svcbundle extended
svcbundle is an really useful tool to create SMF manifestes without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don’t have to work with XML at all , b...
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Tales from the bike saddle - Step by step
When i worked at Canbox many, many moons ago, the CEO send a number of people to a training called “Leading without hierachical power” or as i called it “sho...
Which SRU to get those new features?
Short anwser: The newest one you can get on the day you are reading this. The long answer: All the features i’m writing about in the last few days didn’t ap...
New -s option for zpool status
With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This b...
ZFS allocation units
This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It’s nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right th...
You have been warned: Upgrading rpool
In the past customers painted themself into a corner, when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpoo...
Solaris scales
This is a nifty small feature . Tools like ps,df,du, ls,ps,size,prstat and swap have now the option --scale. This makes the output of those tools much more ...