Archive for December, 2007

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

How to clear the failing flag when a vxdisk list status shows "online failing"

The original can be found here.
Exact Error MessageDEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUSc0t1d0s2 sliced [...]

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Adding interfaces to a running Solaris 10 Zone

This bit was pulled from the bigadmin document Spotlight on Solaris Zones Feature by Amy Rich.
The ifconfig utility has been modified in order to configure and view interfaces based on zone granularity as well, but interfaces can only be plumbed or unplumbed from the global zone. To place an IP interface inside a zone from [...]

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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Sun Fire 6[89]00 physical device mapping

- Start by breaking the hardware address down into parts

/ssm@0,0/pci@19,700000/pci@3/SUNW,isptwo@4/sd (block)
^ ^^ ^ [...]

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Replacing ODS root mirror disks

I’m tend to lean towards using VxVM and away from Sun’s ODS. Why? Because it’s a piece of crap. Alas, you gotta do what you gotta do. I have a box reporting some sub mirrors needing maintenance and I know one of the root disks are going bad. Doing some [...]

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