The following is my procedure to patch a Sun x4540 booted on a ZFS filesystem with the 10_x86_Recommended_CPU_2012-01 patches from Oracle. # uname -a SunOS jumpstart 5.10 Generic_144489-17 i86pc i386 i86pcls # lustatus Boot Environment Name Is Complete Active Now Active On Reboot Can Delete Copy Status ————————– ——– —— ——— —— ———- s10x_u9wos_14a yes no no [...]
By default the e1000g network interface is set to auto-negotiation enabled, 1Gbps full-duplex. # ndd -set /dev/e1000g<instance> adv_autoneg_cap 0 # ndd -set /dev/e1000g<instance> force_speed_duplex <value> Value Setting Result 1 10Mb/s, half-duplex 2 10Mb/s, full-duplex 3 100Mb/s, half-duplex 4 100Mb/s, full-duplex I found this while reading the hardware platform guide for T5120. “force_speed_duplex” is not available [...]
A Gigabit capable port on some Solaris 10 systems made by Broadcom has difficulty negotiating speed and duplex settings with Cisco network switches. To resolve the situation, the bge interface in question was manually set to 100BaseT Full Duplex as follows. Modified /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf by adding the lines: adv_autoneg_cap = 0; adv_1000fdx_cap = 0; adv_1000hdx_cap = 0; [...]
I’ve seen Solstice Disk Suite mirroring of the system disk that works but is ugly. So I decided to create what I thought was a best practice and try to minimize configuration mistakes. Mirroring the system disk with disk suite with c0t0d0 as the source and c0t1d0 as the destination. Ideally you would have identical [...]
The following are instructions pieced together from Oracle Patch: 10263984: Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.6 Steps to Follow ALOM faq for sun equip Q. What versions of Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM) are available? A. Presently, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5.x and 1.6 of ALOM are in use but only version 1.6 is [...]
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