Solaris

Solaris originally started with their raidz technology for their zfs file system. Eventually came raidz2. And finally raidz3 with the release of Solaris 11, stripping […]

System administrators often want to monitor network traffic to debug problems. They will often need to trace what packets are coming in and out of […]

The svcadm command can be used to restart many solaris services. Restarting the network after changes is important. Specifying the right service name is important […]

It is often very useful to list services in solaris. Solaris has a command that can be used to list services, it is “svcs”. Below […]

ZFS provides an easy way to view share snapshots. To list ZFS snapshots use the following command: This will list all the snapshots from all […]

Disks often fail in systems and need to be replaced. If you are using solaris and zfs as your file system you will need to […]

ZFS is a fantastic file system which revolutionizes data management. It has awesome features such as snapshots, dedup, the notion of pools and shares, effective […]

One will often want to check the status of a zpool in zfs. A common way to do this is to use This will provide […]

When modifying tcp values it is a good idea to take note of the default values since you may need to change them back. An […]

To change the default gateway in solaris you will need to make a modification to a config file in /etc. The specific file is /etc/defaultrouter. […]