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Identifying a broken disk in HP DL360

Since I don’t have great level of experience with HP DL series I was puzzled for a bit when I found out that one of the disk was broken. How I did that? Easy, by gazing at the “Faulty Led” that went steadily on. Not bad but I wanted to be able to grab more […]

Posted on June 10, 2009 at 1:06 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Linux

Missing voolboot file

If executing ” vxdctl enable” you receive the following error: VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded then this sequence could help you to resolve the problem: vxio set 10 vxconfigd -d vxdctl init vxdctl enable Good luck.

Posted on June 8, 2009 at 5:43 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Veritas · Tagged with: 

Steadfast tin soldier

Lat weekend was very saturated with events of every sort and kind. First of all, since we’ve finally entered into summer time, I moved away from stuffy and noisy Moscow, into country side but the drawback was quite noticeable – from now on, since I will be bouncing between Moscow and my new place daily […]

Posted on June 5, 2009 at 11:18 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · One Comment
In: Life

Unified Storage Simulator

Recently I had a chance to fiddle with Sun Storage 7000 Simulator and was totally amazed about this product. It’s absolutely fantastic and awesome because it gives everyone an opportunity to study and familiarize with Sun 7xxx storage appliance just by the means of VirtualBox (or VMWare). Once you boot and go through the initial […]

Posted on June 5, 2009 at 4:29 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

OpenSolaris 2009.06 is here

Today, during ongoing CommunityOne confrerence, the new OpenSolaris release was announced with bunch of compelling new features i.e. Crossbow, ClearView, COMSTAR, SPARC support and a lot of more. Release details could be retrieved from OpenSolaris web site.

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 6:45 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Utterly depressed

Online petition – Let Alexandra Come Back to Portugal

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 5:36 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Spontaneous domain reboot on SunFire 6800

Because the respective case at Sun was closed, I want to add this note for the future reference, just in case. So… One day I came to my desk and found that one the domains on SF6800 had been reboot for no reason, at least the very first impression was exactly like that. Superficially and […]

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Maximum number of processes

If you’re with some Linux background under you belt then probably the first command you would think about is ulimit -a. The same command exists under Solaris root@root # ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited open files (-n) 32768 pipe size (512 […]

Posted on May 28, 2009 at 11:09 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

What’s new in OpenSolaris 2009.06

If you’re curious about new feature and technologies that are going to be introduced in the new upcoming OpenSolaris release then this presentation prepared by Peter Dennis is a must read.

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 10:53 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

No way I want to make the same mistakes again

To avoid stepping on the same rake again and to fix the issue described in this post, I came out with a simple expect script to save current configuration of Qlogic Sanbox switches. #!/usr/local/bin/expect -f set switches “switch1 switch2” set user {user} set pass {pass} set ftp_user {ftp_user} set ftp_pass {ftp_pass} set timeout 10 log_user […]

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 6:44 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · One Comment
In: Scripting