This is a wonderful guide on Solaris 10. By any chance, does anyone know how to do this in Solaris 8 ?
Thanks,
Remi
Solaris 10 is the minimum supported OS release for the SunFire X4100
But Solaris 8/9 is supported on some of the older hardware...
Solaris 8 02/02 for Sun LX50 (x86), Solaris 9 12/02 (x86), Sun LX65 Server, Sun LX60 Server, Sun LX50 Server, Sun Fire V65x Server, Sun Fire V60x Server
Is this correct if I have to create 2 partions of 100 Gigs each? (spread accross (6) 36 Gig drives)
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0
1. c0t1d0 <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107>
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Has anybody every used Solstice DiskSuite? I am having trouble setting it up. I installed it without a problem, but do I really have to blow away the drives on the D1000 just to create a metastate database? (8 Replies)
Hi there
I am about to mirror a Solaris 10 x86 box (SunFire X4100) onto a secondary disk using svm (current system is one disk). My question is this, on X86 boxes there is a slice 8 defined as boot partition (and also a slice 9, dunno what its used for tho). Do I need to mirror this boot slice... (0 Replies)
I have a live Sunfire v440 server with 4 drives and I want to mirror drive 0 & 1 to 2 & 3. The on-board raid controller only allows for 1 live mirror. I was thinking of disksuite, but unfortunately the second disk is just one large partition with no free slices.
I was thinking of using... (0 Replies)
I am having an issue with setting up disk mirroring for Solaris 10 on an x86 server. My main problem is that the volumes and slices have already been setup and our proprietary software has already been installed and configured. The entire drive has been allocated in this configuration and the... (2 Replies)
Hello,
We have this system a SunFire 280R running Solaris 8 Generic_117350-46. It has 2 36GB disks in it. They are mirrored with DiskSuite 4.2.1.
When we execute a metastat all the devices report an Okay status, but when we go into metatool everything is in the Critical (maintenance)... (4 Replies)
hi all,
i want to mirror two disks with disksuite under solaris 9 , doses smeone can explain me Briefly the essential steps to do that plz ? (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Do you know where I can download Soltice Disksuite 4.2 for Solaris 2.6 ?
I haven't the CD labeled “Solaris Server Intranet Extensions 1.0” .
Thanks in advance for your precious help.
Bests Regards
Hosni (2 Replies)
I have a SOlaris 10 v240 server. I'm installing disksuite to mirror the root drive D0 to D2. I also have one partition on disk 1 that I want to mirror to D3. I am not using ZFS right now.
Can I add that to my initial mirroring configuration or can I only mirror 1 drive to 1 drive?
Can I... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a Solaris Disksuite question :-
I will be adding 4 new drives to an E250 server and need will be configuring 2 striped volumes each consisting 2 new disks with SVM. In the end i will have 2 volumes each of 72gb. So in effect i will have 1 volume called D7 and another volume... (6 Replies)