Archive for the ‘Platforms’ Category
It is widely accepted as best practice to not use your root account in general. In Solaris they like some Linux distributions have gone so far as to prevent root access to SSH. Now we could go the route of permitting route logins to SSH however this would not be ideal from a security perspective. [...]
In our previous article “ZFS: Snapshot Management” we learned about the many methods of using snapshots to give you a shorter path to recovery as well as reduce the time needed to revert changes that need to be reversed. Today we will discuss clones, which are essentially a copy-on-write duplicate of an existing snapshot, which [...]
So snapshots are basically a point in time view of everything which exists on a file system at a given point in time. They allow you to build complex data protection schemes which can allow you to give more user-directed restore capabilities, as well as simply give you a good way to roll back complex [...]
This is the final part in the “So You Want to Learn ZFS” series. In Part One we discussed the reasons why you should be investigating ZFS if you are not already. Part Two highlighted some of the differences from a usability perspective of Solaris versus a more traditional Linux system. In Part Three we [...]
In my previous article we discussed the main reasons that you ought to be investigating ZFS as a storage platform for your organization. In this article we will be documenting some of the major pain points that people have when giving Solaris a shot. One common theme that you will notice throughout my writings about [...]