VxVM Tutorials Installing VxvM in VMware virtual machine Creating Basic volume and file system Volume layouts and layered volumes Comparing layered and non-layered Volumes Root disk Encapsulation and Mirroring Replacing a failed disk under VxVM It is very common now a days to increase the size of mount point or the volume being used in […]
Archives for October 2013
VxVM tutorials : Root disk Encapsulation and Mirroring
VxVM Tutorials Installing VxvM in VMware virtual machine Creating Basic volume and file system Volume layouts and layered volumes Comparing layered and non-layered Volumes Volume resize with vxassist and vxresize Replacing a failed disk under VxVM One of the best feature of VxVM or any volume manager for that matter is redundancy of data. Root […]
VxVM tutorials : Comparing layered and non-layered volumes
VxVM Tutorials Installing VxvM in VMware virtual machine Creating Basic volume and file system Volume layouts and layered volumes Root disk Encapsulation and Mirroring Volume resize with vxassist and vxresize Replacing a failed disk under VxVM You must have thought that, when we can create a simple RAID 1+0 or RAID 0+1 volume, why we […]
VxVM tutorials : Volume layouts and layered volumes
VxVM Tutorials Installing VxvM in VMware virtual machine Creating Basic volume and file system Comparing layered and non-layered Volumes Root disk Encapsulation and Mirroring Volume resize with vxassist and vxresize Replacing a failed disk under VxVM Let us now see different volume layouts that can be created in veritas volume manager. Before diving deep into […]
VxVM Tutorials : Creating Volume and file system
VxVM Tutorials Installing VxvM in VMware virtual machine Volume layouts and layered volumes Comparing layered and non-layered Volumes Root disk Encapsulation and Mirroring Volume resize with vxassist and vxresize Replacing a failed disk under VxVM VxVM allows a system administrator to configure various volume layouts for the volume thus allowing high redundancy and high performance. […]
VxVM Tutorials : Installing VxVM in a VMware Workstation virtual machine
VxVM Tutorials Creating Basic volume and file system Volume layouts and layered volumes Comparing layered and non-layered Volumes Root disk Encapsulation and Mirroring Volume resize with vxassist and vxresize Replacing a failed disk under VxVM For this and all the future tutorials I will be using a test box created in VMware workstation. Let us […]
How to create an I/O domain
An I/O domain has a direct access to the underlying hardware devices. It is used generally in a case where you want performance improvements avoiding the overheads to access the hardware indirectly through control domain. You can create I/O domain is 2 ways: 1. Using the entire PCIe BUS 2. Using a PCIe end point […]
How to save LDOM configuration and restore from xml file
It is necessary to save LDOM configuration to rebuild it in future in case of a hardware failure on the physical server. Now every LDOM has constraints defined which can be saved as xml file. This file will contain all the resource allocation to a LDOM. Saving LDOM configuration To save constraints of a single […]
How to reset LDOM configuration to factory default
The factory-default configuration is the configuration when you first time install the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software on to a fresh Solaris OS. To set the physical server to factory-default configuration : 1. Remove all the guest LDOMs 2. Remove all the saved LDOM configurations 3. Restore the factory default configuration a. from command […]
ZFS Tutorials : Creating ZFS snapshot and clones
ZFS snapshots zfs snapshot is a read-only copy of zfs file system or volume. They consume no extra space in the zfs pool and can be created instantly. They can be used to save a state of file system at particular point of time and can later be rolled back to exactly same state. You […]