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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 […]
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.
In: Veritas · Tagged with: VxVM
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Utterly depressed
Online petition – Let Alexandra Come Back to Portugal
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]