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The Solaris 10 OS supports the sharing of remote file resources and presents them to users as if they were local files and directories. The primary distributed file system (DFS) type supported by Solaris 10 OS is NFS. Which three statements are true about NFS as supported by Solaris 10 OS? (Choose three.) A. The NFS server supported by Solaris 10 OS uses TCP exclusively. B. An NFSv4-capable server can communicate with clients that use NFSv3 or earlier. C. NFS uses the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) method of communication. D. The NFS server supported by Solaris 10 OS can only communicate with clients using ... Read Full Story

Setting up an LVM filesystem is quite easy assuming you have the right tools installed and a recent kernel. LVM has a lot of advantages, most notably the ability to take snapshots of the current filesystem – this is why LVM is often used in live database environments. Assuming a Debian Lenny machine, get the relevant packages. Some may already be installed: apt-get install lvm2 dmsetup mdadm In this example, we will assuming that /dev/sda is your boot drive, and that you want to leave it out of your LVM array, but include /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. Both /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc should be of equal ... Read Full Story

Setting up an LVM filesystem is quite easy assuming you have the right tools installed and a recent kernel. LVM has a lot of advantages, most notably the ability to take snapshots of the current filesystem – this is why LVM is often used in live database environments. Assuming a Debian Lenny machine, get the relevant packages. Some may already be installed: apt-get install lvm2 dmsetup mdadm In this example, we will assuming that /dev/sda is your boot drive, and that you want to leave it out of your LVM array, but include /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. Both /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc should be of equal ... Read Full Story

Moving a Xen Guest into an LVM container from a loopback sparse image is easy enough. You’ll need to power down the VM using xm shutdown mymachine Once done, create the logical volume with: lvcreate –name mymachine-disk –size 10G myvg 10G should match the exact size (if not more) of your current VM. Now create the same for the swap file: lvcreate -name mymachine-swap -size 128M myvg . Now edit your machine’s config (/etc/xen/mymachine.cfg), replacing the disk part from: disk = [ 'file:/xen/mymachine/mymachine-swap,sda1,w', 'file:/xen/mymachine/mymachine-disk,sda2,w', ] to disk = [ 'phy:/dev/myvg/mymachine-swap,sda1,w', 'phy:/dev/myvg/mymachine-disk,sda2,w', ] And use dd to write the disk to your new LVM filesystem: ... Read Full Story

Moving a Xen Guest into an LVM container from a loopback sparse image is easy enough. You’ll need to power down the VM using xm shutdown mymachine Once done, create the logical volume with: lvcreate –name mymachine-disk –size 10G myvg 10G should match the exact size (if not more) of your current VM. Now create the same for the swap file: lvcreate -name mymachine-swap -size 128M myvg . Now edit your machine’s config (/etc/xen/mymachine.cfg), replacing the disk part from: disk = [ 'file:/xen/mymachine/mymachine-swap,sda1,w', 'file:/xen/mymachine/mymachine-disk,sda2,w', ] to disk = [ 'phy:/dev/myvg/mymachine-swap,sda1,w', 'phy:/dev/myvg/mymachine-disk,sda2,w', ] And use dd to write the disk to your new LVM filesystem: ... Read Full Story