my previous article that zfs snapshot is a read-only copy of a dataset which can be used as a backup mechanism to rollback the system to it’s previous state, this can be useful before application upgrade or patching. The other feature that is related to zfs snapshot is the zfs clone, which […]

in Oracle Solaris | 642 Words | Comment

Understanding ZFS Encryption – Tutorial

Using ZFS encryption is straightforward, we can protect our file system using a passphrase which can be specified during the file system mount operation or using a key file (wrapping key) that allow the file system to be mounted automatically. Let’s quickly review some advantage and requirement for encrypted zfs file system. Advantages: Strong encryption: […]

in Oracle Solaris | 802 Words | 2 Comments

Understanding ZFS Snapshot – Tutorial

ZFS file system offer many feature that can help us during our day to day administration tasks, one of this feature is the zfs snapshot which can be used for backup purpose including full and incremental backup or rolling back a system to a previous state. ZFS snapshot can be created quickly and they consume nothing, […]

in Oracle Solaris | 1,380 Words | Comment

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