Recently I created my first ZFS clones but quickly realized that there was no simple way to tell the clones from the regular filesystems. My first instinct was to run ‘zfs list -t clone’ similar to ‘zfs list -t snapshot’ but this didn’t work. Maybe it works in newer versions of ZFS.

After some poking…

I am a huge fan of Sun Microsystems.I love Solaris 10.I love ZFS.I love RBAC.I love zones.I really love T2/T2+ processors.I especially love the T5140 and X4450 servers. One thing I cannot figure out though, is why Sun lets obviously delirious cocaine addicts package their software. Maybe I’m exaggerating but I think that many…

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…

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-…

Static routes are a very common necessity once your networks become even a little complex. Whether you need to route specific traffic over a VPN or setup specific test addresses for IPMP failover, static routes are indispensable. For many years the “correct” way of configuring static routes in Solaris has been to create an…