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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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 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…