'hardware' Category

• Recent home project: ZFS NAS server

  July 2, 2007

  I apologize for not posting for the last week, it was a very hectic week for myself because of a certain request for a Solaris 9 machine with tape that took the greater part of a week to get working properly. All I have to say about that is that I much prefer Solaris 10 […]

  posted in hardware, solaris, zfs by Lee

• Use SVM to make RAID0 and RAID1 meta-partitions

  May 17, 2007

  Firstly, the easy one: RAID0: Given 4 slices, each ~5g: First, need a metadb, I created a 100MB slice on c1t1d0s0 (which I am NOT using for the RAID, entirely separate drive) and ran this command to initiate the database. It is a good idea to mirror the database in a minimum of 3 positions, […]

  posted in geekery, hardware, raid, software, solaris, sun, svm, tutorials, work by Lee

• Getting EMC Celerras to work for iscsi on Solaris 10

  May 17, 2007

  For fun and profit! Basically, for my own categorization: 1. Celerra-side: Create filesystems (I am using 4 because I want to stripe across all 4: nas_fs -n iscsiRAID1_5g -c size=5G pool=clar_r5_performance nas_fs -n iscsiRAID2_5g -c size=5G pool=clar_r5_performance nas_fs -n iscsiRAID3_5g -c size=5G pool=clar_r5_performance nas_fs -n iscsiRAID4_5g -c size=5G pool=clar_r5_performance Mount filesystems: server_mount server_2 iscsiRAID1_5g /iscsiRAID1_5g […]

  posted in geekery, hardware, iscsi, software, solaris, sun, tutorials, work by Lee