The Solaris Volume Manager is a replacement for Solstice DiskSuite and provides software RAID functionality of Sun Solaris systems. If the following scary error message crops up, don’t panic, try this fix.

There isn’t a netmask setting available when creating a zone and the /etc/netmasks file isn’t consulted when plumbing up zone interfaces. This recipe describes how to force a netmask when creating a zone.

The new service management facility in Solaris 10 provides a powerful means of administering services. This addition to Solaris means significant changes to operations related to service administration. This recipe describes the command that will enable the NFS server in Solaris 10.

Once you have a non-global zone installed or running on a Solaris 10 installation, it is often useful to connect to the console of the zone. This provides the same control over the zone as connecting to the console of a physical server running Solaris.

Once you have created and installed a zone under Solaris 10, you can fire it up with one simple command.

When you want to remove a non-global zone from your Solaris 10 installation, you’ll need to follow the following steps.

The zoneadm command can be used to list active or running zones.

This will print out a list of patches that omits earlier revs of the same patch. This can be useful to check if a system is at the same level as another (via a diff) system but possibly went through a different patch cycle and ended with different patches at lower revisions.

When UFS logging is enabled, UFS write operations are broken into transactions which are stored to a log before being committed to the filesystem. The use of UFS logging maintains filesystem consistency and prevents the need to run fsck against the filesystem. This can significantly reduce the time required to reboot a system.