Rob Morrow's Weblog

Opening Statement
Firstly, these flockers :) make the tools that made it easy to get the blog moving forward:

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So, here's the deal. I needed a place-holder for problems/solutions that I encounter. I promise to update this area with both as I come across them. Not trying to reinvent the wheel here, but we still see interesting problems with Solaris/Storage/HES.

History: I am a Systems Support Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Basically this makes me Sun's customer-facing engineer for large installations and complex break/fix. Sun supports my endeavors with tools, standards, etc. I encounter such a wide range of systems/storage issues that it becomes difficult to track solutions generally because the volume gets so darn high.
I specialize in high-end server (SunFire 6900, E12K-E25K, etc.) and storage (6320/9990, etc.) I am also interested in tracking unusual workaday Solaris problems as well.
So, my thinking is that I can place  problem::solution descriptions here for later retrieval. I will openly place submitted comments in the blog (nothing too racy, please). If someone submits a SysAdmin/Engineering problem that is right for anything near my pay-grade (not rock-star...more like lounge-lyricist), I will post it and do what I can to help out. There should be a lot of system/storage output in here...descriptions, command output, how-do-I, sort of things.

So, to kick things off (and because I don't have a problem to solve today other than the sheer work involved in rebuilding a couple of E20K System Controllers from scratch--Solaris 8 shipped on the SC's---PITA), here's a site I have liked for several years: cuddletech. They do a particularly good job of creating cheat-sheets for VxVm, and there's a really good technical history of the San Foundation Suite FC driver stack (go to the main site, then append "fc"...I won't link it because there is a....ummm....questionable image at the top.)