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Adding a new LUN on Solaris 9 with VXFS and PowerPath 

There’s not a lot of documentation out there on working with LUNs on servers that use both Veritas Storage Foundation and EMC PowerPath. I have spent the last few weeks perfecting the process of Dynamic LUN Expansion and will be adding more posts about that process in the near future. Most recently I [...]

Random Perl Snippet 

Something that I get to do occasionally at work is review old code to fix some random bug. I actually enjoy doing this because I rarely get to program anymore (since I have never been a developer) and it’s nice to brush up on it again. The other day, I ran into some [...]

Find open ports in Solaris 9 

In many operating systems, you can find the connection between a specific process and an open port using lsof as I mentioned here. What if you don’t have lsof, like in Solaris 9? Well, if you have pfiles, you can do the same thing by looping through the current processes and checking what [...]

Updated design 

I got tired of the small width columns of the original template that I used to build this blog, so I finally went in and modified the CSS to make the columns bigger. This should make it so that the code is easier to read and copy. According to Google Analytics, 99.7% of [...]

Solaris 8: Bad Superblock at block 16 

This weekend I got the joy of rebuilding a Solaris 8 server from scratch with backups. I had another server of the same hardware available to use for the restore, except it had Solaris 9 mirrored across 2 hard drives. Someday, I’ll go through and document the whole process, but basically I broke [...]