How to use NFS client on Windows 7

10 Sep 2011 So mostly, if you haven't figure that out from reading some of my other stuff, this is a UNIX household Mac OSX , Solaris and some Linux. I stopped using CIFS at home sometime ago it was often painful and had some odd side effects with ACLs on my ZFS file server that I honestly just ca... Read more...

How to Shrink zfs root pool.

30 Jul 2011 This exercise for me is to replace my current single disk rpool, the second disk was removed for another project, on to two slightly smaller disks. Doing so restores my root mirror but as the disks are slightly smaller some work is required.For reference my current root pool name is rpool, the c... Read more...

We need a revolution?

10 Jul 2011 Just a short time back I had what amounts to a mini revilation or small epiphany, take your pick. Actually it was a realization what I had known for some time just never admitted to myself. Since when did we need so many non IT people running the IT infrastructure.Two things happened. I spent a ... Read more...

Solaris 11 Zones

19 Apr 2011 First Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 11 zone dougp59 2011-09-22T20:59:49.382Z Nice video. I have just installed a Solaris 11 sandbox. I have a Solaris 11 container, which was easy, but getting a Sol... Read more...

Solaris 10 Container in Solaris 11

17 Apr 2011 Second Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 10 branded container in Solaris 11 Read more...