Q: Our company is going to have to power down all the servers in our data center / computer room because of required electrical maintenance. What steps should I take ahead of time to prepare for this? A: There are 3 main items that need...
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Using Live Upgrade To Apply Patches To Running Solaris 10 x86
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The following is my procedure to patch a Sun x4540 booted on a ZFS filesystem with the 10_x86_Recommended_CPU_2012-01 patches from Oracle. # uname -a SunOS jumpstart 5.10 Generic_144489-17 i86pc i386 i86pcls # lustatus Boot Environment Name Is Complete Active Now Active On Reboot Can Delete Copy Status...
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Auto Negotiation of Speed and Duplex Failing on Solaris 10 bge interface
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A Gigabit capable port on some Solaris 10 systems made by Broadcom has difficulty negotiating speed and duplex settings with Cisco network switches. To resolve the situation, the bge interface in question was manually set to 100BaseT Full Duplex as follows. Modified /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf by adding the...
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How to Mirror the System Disk in Solaris
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I've seen Solstice Disk Suite mirroring of the system disk that works but is ugly. So I decided to create what I thought was a best practice and try to minimize configuration mistakes. Mirroring the system disk with disk suite with c0t0d0 as the source...
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Upgrading ALOM on SunFire V215 to v. 1.6.10
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The following are instructions pieced together from Oracle Patch: 10263984: Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.6 Steps to Follow ALOM faq for sun equip Q. What versions of Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM) are available? A. Presently, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.x and 1.6...
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