Solaris 11: root/solaris
Cyclades console servers (e.g. ACS4): root/tslinux
Avocent ACS5000 console servers: root/avocent
Cisco VPN3000: admin/admin
Cisco ASA: empty
Netscreen: netscreen/netscreen
Avocent/Cyclades PM IPDU: admin/pm8

Solaris 11 EA (Sep 2011 build 173) updated zpool version to 33:

$ zpool upgrade -v
This system is currently running ZFS pool version 33.

The following versions are supported:

VER DESCRIPTION
— ——————————————————–
1 Initial ZFS version
2 Ditto blocks (replicated metadata)
3 Hot spares and double parity RAID-Z
4 zpool history
5 Compression using the gzip algorithm
6 bootfs pool property
7 Separate intent log devices
8 Delegated administration
9 refquota and refreservation properties
10 Cache devices
11 Improved scrub performance
12 Snapshot properties
13 snapused property
14 passthrough-x aclinherit
15 user/group space accounting
16 stmf property support
17 Triple-parity RAID-Z
18 Snapshot user holds
19 Log device removal
20 Compression using zle (zero-length encoding)
21 Deduplication
22 Received properties (Solaris Nevada b130 Dec 2009)
23 Slim ZIL
24 System attributes
25 Improved scrub stats
26 Improved snapshot deletion performance
27 Improved snapshot creation performance
28 Multiple vdev replacements (ZFS for Linux)
29 RAID-Z/mirror hybrid allocator
30 Encryption
31 Improved 'zfs list' performance (Solaris 11 Express b151a Nov 2010)
32 One MB blocksize
33 Improved share support (Solaris 11 EA b173 Sep 2011)

Not sure if it's a problem of VirtualBox, but when trying to install Win7x64 SP1 Windows stuck with the following message:

Fatal error C0000034 applying update operation 282 of 117809 (_00000…)

This method helped!

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Short tutorial on how to connect, format, mount, detach and reconnect external USB disks.

The used disk is WD20EARS connected to a USB port via Sharkoon Quickport Pro cradle.

Basically, you need only two commands:

• rmformat – to determine the device name/path
• zpool – to do the rest (create ZFS, mount, attach and detach)

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The bottom line – Sweex PU202 (eSATA PCI express card) based on Sil3515 chipset is not supported by nv_125.

Both cfgadm and prtdiag see that there is something in the slot:

"format -e" does not see the disk connected to that card.

Given:

• QNAP TS-439 Pro NAS with 4 x WD20EADS in RAID-5
• eSATA/USB Sharkoon QuickPort Pro SATA cradle
• WD20EARS
• 1.7TB data on RAID-5

Guess, how long will it take to back up 1.7TB of mostly big files to a directly connected eSATA disk using standard GUI commands?
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I thought that nothing could be easier on Solaris than to mount a directory from a QNAP NAS (running Linux). Ha! Nope… Here's some gotchas.

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To enable verbose poweroff messages  add the following to /etc/system:

Where "7" is the verbosity level.

"Old" Solaris approach: a zone with exclusive IP-stack requires a separate physical network interface.

"New" Solaris 11 (project Crossbow, beginning b105) approach: you have one physical interface and you do with it whatever you want. You can create a whole network within your single box and a single network card.

Here's an example on how to migrate your existing zones with shared stack to "independent" zones.

Old configuration: one global zone (system name xeon), one non-global zone (dmz), one physical interface (e1000g0), two VLAN's (1 and 10):

"Defrouters" are defined in the global zone. So, if the global zone has a defaultrouter set to 10.0.1.1, you will have this route in zone "dmz". You can't get rid of it and force the traffic to 10.0.0.1. Instead you will have two default routes in both zones.

Now, let's have a look at the virtual interfaces (a part of the new concept).
Currently we do not have any:

Let's create two virtual interfaces, each of them will belong to a separate VLAN. You can choose a name for a virtual interface and call it whatever (almost ;-) ) you want:

Now we have two virtual interfaces:

• dmz1 – VLAN 1
• dmz0 – VLAN 10

with randomly assigned MAC addresses. You can assign an arbitrary MAC address to a virtual interface or use a factory one. (see man dladm).

Reconfigure the zone:

Now, (re)boot your zone and configure the network interfaces and default routes as if they were on a standalone system.

Nice! I love Solaris …

To speed things up Bluefish 1.3.3 has static inline functions. However, GCC thinks that the “inlineness” is defined twice:

This is an excerpt from the source:

to

Also see the previous post (http://www.alekz.net/archives/432) on Bluefish.