In Solaris 11.1 Oracle decided to change the way that they stored filesystem share information. I personally loved the change, but that was without understanding what the change really was. For more information on how to enable NFS exports see my previous article here. Setup Our Environment Everything we are…
Solaris Networking: IP Multipathing Protocol
In this article we are going to go over some basics of using IPMP in Solaris. We will discuss this on the latest versions of Solaris 10 and 11 on the SPARC platform, these instructions should also work on the x86 platform, but will be dependent on the listed version…
Adventures in ZFS: NFS Exports on Solaris 10 and 11
So with ZFS you really have two ways of configuring your NFS exports, you can do it the old fashioned way (read: /etc/dfs/dfstab and share command). Or the super-duper easy method… Use ZFS metadata, and allow ZFS to configure the export for you. The reason why you might choose this…
Keste is Hiring
Generally I don’t use my blog as a platform to find potential applicants for my employer, however at this point we are looking very seriously at some new candidates to fill out our Systems Team. This is a job that is very much “Systems” focused. At Keste we define Systems…
Powerconnect: Configure Link Aggregation Groups
Today we will be configuring LACP to interconnect some switch stacks as part of a network upgrade. Please keep in mind that part of configuring the LAG will result in the ports losing connectivity, so while it is not necessary to use a console cable, please keep in mind how…