After finally having to tackle Solaris after so many years with i386 boxes, I was truly disappointed to find out that I was going to have build and repair software raids on all of the servers that I inherited. Enter the T2000: With these new T2000 servers, we can build a hardware raid and swap [...]
Our remote data center has forced me to figure out remote installations for Solaris, and although I was originally dreading it … it wasn’t half bad. The Sun documentation was a little painful, but I can understand that with so many ways of doing the network install, you have to offer a lot of different [...]
So today’s problem had us trying to snapmirror a sizable amount of data (200 GB) over a bonded-T1 network link. With that kind of throughput, completing the snapmirror would take somewhere in the range of 2 weeks. Unfortunately, we 1) need to share that bandwidth with other applications and 2) don’t have that kind of time. [...]