I came across this issue on my newly built Solaris 10 server. I was able to ping a remote machine by Ip address, but not by its hostname. This indicated that I had the correct route and gateway. Using nslookup…
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How to map to a remote NFS directory from a VMware ESX 4 server.
I ran into this error while trying to mount a NFS directory on a remote server from my Vmware ESX4 server. My Vmware esx server is called esx4-server and the remote NFS server is called remote-server. I executed the mount…
Sun Sparc commands to power on and boot up the server.
Booting up the Sun Sparc M3000 server. After logging into the XSCF console, power on the server. XSCF> poweron -d 0 DomainIDs to power on:00 Continue? [y|n] :y Switch to the server console. XSCF> console -d 0 Connect to DomainID…
Booting up Solaris 10 from a SAN replicated LUN on a different Sun SPARC server
The quickest way to recover from a total disaster is to have some sort of replication implemented. There are two different methods of real-time replication, hardware and software. My experiences with software replication such as Symantec Veritas Volume replicator for…
How to get the network card speed in Solaris 9
To determine the network card speed in Solaris 9 use the ndd utility. First list the NIC installed and active on the Solaris 9 server. # ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849 mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 hme0: flags=1000843…
How to relocate the /export and /export/home filesystems on Solaris 10.
By default Solaris installs the /export and /export/home filesystems in the root zfs pool, if you picked ZFS and not UFS as the filesystem. I wanted to relocate /export and /export/home to a larger ZFS pool other than the root…
How to rebuild a Solaris 10 server using the ZFS Root Pool Snapshots
Solaris 10 has provides the ability to recover from a disk drive failure using ZFS root pool snapshots. The snapshot can also be used to quickly rebuild a new server in the event of a disaster. Snapshot is different from…
Changing the default boot device on a Sparc server
You can display and change the default boot device on a SUN Sparc server from the eeprom console. List the bootable devices with the devalias command, ok devalias cdrom /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@4,0:f net /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4 disk /pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@0/scsi@0/disk@0 name aliases List the current boot…
How to list the status of swap in Solaris
List the status of all swap areas. # swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 32,9 16 8425712 8425712 The output has five columns: path The path name for the swap area. dev The major/minor device number in decimal…
How to change the IP address in Solaris 10
Here is a list of files that you need to edit when changing the IP address of an interface in Solaris 10. /etc/hosts /etc/hostname.interface-name /etc/nodename /etc/defaultrouter /etc/resolv.conf /etc/netmasks Add the ip address and server name to the host file. vi…