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Posts from 2007
Veritas volume manager recovery features article
I just posted my article Veritas volume manager recovery features to my website. If your are interested in learning about several techniques that can be used to protect servers running VxVM, you might be interested in the article.
$ read more →Using the Emulex storage tools to manage Leadville controlled Emulex adapters
With the introduction of Solaris 10, the Sun leadville storage stack was integrated into Solaris. This means that you no longer need to download and install the SFS stack or third party drivers, and the native Solaris tools (e.g., iostat, mpathadm, fcinfo, luxadm, etc.) can be used to manage specific aspects of storage management. I would like to emphasize the word "specific," since there are a number of management tasks that can't be performed (or performed easily) with the built-in tools. If you happen to be using Emulex host bus adapters with Solaris 10, you are in luck…
$ read more →Observing I/O behavior with the DTraceToolkit article
I just posted my article observing I/O behavior with the DTraceToolkit to my website. If your interested in learning more about how to analyze I/O behavior on Solaris 10 and Nevada hosts, you might be interested in the article. I would like to thank Brendan Gregg for proofreading the article for me.
$ read more →Getting to know the Solaris iSCSI stack article
I have an article titled getting to know the Solaris iSCSI stack in the August issue of SysAdmin magazine. If you are interested in learning more about iSCSI and the Solaris iSCSI stack, you might be interested in this article. I would like to thank Adam Leventhal for proofreading the article for me. Adam is a super sharp cat, and definitely one of the coolest kernel egineers I have ever met!!
$ read more →Real world uses for OpenSSL article
I just posted by article real world uses for OpenSSL to my website. If your interested in learning more about openssl, ssl-service-check and ssl-cert-check, you might be interested in the article.
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