The Geek Diary

[...] how to setup the NTP (network time protocol) client on Solaris 8,9 and 10 as well as non-global zones. The configuration in the global zone and a non-global zone is exactly same, except for the [...]

[...] Link aggregation is logical grouping of multiple physical interfaces to get : 1. Increased Bandwidth 2. [...]

[...] Why Soft Partitions ? An obvious question in everybody’s mind – why the hell do we need the soft [...]

[...] Why aggregate network interfaces (interface bonding)? The two important reasons to create an interface bonding are : 1. To provide increased [...]

[...] RedHat / CentOS : How to create interface bonding Interface Bonding as we all know is very useful in providing the fault tolerance and increased bandwidth. We [...]

[...] Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) : Growing mirrored metadevices online Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) : Growing concat metadevice In the example below, we have a 3 [...]

[...] Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) : Growing mirrored metadevices online Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) : Growing RAID 5 metadevices online In the example shown below, [...]

[...] Manager (SVM) : Growing mirrored metadevices online Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) : Growing concat metadevice In the example below, we have a 3 column RAID5 metadevice d10 [ size - 1GB ] with 3 disks & [...]

[...] Volume Manager (SVM) : Growing RAID 5 metadevices online In the example shown below, the concat metadevice d80 is configured using the slice c1t3d0s0 of size 1 GB. The high level steps to grow this [...]

[...] metadevice d10 [ size - 1GB ] with 3 disks – c5t23d0s1, c5t24d0s1, c5t25d0s1. The high level steps to grow the RAID 5 […] [...]

[...] below, the concat metadevice d80 is configured using the slice c1t3d0s0 of size 1 GB. The high level steps to grow this metadevice are : 1. Umount […] [...]

[...] a general production environment you’ll find the OS root disk is mirrored to avoid any single point of failures. Its is important to know how to find the primary and alternate boot device. You [...]

[...] path can be severed due to many reasons like faulty HBA, faulty cable etc. To avoid such single point of failures, multipathing exists. Multipathing ensures that the system uses multiple [...]

[...] The system log daemon is responsible for logging the system messages generated by applications or kernel. The [...]

[...] very useful in providing the fault tolerance and increased bandwidth. We can change the active slave interface of bonding without interrupting the production work. In the example below we have the [...]