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In this blogpost we will see how we can provision the newly added disks to the guest VM and inside guest VM how we can add the newly provisioned disks to an existing mirrored zpool. Check the disks on controller Domain: root@IJRERPS72L:/dev/rdsk# echo | format Searching for disks...done 20. c3t5000CCA02B324091d0 /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b324091,0 /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD20/disk 21. c3t5000CCA02B31C5A1d0 /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b31c5a1,0 /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD21/disk 22. c3t5000CCA02B31D57Dd0 /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b31d57d,0 /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD22/disk 23. c3t5000CCA02B30E6B1d0 /pci@302/pci@2/pci@0/pci@17/LSI,sas@0/iport@ff/disk@w5000cca02b30e6b1,0 /dev/chassis/SYS/HDD23/disk Disks 20-23 to be provisioned on guest domain.   Create logical disk service for new disks on the controller do...

Are you stuck in same situation where your guest ldom root file system is full and VM went into the transition mode? Then this is the right technical article that will help you to overcome this issue. We encountered this issue in one of our customer environments and were able to fix it successfully. Currently there are two volumes attached to to virtual machine DISK NAME VOLUME TOUT ID DEVICE SERVER MPGROUP ijrcrm5-vol1 ijrcrm5-vol1@primary-vds0 0 disk@0 primary ijrcrm1-vol2 ijrcrm5-vol2@primary-vds0 1 disk@1 primary ijrcrm5-vol1 is the OS volume attached to the VM root@IJRSVP-SOL-CDM1:/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool# zfs get volsize rpool/ijrcrm5-vol1 NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/ijrcrm5-vol1 volsize 50G local root@IJRSVP-SOL-CDM1:/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool# Now we need to increase the volume size from the controller domain: root@IJRSVP-SOL-CDM1:/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool# zfs set volsize=70g rpool/ijrcrm5-vol1...

I was Installing Oracle Database 12c on Oracle Solaris 11.2 and the pre-requisites for database Installation failed for SWAP memory requirement. The configured swap memory on the server is 1GB and the Physical memory of the server is 4GB. There should be at least 4GB of SWAP memory configured to avoid this error. This is article will help to Increase the SWAP memory of the system without any downtime. We can add additional SWAP memory online using zfs commands. - Identify the current volume using for SWAP: root@soltest1:~# swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 303,1 8 2097144 2097144 - Identify the size of the current SWAP space: root@soltest1:~# zfs get volsize rpool/swap NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/swap volsize 1G local - Set new size for SWAP volume root@soltest1:~# zfs set volsize=5g rpool/swap root@soltest1:~# zfs get volsize rpool/swap NAME PROPERTY VAL...

There was an error on boot Solaris Guest VM on sparc hardware and the installation is not starting on this virtual machine. We encountered the following Error while booting the vitual machine: root@SOLSVP-SOL-CDM1:~# telnet localhost 5001 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connecting to console "SOLSVP-SBL-DB1" in group "SOLSVP-SBL-DB1" .... Press ~? for control options .. Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Requesting Internet Address for 0:14:4f:f9:6e:e0 Cause:   There is no bootable installation media is attached to the server.   Solution:   Please verify the media connected to the guest VM and if...

I was trying to add Oracle Solaris 11.2 Host in Oracle EM 12cR4. The OMS Server is Installed on Linux-64bit. There was no agent available to deploy it on the Solaris host. In this article will demonstrate how to install download and install the unavailable agent software on EM12c OMS Server in an offline mode. Login to EM12c console and navigate: Setup >> selfupdate >> Agent Software It will list down all available agent software's.  If the agent software is available then you need to download the required patch and apply it in a offline mode. Here for Solaris 11 agent software is available but not applied. - To apply this patch on OMS download the patch "18797137" from MOS and update it in the OMS software library using emcli command in offline mode. - Upload the patch to Server accessible to OMS user. - Login to "sysman" user using emcli command [oracle@oem12c sw_home]$ /u01/em12c_home/oms/bin/emcli login -username=sysman E...

I was trying to Install oracle database 11.2.0.3 on one of newly configured Oracle Solaris 11 X86-64 bit BOX. I have encountered below error message while executing runInstaller: jdk/jre/ lib/amd64/motif21/libmawt.so: ld.so.1: java: fatal: libXm.so open failed no such file or directory Cause: Installer is expecting library file  "libmawt.so" which eventually doesn't exists. So there is  a missing package on OS Solution: Install missing package "pkg://solaris/library/motif" 1 - Search for missing package in repository 2 -  Install missing package 3 - Now runInstaller , it should work normally without any errors: Note: For Installing this package you should have You IPS properly configured. Please refer my blog post about configuring IPS if you need more information:  http://appsdbaworkshop.blogspot.com/2013/03/configuration-of-ips-on-oracle-solaris11.html Thanks for reading. Happy troubleshooting :) regards, X A H E E R