Hot swapping of a failed disk is fairly straight procedure if the disks are regular SCSI disks, but for the Fibre Channel (FC) disks we should follow different procedure for hot swaping. Below specific procedure should be used when replacing one of the internal disks in a system with internal fibre drives (Sun Fire 280R, [...]

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How Jumpstart Works:     First Level Boot Process 1) When the “boot net – install” command is issued at the ok prompt, the JumpStart client looks for a Jumpstart boot server. 2) The boot server responds to the rarp request via the “rarpd” daemon (in.rarpd). Using the information in the /etc/ethers file, the server [...]

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    Enterprise Network Architecture Let us assume that we are talking about a company named “ABC Finance Ltd”, which is  providing financial services to various Domestic, International organisations  and as well for individuals using it’s highly sophisticated IT(Information Technology) services.  Various  clients from different regions of the globe connects to ABC firm using some dedicated [...]

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Below are the steps are to be performed on the the FTP server (i.e., the system that is being ftp’d to).   By default, the FTP server will timeout an inactive session after 15 minutes.

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Volume Manager failed during the boot process, and we would like to boot from encapsulated root disk without vxvm.  This assumes that the root disk mirror has not been corrupted yet!

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With the release of Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the configuration of Storage Area Network (SAN), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) attached devices, and turning on STMS/MPXIO has changed. This Post details the new ways devices are brought into the operating system, and their configuration files. The default way Solaris 10 handles SAN/SAS attached devices is [...]

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