Posts Tagged Solaris

QuickTip: Solved How to reinitialize several disks with an empty SMI partition table

Hi folks!, first I want to thanks Arnaud Delanoue for commenting me about the script that implements the solution for the hardest part: labeling the disk automatically. I have come finally with the procedure to reset any disk from EFI to SMI. It’s commented in course ES-445 (Sun Cluster 3.2 Advanced Administration), so I recommend [...]

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QuickTip: How to reinitialize several disks with an empty SMI partition table

Hi, today i was preparing a couple of arrays of disks that have been previously used in other courses. I’ve got this problem you’ll may be familiar with: several disks with different sizes, geometries, partition tables and labels (EFI, SMI). With more than 30 disks to reset manually, I know it’s gonna take me a [...]

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DTrace for Developers (SI-328-S10)

Este curso se trata de uno de los más interesantes para desarrolladores de aplicaciones. Se muestran conceptos clave para la depuración y diagnóstico de aplicaciones y la determinación de los problemas clave en una aplicación: Course Code: SI-328-S10 Course Title: DTrace for Developers Revision: A Duration: Two (2) Days Course Description he DTrace for Developers [...]

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ZFS file access monitor dtrace script

I have created this small DTrace script to monitor the file access on a ZFS file system (it does not work on other File Systems). It uses one single argument, the file you are going to monitor. It will print the DATE access, the process using the file, the operation over the file (Read/Write/Delete), the [...]

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How to create a daily recursive snapshot of a Zpool

An advantage of copy-on-write is that when ZFS writes new data, the blocks containing the old data can be retained, allowing a snapshot version of the file system to be maintained. ZFS snapshots are created very quickly, since all the data composing the snapshot is already stored; they are also space efficient, since any unchanged [...]

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How to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10 (Part 3 of 3)

On my previous post (Part 2 of 3) we have seen how to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Solaris 10, so now we are going to verify that the installation has been done successfully. How? First, we need to set up the environment for the oracle user by defining the variables ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, [...]

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How to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10 (Part 2 of 3)

After reviewing the requirements for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10, (see the previous post Part 1 of 3), let’s begin the installation. After unzipping the 2 downloaded files, we have a database directory which contains all the needed files for the installation and the OUI (Oracle Universal Installer), the GUI [...]

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How to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10 (Part 1 of 3)

The deal today is to install the last version of Oracle Database, which is the 11g Release 2 (11.2), on Solaris 10. The first part of an instalation process should be to verify the requirements needed by the software we want to install. So the question is : What are the Oracle Database Preinstallation Requirements [...]

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Deploy a small Grid on Sun Fire T1000 with Solaris Containers

This post is the first of three posts in which we will show you how to setup a fresh installed Sun Fire T1000 Server as a Solaris container server and deploy the Sun Grid Engine 6.2u4 software on different, securified, isolated zones. Architecture We are using a T1000 with on 1 Chip MultiThread processor with [...]

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Solaris commands aren’t what they seem

With this new post I am going to show you some curious things that recently happened to me. For testing purposes I needed to remove the execution permission for regular users for the prstat command. So I just did a basic chmod (nothing strange for now…) : root@solarisbox# chmod 550 /usr/bin/prstat root@solarisbox# After that, regulars [...]

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