If there is one service made easy with Solaris it is NFS. Originally developed and designed by SUN NFS is the industry standard UNIX file sharing mechanism today and is likely to remain the dominant player for some time due to its ubiquity, openness, time proven protocol, simplicity and ease of management not to mention …
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Getting Started with ZFS on Solaris
If you have been following along with my series on the SunFire V100 you know that I have installed Solaris 10 Core 8/7 onto it (adding in SSH and BASH packages to make it actually useful in the real world) and have put the root volume under the control of the Solaris Volume Manager or …
Java Snippet: Converting a Double to Currency
A common task in any programming language, especially for students, is to convert a double or a float into a properly round and formatted decimal format appropriate for use as currency. There are two rather discrete steps in this process. The first step is to round the number appropriately. When working with currency people tend …
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Introductory How-To with Solaris Volume Manager
Solaris Volume Manager, or SVM, is a logical disk management suite (formerly known as Solstice Disk Suite) that is included for free with the Solaris 9 and high operating systems. SVM is an important piece of SUN’s strategy for Solaris as it provides the basic functionality for logical volume management that UNIX users have come …
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Building a SunFire V100 from the LOM
When you first unbox your “new” SunFire V100 – as the SunFire V100 and V120 have not been made for some time now it is safe to assume that “new” is a relative term and that your V100 will have seen some prior use – you will need to do some work to get the …