Sun E25k - Hot swapping system boards - part II
After a domain crash on the E25k, normally the domain will restart. Such as the case earlier this week with the oradev1 domain on the DC1 E25k. Problem determination uncovered one CPU experienced a...
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One issue with sharing NICs when more than one VLAN is defined on a Solaris host with non-global zones is routing between non-global zones for the same physical host. By default routing is direct, not...
View ArticleMigrating non-Global Solaris Zones
If using server virtualization such as in this case of Solaris containers and zones, we find advantages provided in the tooling for migrating virtualized servers from one host to another....
View ArticleMemory shortages - or is it?
Occasionally we receive a report of a Solaris server with a swap space shortage. Much of the time there is no problem. We get enough of these reports that I've set up a technical doc Solaris Memory...
View ArticleSunOracle ILOM to ALOM
Current T3 systems use ILOM 3.0 or higher. Which no longer supports the legacy ALOM commands. That's a change some of us will have to get use to as the command syntax is very different. I found a...
View ArticleLDAP client issue on Solaris
Started a workaround section today on the xteams website. First workaround added for LDAP client issues on Unix. This might help anyone after hours and oncall for Unix servers experiencing an LDAP...
View ArticleSun E25k - Hot swapping system boards - part II
After a domain crash on the E25k, normally the domain will restart. Such as the case earlier this week with the oradev1 domain on the DC1 E25k. Problem determination uncovered one CPU experienced a...
View ArticleSolaris Zones - Solving shared network issue
One issue with sharing NICs when more than one VLAN is defined on a Solaris host with non-global zones is routing between non-global zones for the same physical host. By default routing is direct, not...
View ArticleMigrating non-Global Solaris Zones
If using server virtualization such as in this case of Solaris containers and zones, we find advantages provided in the tooling for migrating virtualized servers from one host to another....
View ArticleMemory shortages - or is it?
Occasionally we receive a report of a Solaris server with a swap space shortage. Much of the time there is no problem. We get enough of these reports that I've set up a technical doc Solaris Memory...
View ArticleSunOracle ILOM to ALOM
Current T3 systems use ILOM 3.0 or higher. Which no longer supports the legacy ALOM commands. That's a change some of us will have to get use to as the command syntax is very different. I found a...
View ArticleLDAP client issue on Solaris
Started a workaround section today on the xteams website. First workaround added for LDAP client issues on Unix. This might help anyone after hours and oncall for Unix servers experiencing an LDAP...
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