This article could be called a continuation of the article I posted yesterday about creating mirrors in SVM, only this time I am talking about replacing failed drives in those mirrors we just created. Take a look and see some options for dealing with failed drives, and how to make Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) happy with it!
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Aug
1
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Replacing failed disks in SVM
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Jul
31
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New article on disk mirrors and SVM
Ok folks, for any of you out there that manage Solaris machines (or want to), I have written up an article detailing one of the fundamental and basic things you do a lot of. Creating disk mirrors with SVM or Solaris Volume Manager. Now, this article does more than just tell you how to create the mirror, although it does do that. In addition, I tried to explain what was going on so that you could get an understanding of what was happening when you were running the commands. In the near future, we’ll have more articles dealing with SVM on such topics as how to replace a failed drive, and even other RAID options. For now though, we dig in to the area of mirrors. Check it out, I hope you find it useful!
Jul
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Solaris 10 Zone Creation Script
One of the best things about Solaris 10, from Sun Microsystems, is Zones or Containers. They allow you to create virtual OS installs on the same box, yet have them quite separate from each other. Processes are segregated, resources can be capped, the options go on and on. Here I have a PERL script (have I mentioned that I love PERL lately?), that makes the creation of zones a snap. The only thing to edit in the script is at the top, where you set your zone base directory, as in the directory that will hold the zones your create. I am a simple man, and usually just stick them all in /data/zones, with /data usually being a separate mount point and thus separate I/O path.
The script has been posted in our forums, head on over and take a look!
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