Solaris 11 for SPARC, as well as previous versions of Solaris, include a neat little technology called Logical Domains (which has been rebranded as Oracle VM for SPARC). Logical Domains are implemented in the SPARC processor. This series is going to focus on the basic administration of a Logical Domains…
Solaris 11 on SPARC: What the Piss is the OK Prompt
I have finally got my hands on some SPARC gear, and I am making use of it by documenting the crap out of it. So after I got the ILOM situation sorted out I noticed that the OS itself wasn’t starting up, and I was just ending up at a…
Solaris 11: Permit Root Logins Locally and via SSH
In Solaris 11, a secondary user is created as part of the installation process, the text installation allows you to bypass this, but even if you do you will be unable to login as root to perform any configurations, even though you set the password as part of the setup. …
Upgrade Solaris 11 Express to Solaris 11
Check Current Version The important thing to notice here is snv_151a, which means that it is Solaris 11 Express. Display the Current IPS Repositories This will show you the repositories configured on your system. Configure the IPS Repository If you don’t already have the repository configured you will need…
Solaris 11: DNS Client Configuration Using Svccfg
In Solaris 11, alot of configurations are being moved from configuration files into the Service Management Framework. Here we will discuss this change around the DNS client. View Existing DNS Client Configuration Update Existing DNS Client Configuration Here we will update our name servers. In this case we are replacing…