Tech-Recipes - Windows

This is a quick script to configure mirroring of two drives in a Netra T2000 under Solaris. You may need to alter the device settings for your system, but once you have a script like this that work...

You know ZFS, it is really cool, you can have tons of filesystems in a zpool, you can create raidz/mirror/stripes with just one command, it has compression, quotas and every other cool feature that...

To make access to both servers easier, I created keys for ssh, so I can shell server to server with no password. Following the steps in this Tech-Recipe will make it possible to login to one system...

This Tech-Recipe provides a simple way to replicate LDAP servers. Do your homework to ensure that this is going to give you all that you need to protect your LDAP world. I just wanted to get folks ...

This Tech-Recipe details an installation of Directory Server 5.2 p4 from Sun Microsystems into a Solaris 10 whole-root zone. Good DS installation instructions are VERY difficult to find. Also cover...

The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems. Breaking free of the tr...

A ZFS clone is a writable copy of a snapshot of a filesystem. Phew. It’s much simpler than that sounded. While a filesystem snapshot is read-only, a writable version can be created through cloning....

ZFS snapshots provide point-in-time backups of filesystems which utilize minimal disk space and CPU load. This, combined with the fact that you can make billions of billions of snapshots, makes tak...

Of the many cool features of the new ZFS filesystems, one of the coolest is taking snapshots of a live filesystem. This provides a read-only point-in-time copy of the whole filesystem. While this s...

ZFS supports a type of RAID-5 redundancy called raidz. This redundancy works at the ZFS pool level and affects all created filesystems in that pool. According to the Sun docs, raidz offers ‘better ...