Recently I ran into an issue where I had a zpool that wasn’t imported in a system, and I was unable to import it due to zpool version incompatibilities. This can happen if you are going to a older revision of Solaris or if you are crossing platforms between ZFS…
Adventures in ZFS: Rename a Zpool
Renaming a zpool is not as intuitive as I would expect, but it is still pretty simple. We accomplish this through a three step process, export the zpool, import the zpool (using a new name), validate our mountpoints are how we want them (probably using the new zpool name). Now…
BIND 9: Configure Slave Zones
Today we are going over one of the fundamental aspects of administering a DNS infrastructure, that is maintaining consistency across multiple replicas. The simplest method of accomplishing this is to have a master/slave relationship. Essentially you have a read-write (master) copy and a read-only (slave) copy of the zone. The…
Codespaces.com and DevOps: Why We Should Care
Generally on this blog I tend to be far more technologist than pundit, in that I normally don’t write about something unless it has to do with doing something interesting technically. However in this case I think a bit of talk about what happened and why might be in order…
Solaris 11: Install Bind Server
Today I am going to document the process of install BIND in Solaris 11. I am using a Solaris 11.1 zone for this task, though nothing in this is specific to zones, and it should work on previous versions of Solaris 11. I have done this quite a few times…