OpenSolaris Archive

  • OpenSolaris iSCSI Initiator

    OpenSolaris iSCSI Initiator

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    As part of my testing phase during the custom SAN project, I was running into performance issues with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator and the OpenSolaris COMSTAR iSCSI target. Although some individuals were running into significant performance issues, such as 600KB/sec writes, my problem was...

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  • OpenSolaris iSCSI Target

    OpenSolaris iSCSI Target

    Posted on September 4, 2009 | 3 Comments
    After spending a good amount of time on the iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET) solution and running into compatibility issues with VMware ESX 3.5 and 4.0, I decided to move on to other solutions. After reading up on the ZFS file system and how the features...

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  • OpenSolaris Link Aggregation with LACP

    OpenSolaris Link Aggregation with LACP

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
    So which is it? What is your favorite Linux? Transitioning from the clunky “bonding” in RedHat to the ease of configuring link aggregation in OpenSolaris – among other things – I am beginning to love OpenSolaris. Creating the Link Aggregate If your configuration was similar...

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  • Disable GUI (GDM) in OpenSolaris

    Disable GUI (GDM) in OpenSolaris

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
    Recently I have been working on an iSCSI target using SUN’s OpenSolaris and SUN’s iSCSI target, COMSTAR. After installing and configuring OpenSolaris I wanted to disable the GUI to save on resources. Forunately this is easy with OpenSolaris. Disable GUI To disable the GUI, type...

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