The following table shows the difference between 146GB RAID 5 IOPS/TB and 300GB RAID 10 IOPS/TB.
Each column represents a different Read percentage (the Write percentage is the inverse).
Negative numbers mean that for this Read percentage and IOPS requirement, RAID 10 gives more IOPS/TB of disk. Positive numbers mean that RAID 5 gives better…

A friend asked me how he could see the network utilization in Solaris. It seems like a fairly simple request but for some reason this is not a simple command line away.
In Linux I would instinctively go straight to iptraf. I don’t know if iptraf is the tool of choice these days but I’m…

Recently, I was asked to give some advice on an integration project involving some Solaris web servers . One of the sides requested to install the top command.Now I know and love top for Linux but using top on Solaris is a waste in my opinion. Solaris comes with the prstat command built in-…