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Making Stripped Volume with VxVM

Posted on February 27th, 2010

From time to time I need to create temporary volume for copying some large data files or something like that..
This is how to make veritas driven stripped volume from bunch of FC disks.

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Configuring XSCF on Sun M4k server

Posted on February 26th, 2010

This a procedure for configuring XSCF system controller on Sun Mx000 servers. To start, connect to
xscf with serial connection.

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Sun L25 LTO-1 Tape Library Booting

Posted on February 25th, 2010

Sun L25 LTO-1 Tape Library Prism System controller boot messages.

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Sun Enterprise M4000 Server’s XSCF booting

Posted on February 25th, 2010

Starting “Enterprise hardware linux inside” series.

Sun Enterprise M4000 Server’s XSCF booting. Console log.

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Removing FC disks from Veritas VM control

Posted on February 11th, 2010

We need to destroy number of raid groups belonging to some array and remove disks from OS and Volume manager control. The following procedure is the note on how I did this with Hitachi AMS500 and Solaris 9.

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Simple template-like smf configuration

Posted on February 10th, 2010

Creation of new services in Solaris 10 is simple. The following example covers configuring and starting snmptrapd daemon. Example may be used as a template for simple services, quick and dirty way.
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