When Solaris 11 was released more configurations were moved into the service management framework, and moved out of configuration files, one of these changes was the hostname/nodename. View Hostname in SMF This will read back the configuration out of the SMF. Change Hostname in SMF We have two separate settings,…
Solaris Virtualization: Using Zones
Solaris has the ability to do two types of Virtualization, if you are using SPARC hardware you can use Logical Domains, which has been re-branded as Oracle VM for SPARC. Or regardless of your architecture you can use Solaris Zones, which is really much more like Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, and Linux…
Adventures in ZFS: Configuring iSCSI Targets
The most critical thing about any storage implementation is flexibility. This means that you need to be able to adapt your solution to changing environmental considerations. The nice thing about a ZFS-based solution is that all of the building blocks are available. If you want to use it as a…
Adventures in ZFS: Crucial M4 Firmware SMART Issue
Let me preface this article by stating that this issue is NOT a ZFS issue or a Solaris issue. Previously I documented a issue in which the Crucial M4 SSD would “hesitate” causing ZFS to see it as faulted. This was promptly fixed in v0002 of their firmware. That issue…
Solaris 11: User Renames Not Simple Anymore
As part of the Solaris 11 Express Installation, you are required to create a named user, which is then the account you can log in as, no root for you. Anyways the problem here is that we had some machines which we subsequently wanted to change the name. Normally this…