Solaris 10 supports UFS filesystems up to 16TB (with files up to 1TB in case you get carried away writing the great American novel). To do this, the newfs command needs to be modified when creating the filesystem.

A simple command will provide detailed information about the specific memory configuration of a Sun server, information such as the sizes and locations of memory banks. This can prevent cracking open the case and the associated downtime.

The prtconf command is a valuable tool for determining the devices attached to a Solaris system. The total system memory is prominently displayed and the devices and peripherals attached to the system are displayed in a tree format.

Solaris 9 requires some tinkering to play with SANs. This recipe describes the procedure.

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.

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.