In many of the environments that I deliver to a client we have a concept of an “environment account” this account is the credential set that the environment runs as. Over time and the maturation of the Service Management Facility (SMF) we have been able to simplify this offering and…
ZFS: Send and Receive
ZFS gives us the ability to move data with ZFS send and receive. This can be used to combine snapshots, create full or incremental backups, or replicate data between servers on your LAN or even over the WAN. Local Backup with Send This is very simple, simply perform a send…
Adventures in ZFS: Solaris 11.1 Share Properties
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: Deletion of a Recursive Snapshot Set
Quite often I will find it necessary to create a recursive snapshot over a large number of ZFS file systems. In this case, I find that frequently have little long term need for them, and need a quick and easy way of disposing of the snapshots created without spending large…