Posts Tagged ‘ SUN ’

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 and dig I verified that the DNS servers were resolving the hostname to IP...
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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 Switch to the server console. XSCF> console -d 0 Connect to DomainID 0? :y Devalias will list all devices which can be booted. {0} ok devalias...
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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 AIX was not pleasing. It required constant maintenance and troubleshooting. The best is hardware...
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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 flash archive which can also be used to rebuild a server. If the flash...
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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 device. ok printenv boot-device boot-device = disk Change the boot device from disk to...
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