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 […]
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Resource management in solaris zones : Dynamic Resource pools
Resource pools in solaris 10/solaris 11 provides a mechanism to assign processor set and scheduling class to non-global zone. The resource pool framework is as shown in the figure below. The dynamic resource pools comes in extremely useful when you have a variable load on zones and you want to dynamically change the resource allocation […]
SVM root encapsulation and mirroring [SPARC]
I wouldn’t say Solaris Volume manager is one of the best volume managers out there in the market, but its sure still used in many production setups. Lets us see how we can encapsulate and mirror a root disk under solaris volume manager. The final mirrored root disk setup should look like the one shown […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Installing VCS
Now comes the last step in this series to create a VCS LAB. We need to copy the installation media to one of the VMs. We would use shared folder feature of VMware workstation to copy the install media into the node geek01. To enable sharing goto VM > Settings . On the options tab […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Configuring openfiler
In the last post we have installed the openfiler virtual machine. Let us now configure the openfiler to assign iscsi LUNs to the two solaris 10 virtual machines. Login to the web interface using below credentials Management Interface: https://10.10.10.10:446 Administrator Username: openfiler Administrator Password: password Enabling iSCSI services and adding network Access configuration First step […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Installing openfiler
To configure a shared storage for this setup we’ll be using openfiler. We need to create an openfiler VM with 512 MB RAM and 3 Disks of 500 MB for I/O fencing. Also to install the openfiler OS we need a 10GB HDD. Click on the create new virtual machine icon from home screen to […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Installing solaris
In the last part we went through the overall setup for this home LAB. Lets now dive into installing the two solaris virtual machines. Before we start creating the virtual machines, we need to setup the 2 networks (one for connecting the VMs from outside and one for openfiler storage). 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 – Connecting the VMs […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : The Setup
I always wanted to have my own VCS cluster LAB where I could do my RnD. Which is generally not possible in the production setup (off course !). So I decided to build this awesome home LAB with VMWare workstation on my laptop. Note : The software iSCSI software used for this setup does not […]
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 […]
ZFS Tutorials : Creating ZFS pools and file systems
Creating a ZFS pool We can create a ZFS pool using different devices as: a. using whole disks b. using disk slices c. using files a. Using whole disks # echo | format Searching for disks…done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c1t0d0 /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0 1. c1t1d0 <VMware,-VMware Virtual S-1.0-1.00GB> /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0 2. c1t2d0 /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@2,0 3. c1t3d0 /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@3,0 4. […]