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Archives for December 2013

How to replace a disk under ZFS in Solaris

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How to replace a Failed disk under VxVM How to replace failed root disk under Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) Let us discuss 3 different cases for a disk failure under ZFS. 1. The drive went offline and came online. 2. Drive actually failed. New drive in place with same target number. 3. Drive actually failed. […]

Filed Under: Solaris, ZFS

Solaris 10 boot process : x86/x64

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Solaris 10 boot process : SPARC In the last post we saw the boot process in solaris 10 on SPARC platform. The boot process on x86/x64 hardware is bit different than the SPARC hardware. The x86/x64 hardware also involves the 5 step boot process, same as the SPARC hardware. Refer the flow diagram below. Boot […]

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Solaris 10 boot process : SPARC

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Solaris 10 boot process : SPARC Solaris 10 boot process : x86/x64 The boot process for SPARC platform involves 5 phases as shown in the diagram below. There is a slight difference in booting process of a SPARC based and x86/x64 based solaris operating system. Boot PROM phase 1. The boot PROM runs the power […]

Filed Under: Solaris Tagged With: boot process, Solaris

17 Examples of using Solaris boot command

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The solaris boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. Syntax The common syntax of boot command is solaris SPARC system is : ok> boot [device-specifier] [arguments] The Common Boot [device-specifier]s are : 1. Disk 2. cdrom 3. net (network boot image) 4. url (jumpstart) Example 1 : Normal Boot […]

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Troubleshooting Solaris IPMP

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How to configure Solaris 10 Probe based IPMP How to configure Solaris 10 Link Based IPMP Solaris IP multipathing provides the high availability and load balancing capability to the networking stack. It makes sure to avoid any single point of failure on network side. We may face issues while configuring and even after configuring IPMP. […]

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Solaris Performance troubleshooting : Disk (I/O) performance issues

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An I/O performance bottleneck can be due to a disk or even due to a HBA or a HBA driver. The command iostat (Input output statistics) help us to get started with analyzing a disk I/O bottleneck issue. A standard iostat output would look like : # iostat -xn 1 5 extended device statistics r/s […]

Filed Under: Solaris

12 iostat examples for Solaris performance troubleshooting

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Iostat is one of the most useful command when troubleshooting a disk I/O performance issue. It can also be used to troubleshoot a CPU performance issue as well. The iostat command can be run in various ways. Summary since boot By default if you run iostat without any options it will show the summary since […]

Filed Under: Solaris

Script for finding the process using a specific port in Solaris

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Many times it is required to know which process is running on a specific port. The application which you are installing may be giving an error such as “can not bind the port” or “the port is already in use”. In these cases we can determine which process has blocked the port. There are also […]

Filed Under: Solaris

How to disable IPv6 in Solaris 11

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In contrast to solaris 10, during the Solaris 11 installation, the installer does not ask to disable IPv6. When you assign IP address using ipadm create command, it also create an IPv6 interface. Even if you delete the IPv6 interfaces with “ipadm delete-addr ” and “ifconfig inet6 unplumb“, after rebooting the system you would see […]

Filed Under: Solaris 11

Examples of adding static routes in Solaris

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Static Vs Dynamic routes Static routes are added using the route command either by a script or by using command line. Dynamic routes are added by some routing daemon. Daemons that are responsible for adding dynamic routes that are currently bundled/supported with Solaris are /usr/sbin/in.routed (Routing Information Protocol(RIP)) and /usr/sbin/in.rdisc (Router Network Discovery Protocol). Using […]

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