Less known Solaris features: IP Multipathing
It isn’t really a less known feature for many experienced Solaris admins. On production system they already use IPMP. But many people new to Solaris aren’t aware of the existence of an IP multipathing framework in Solaris and Opensolaris. This tutorial consisting out of eleven parts wants to give an brief introduction to this topic. Additionally it covers the new IPMP implementation, that found it’s way into the code at build 107. Thus it’s interesting for long-time admins as well.
- Part 1:Introduction
- Part 2:Foundations 1
- Part 3:Fountations 2
- Part 4:Foundations 3
- Part 5:Prerequisites
- Part 6:New IPMP
- Part 7:New IPMP and link aggregation
- Part 8: Classic IPMP
- Part 9: Classic and new IPMP compared
- Part 10:Tips, tricks and other comments
- Part 11:Conclusion
I hope, this tutorial gives you a good insight into this interesting topic.