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Toilet Fun

October 24, 2014 – 1:49 pm
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It’s been a slow Friday afternoon at the office, so I decided to pimp my VM. The tool of choice is “toilet“. Depending on your flavor, this may or may not be easy to install. …

Resizing Hitachi VSP LDEVs (LUNs)

October 23, 2014 – 2:06 pm
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Resizing Hitachi VSP LUNs (aka LDEVs) is a quick and simple task. Unfortunately, due to Hitachi Storage Navigator’s archaic design, the LDEV resize function, while easy to use, is not easy to find. So, here’s …

Adding Swap with Solaris 11 ZFS

October 22, 2014 – 4:24 pm
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With the swap partition residing on a ZFS filesystem, you have an easy way of adding swap on the fly. Reducing swap is not quite so simple, but we’l talk about that later. To check …

Rescanning New LUNs on VNX

October 16, 2014 – 10:49 am
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Just a quick background of the little problem I ran into with our VNX: after creating a couple of LUNs for the mapped file pool using Unisphere, I clicked “Rescan Storage Systems” and got “This …

Enable NTP Client on Solaris 11

October 7, 2014 – 8:27 pm
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Just some quick instructions for configuring and enabling NTP client on Solaris 11.