OpenSolaris ( /ˈoʊpən sɵˈlɑrɨs/) was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle decided to ...
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Install p5i package on opensolaris 5.11 snv_110
I inherited an opensolaris server and we need to install a nice new network card (pci id 8086,10fb). The ixgbe package recently added support for this card; so I wanted to upgrade to the following.
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Where is the central ZFS website now?
Oracle dumped OpenSolaris in Fall 2010, and it is unclear if Oracle will continue to publicly release updates to ZFS, except maybe after they release their next major version of Solaris.
FreeBSD now ...
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OpenSolaris 10: Unable to open /usr/local/etc/sudoers: Permission Denied as root
Had to install sudo for an opensolaris box today and everything installed without issue. Unfortunately, even as root, when running sudo I get:
sudo: unable to open /usr/local/etc/sudoers: Permission ...
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How to remove the OpenSolaris ZFS dump device
The ZFS dump device is used only for debugging problems. In this case, I have decided the risk vs reward is such that I should delete the dump device to make room for other storage.
I am able to ...
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ZFS rpool full, cant do anything
I have a huge problem, my rpool is full, so when i boot, i have tons of "no space on device" in my shell. No way to log, ssh server is down.
So i decided to boot with opensolaris Live cd and mount ...
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OpenIndiana Static IP
I've installed OpenIndiana 151a7 twice now. Configured a static ip using the following instructions:
svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam
svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default
cp ...
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Why is MySQL unable to open hosts.allow/hosts.deny?
I have a storage server running Nexenta (OpenSolaris kernel, Ubuntu userspace) with MySQL on top of a ZFS storage array, using innodb_file_per_table and ulimit -n set to 8K. mysqltuner.pl confirms ...
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OpenSolaris: What is the Dump device for?
What is the purpose of rpool/dump? Is is useful or necessary? When is it a good idea to re-size it? When is it a good idea to disable and remove it?
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Disable the console beep/bell under Illumos / Solaris?
When I login to the console of my Solaris box any command that would normally generate a bell (tab completion with more than one result, pressing an arrow key one too many times, etc) causes the ...
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How to change controller numbering/enumeration in Solaris 10?
After moving a Solaris 10 server to a new machine, the rpool disk is now c1t0d0. We have some third party applications hard coded for c0t0d0. How can I change the controller enumeration on this ...
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growing a raid z(1/2)
I'm planning on building a fileserver on top of opensolaris, using either a raid z1 or z2. Is it possible to later upgrade a disk at a time and immediately have access to the increased storage? Or ...
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OpenIndiana (illumos): vmxnet3 interface lost on reboot
I want my VMware vmxnet3 interface to be brought up with DHCP on boot. I can manually configure the NIC with:
# ifconfig vmxnet3s0 plumb
# ipadm create-addr -T dhcp vmxnet3s0/v4dhcp
But after ...
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How do I fix Open Solaris's terminal
OK so I fully admit that I am new to administrating Open Solaris but I had been a user of it back in Solaris 8 days. Since I wanted to build a ZFS NAS server I figured that Open Solaris would be be a ...
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Zpool disk failure - Where am I at?
After checking the status of one of my zpools today, I was faced with the following:
root@server: zpool status -v myPool
pool: myPool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an ...
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ZFS - destroying deduplicated zvol or data set stalls the server. How to recover?
I'm using Nexentastor on a secondary storage server running on an HP ProLiant DL180 G6 with 12 Midline (7200 RPM) SAS drives. The system has an E5620 CPU and 8GB RAM. There is no ZIL or L2ARC device.
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Live migration with xVM without SAN
I have two physical servers that I'd like to setup for virtualization. I'd like to set them up in such a way so that the following goals are met:
Allows live migration of guest OSes from one server ...
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Why is SMF manifest losing configuration data when exported on SmartOS?
I'm running a server process under SMF (Server Management Facility) on Joyent's Base64 1.8.1 SmartOS image.
For those not aqauinted with SmartOS, it is a cloud-based distribution of IllumOS with KVM. ...
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OpenSolaris changing primary user group
How to change primary user group of a user? Preferably without losing the current primary group altogether as the user is part of 'staff' ie. admin. I suppose I could create another admin user and ...
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Potential problems running MongoDB on OpenSolaris & ZFS?
I've been using MongoDB on CentOS with ext4 for a few months now with no problems. I'm potentially going to be moving to Joyentcloud, and their SmartOS is based off of OpenSolaris and uses ZFS. I'm ...
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Solaris/OpenSolaris resources
What are some good Solaris/OpenSolaris resources?
Please list them whether they are online/offline or free/for payment.
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Does (when?) OpenSolaris support ZFS deduplication and l2arc
Deduplication and L2ARC in ZFS would be nice to have. Does OpenSolaris support them? I can't quite figure out which version of Solaris they are in, and how that maps to OpenSolaris. Are they there? ...
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ZFS with L2ARC (SSD) slower for random seeks than without L2ARC
I am currently testing ZFS (Opensolaris 2009.06) in an older fileserver to evaluate its use for our needs. Our current setup is as follows:
Dual core (2,4 GHz) with 4 GB RAM
3x SATA controller with ...
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Trigger ZFS dedup one-off scan/rededup
I have a ZFS filesystems which has been running for some time and I recently had the opportunity to upgrade it (finally!) to the latest ZFS version. Our data doesn't scream dedup but I firmly believe ...
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Webadmin or GUI for ZFS in OpenSolaris
How do you enable the ZFS Webadmin or GUI in OpenSolaris? It seems possible, but not as a directly available package. Has anyone got it working with just OpenSolaris packages, or do I have to take ...
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ZFS: Mirror vs. RAID-Z
I'm planning on building a file server using OpenSolaris and ZFS that will provide two primary services - be an iSCSI target for XenServer virtual machines & be a general home file server. The ...
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How can I rate limit/packet shape/traffic shape on Solaris
I have an TCP server application running on a Nexenta NCP 3 box. I would like to limit how much outgoing bandwidth it can use. Is it possible in Solaris to rate limit an application like I can in ...
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OpenSolaris won't authenticate to OpenLDAP users with md5 passwords
I have an OpenSolaris machine here; I'm using it for the first time because I want to try out ZFS. ZFS itself is working great, but I cannot get opensolaris to authenticate against our openldap ...
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SMF restarting service whenever there's output?
I'm trying to add a custom service to SMF's configuration, which seems successful in that the service starts and there is a log file, but therein lies the problem; the service, on start-up, prints ...
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How to upgrade a ZFS RAID-Z array to larger disks on OpenSolaris?
I'm planning on installing OpenSolaris on my home server (right now it has Linux) and I would like to know how to prepare for upgrading the server to have larger hard drives in the future. Now the ...
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Reset ACLs in NFS4/ZFS network share
How can I reset the ACLs on a ZFS file system on OpenIndiana that is exported via NFS4 and replace it with inherited permissions? Basically, I want to do the equivalent of icacls "C:\path\to\folder" ...
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Mounting a CIFS share through vfstab in OpenSolaris
I'm trying to set up a CIFS share that will mount automatically on my OpenSolaris server. It seems like it would be simple enough, but there's something wrong in my syntax that's preventing it from ...
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Renaming files by date solaris
I’m trying to run the following command
rsync -avz /mnt/backups/`date \
--date=yesterday +\%Y-\%m-\%d`-`date \
--date=yesterday +\%A`/server1/ /mnt/backups/`date \
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Website where one could find list of certified notebooks for OpenSolaris?
Is there website where one could find list of certified notebooks for OpenSolaris 2009.06?
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Unable to contact valid Reprository Publisher on Solaris11
on my just install Solaris11 on Oracle VM, I got this at startup: Unable to contact valid reprository publisher. application/pkg/server:default failed AUTO-RESPONSE: The service has been placed into ...
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OpenSolaris.. Um, is it becoming unmaintained?
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/downloads
I see a download for 2009.06 and a dev download for 2010.03. (current month is 2010-12)
Could this mean that since the Oracle acquisition of Sun.. ...
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How to design high performance CIFS/SMB
Would it make sense to virtualize windows using Xen or VMware ESX and expose storage on a JBOD as NFS, instead of exposing storage as CIFS/SMB for better I/O throughput?
Is it true that the below can ...
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Disk throughput dramatically reduced when using ZFS on OpenSolaris?
I'm building a simple ZFS file server for the small business I work for. The server is a Dell Poweredge 840, with 1GB RAM. The OS (OpenSolaris 2009.06) is installed on one SATA drive, and there are ...
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Why is Nexentastor so slow - especially to delete files
I am running a Nexentastor server with the follow specs:
dual core (core2duo) cpu
4GB of ram
1x 160GB SATA2 drive for the OS
6x 1.5TB Drives Sata2 drives in a RaidZ1
copying files is fine, fairly ...
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Is there any fork of OpenSolaris?
— I have a plan to use OpenSolaris in this year, but now, the development has been discontinued.
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How to refresh open source software pkg manager on oldish OpenSolaris?
I'm being presented with an OpenSolaris vps, actually a Solaris Container, which is based on SXCE snv_121 and is active since mid 2007: the good old Sun days, IIRC even before the Indiana stuff!
For ...
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solaris 10 + Can't open boot archive from OK prompt
I installed Solaris 10 on my netra machine - T5220
from the OK prompt I type boot ( in order to boot from disk )
{0} boot
and I get the following error
Can't open boot_archive
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solaris 10 + install solaris from cdrom + read disk error
I want to install solaris 10 on my netra machine - T5220
{0} OK boot cdrom - install
but I get the errors below - please advice what could be the problem ?
can't read disk label
can't open disk ...
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Mounting Windows HDD from an OpenSolaris LiveCD
Hey,
I´m running openSolaris LiveCD on a computer that runs Windows XP.
How can I mount the 2 partitions I have in Windows, and be able to access them from the Solaris?
Thanks
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Where can I find introductory documentation for ZFS?
I recently installed OpenIndiana because of an interest in ZFS. I like the feature-list of ZFS, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how to configure it. All of the documentation I ...
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Solaris Express 11 + IPQoS - how to set up?
What I want to accomplish
I want to limit the available bandwidth to specific background file replication services to a few (< 100) kBytes/s (preferably assymetric).
I first tried to accomplish ...
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alternative for setsc comand
I have solaris machine ( from uname -a 5.10 Generic_142900-15 sun4v sparc SUNW,Netra-T2000 )
the command (setsc sc_powerondelay true) should be performed only from sc prompt
my question what is the ...
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scalable storage solution using ZFS: OSOL / Nexenta?
some one commented that ZFS is not a distibuted file system and thus more suitable for storage from a box than a cluster.
is it possible to start small as NAS with Nexenta / opensolaris and scale up ...
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Are there any PCIe SSD cards compatable with OpenIndianna (OpenSolaris) and/or FreeNAS (freebsd) 8+?
Has anyone had any success at all with any PCIx SSD cards around the 200GB+ mark under FreeNAS 8 or OpenIndiana? Specifically either of these platforms because of ZFS support for which we'd be using ...
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Nexenta After the Death of OpenSolaris
We are thinking of evaluating Nexenta for a Tier 2 storage solution. It looks great, but I have doubts over its future after the demise of OpenSolaris.
I know that Nexenta uses an OpenSolaris kernel ...
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In solaris, how monitor & auto-respond to critical events
I have a website that randomly fail. Is running in open solaris on joyent.
I have a monitoring service that alert me when the site is down, but, I want a way to put a "insider" tool that tell me why ...
