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…
Solaris 11: Defining A Service Using Svcbundle and the SMF
Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone). I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions. However I would like to take advantage of…