Category Archives: Solaris

I’ve recently had to apply the 126106-40 core patch for SUN Cluster and had some issues with it.. Seeing on the Internet, some issues with this patchs are documented by Juergen Scheich’s blog and describing a howto fix some of … Continue reading →

After the reboot of a sun server, I found a diskgroup being unusable because of a wrong disk private region that was not consistent with the information stored in Veritas.. After having tried the classics vxconfigd -k -x cleattempdir, I … Continue reading →

This week I’ve had a problem with CLARiiON SAN Storage that needed to be investigated.

Here is my findings:

Problem: When provisionning a Host LUN0 CLARiiON disk on a server, sometimes it is not taken into account by MPxIO. Resulting in no multipathing available. (Although, single devices are available & working…)

Reason: Once MPxIO has seen some LUNZ (Gatekeeper) devices on a server, it consider every LUN0 devices as such, and don’t take them. As LUNZ are provisionned with Host Lun 0, when a real LUN0 disk is provisionned, problems comes.

Read the article to see the solution 🙂

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Every sysadmin that has upgraded or patched a system running multiples zones will tell it, the upgrade was an undefinably long process. When you consider that some SPARC machines are running now with 256 threads, it’s a shame that such … Continue reading →

Today, SUN has released a new version of its famous operating system: Solaris 10 update 7, also called 05/09. It seems that there is no “What’s new” paper yet nor anything advertising it, but the media are already available for … Continue reading →

As I have done in the past with UFS, and as already explained here in the “Migrate partition with minimal downtime…” article, I’ll explain how to migrate a ZFS volume with minimum downtime. What could be done during working hours … Continue reading →

While I wanted to compile php5 under Solaris 10, I scratched my head upon this compilation error: /usr/include/sys/siginfo.h:259: error: parse error before “ctid_t” The solution was simple, but as I loose some time to find it, I’m sharing it here: … Continue reading →

Here is a quick solution to migrate a filesystem from one disk to another with only little downtime (= time when the data are unavailable). It is using the incremental function of ufsdump commands. What could be done during working … Continue reading →

For being sometimes called at night for work, I know this could be of two case: A little problem that could be solved on the phone, or a big mess that needs to be cleaned all the night long.

This one was a big mess.

A big solaris machine who was hosting a buch of zones had lost the disk of one of them.. causing the zone to be down. Veritas showed the disk properly online with two enabled configuration zones

On that disk. Until this, everything fine.

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ERROR: The following required file systems are not mounted by the currently running OS </toto> ERROR: All required PBE file systems are not mounted. This is the message I stumbled upon today while trying to create a Live Upgrade environment … Continue reading →