Month: October 2018

Solaris 11.3 accepted shared devices that used the normal multi pathing names like /dev/dsk/c0t600C0FF0003B286921E7BD5B01000000d0 but Solaris 11.4 won’t recognize these as shared devices when you try to live migrate a zone: You’ll need to convert these paths to use the luname format. This is described in the Oracle documentation, but here’s what you need to do.  NOTE you’ll need…

If you’re looking to use live migration with your Solaris 11 kernel zones, you’ll need to get your zone onto shared storage.  In Solaris zone terminology, shared storage is storage that can be accessed by multiple hosts using the same device names. In this post, we’ll be using fiber channel storage and the built-in multi-pathing…

When you upgrade your Solaris system from 11.3 to 11.4, you may find that things don’t go well if you have configured the ARP property on the loopback interface (regardless of value, on or off). This is a little surprising as the ARP property for a loopback interface does not exist in Solaris 11.4.  This might be a common…

I recently used ZFS snapshots and ZFS send/recv to move a non-global zone from one host to another, as I’ve done hundreds of times, and was quite surprised to see that some data was missing.   Spoiler alert:  Solaris didn’t lose any data, but something non-obvious was happening. For a non-global zone that I need…

If your standard method for initializing an LDAP client in Solaris 11.3 no longer works in 11.4, you may need to look at your certificate locations. Previously, the LDAP client in Solaris was looking for *.db files containing your LDAP server’s certificate, typically in the /var/ldap directory.  In 11.4, more of openldap seems to be integrated…