Solaris Error Messages T-Z

Solaris / Unix error messages are very short and often we need some more information about the origin of an error and a possible steps to fix the issues.
Here is a list of Solaris / Unix error messages for your reference, most of the error messages are generic Unix error messages but many are specific Solaris Error Messages. Please comment if you can provide some more details about these errors. Continue reading “Solaris Error Messages T-Z” →

Managing Sun OpenBoot Parameters and commands

Learn to access, display and set sun openboot parameters on a Sun servers and workstation for input output port , boot , security , diagnostics & more. Continue reading “Managing Sun OpenBoot Parameters and commands” →

Veritas Volume Manager – vxdiskadm

Veritas Volume Manager is used to manage disk storage spread over an array of disks.

The main features of volume manager are following
1. Allows creation of logical volumes spanning over multiple disks. This overcomes the physical limit of the disk .
2. Provides high availability storage solutions through RAID ,Mirroring of disks .
3. Provides fail over features by providing transferable disk group ownership between systems.
4. Dynamic reconfiguration of disk storage in an online system state. what is veritas volume manager .

The following article describes the volume manager objects and configuration of these objects using a text menu based utility called vxdiskadm . Continue reading “Veritas Volume Manager – vxdiskadm” →