Data Domain – System Tuning Guide for Solaris 10 / Solaris 11

How to fine tune your Solaris backup servers: Recommended mount option For Solaris 10 #mount -F nfs -o hard,intr,llock,vers=3,proto=tcp,sec=sys, timeo=1200,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576 HOSTNAME:/backup /ddr/backup # mount -F nfs -o hard,intr,llock,vers=3,proto=tcp,sec=sys, timeo=1200,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576 HOSTNAME:/data/col1/<mtree> /ddr/<mountpoint> For Solaris 11 #mount -F nfs -o hard,intr,llock,vers=3,sec=sys,timeo=1200,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576 HOSTNAME:/backup /ddr/backup # mount -F nfs -o hard,intr,llock,vers=3,sec=sys,timeo=1200,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576 HOSTNAME:/data/col1/<mtree> /ddr/<mountpoint> Recommended Network Settings: Data Domain recommends … Read more

Setup and Configure Network Aggregation Under Solaris 10 / Solaris 11

An aggregation is similar to an IPMP link created for failover, but has other advantages: Early versions of Solaris 10 do not have this facility – you would need to download the Sun Trunking software to get it. ### Solaris 10 configuration: To show the available network interfaces: [root @ soltest]~ # dladm show-link LINK … Read more

Few Random Solaris Commands : intrstat, croinfo, dlstat, fmstat, ibv_devinfo & hotplug

Target OS: Solaris 11 and later. Some of these commands may work on earlier versions too. -1- Interrupt Statistics : intrstat utilityintrstat utility can be used to monitor interrupt activity generated by various hardware devices along with the CPU that serviced the interrupt and the CPU time spent in servicing those interrupts on a system. … Read more

Gathering Statistics About Network Traffic on Links in Oracle Solaris 11

The dlstat and flowstat commands are tools for monitoring and obtaining statistics on network traffic on datalinks and flows, respectively. These commands parallel the dladm and flowadm commands. The following table shows the parallelism between the pair of *adm commands and the pair of *stat commands and their respective functions: Command Function dladm command options User interface and tool for configuring and administering datalinks. flowadm command options User interface … Read more

Install NetBackup Client on Solaris / Linux

Download / Untar NetBackup Client binary package and exec installation script: ### FYI, Just NetBackup master server hostname is required during installation. [root @ soltest]/tmp # tar -xf NetBackup_7.6.0.1_CLIENTS1.tar [root @ soltest]/tmp # cd NetBackup_7.6.0.1_CLIENTS1 [root @ soltest]/tmp/NetBackup_7.6.0.1_CLIENTS1 # ./install Symantec Installation Script Copyright 1993 – 2013 Symantec Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Installing NetBackup Client … Read more

Reset HBA port in Oracle Solaris

If the devices not immediately available in fabric zones in a storage area network you can reinitialize the link to the devices by using the luxadm -e forcelip command. The following command can be used to list HBA devices: [root @ unixonline] / # luxadm -e port /devices/pci@1c,600000/QLGC,qlc@1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED /devices/pci@1c,600000/QLGC,qlc@1,1/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED The following command can … Read more

ISCSI in Solaris with iscsitadm Command

Target: Space which is being assigned from storage. Initiator: Client who is connecting to and using Target. Services: Depending on server role these services should be enabled/disabled. Configuring Target (Server) : #Show current settings iscsitadm show admin *  Assuming that a ZFS Volume named “Pool/Vol” is created in this regard. Change base directory : Create … Read more

Finding the amount of used memory by each process in Solaris

What is VSZ memory? VSZ is short for Virtual Memory Size. It’s the total amount of memory a process may hypothetically access. ### fill out required <UserName> in following command to find the amount of used memory by each process. ### Output is in Kilobyte. for i in ps -aef | grep -i <UserName> | … Read more

Configure Static IP Address on Solaris11

//Check current ip configuration status # dladm show-phys # ipadm show-if # ipadm show-addr //Check the interfaces name # dladm show-phys — output Example —LINK MEDIA STATE SPEED DUPLEX DEVICEnet0 Ethernet up 1000 full e1000g0 –> Attentiom to this linenet1 Ethernet unknown 0 unknown pcn0 =============================================================================================== # ipadm create-ip net0 //Check status # ipadm show-if … Read more