Step by step method to configure static IP address in Solaris10

Please find the step by step method to provide the static ip address on Solaris 10 operating system.

Step 1: Please run the below command to delete the old ip address. In my machine the "net1" Ethernet card is configured already.

sun> ipadm delete-ip net1

Step 2: To check the current status of all Ethernet card attached with machine as per below command.

sun> ipadm show-if -o all
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE CURRENT       PERSISTENT OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    -m46-v------  46--       --
net0       ip       ok       yes    bm46--------  46--       --
sppp0      ip       ok       yes    -m4-p-------  ----       --

Step 3: Please create your new Ethernet card as per below command.

sun> ipadm create-ip net1

sun> ipadm show-if -o all
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE CURRENT       PERSISTENT OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    -m46-v------  46--       --
net0       ip       ok       yes    bm46--------  46--       --
net1       ip       down     no     bm46--------  46--       --
sppp0      ip       ok       yes    -m4-p-------  ----       --

Step 4: To provide the static IP address please run the below command. Please change your IP address with highlighted address.

sun> ipadm create-addr -T static -a 172.26.7.29/16 net1/v4

In case of any issue please comment on the blog. 

How you will increase the file system size in Solaris 11

Please find the below method to increase the file system size in Solaris operating system.

1. First you need to check which "zpool" pool is used for your solaris file system. Generally if you server is not connected to any SAN, then zpool name should be "rpool"

2. You can run the below command to check the current zpool status.

#zpool status

In my machine two pool status you can see. My machine is connected to SAN , So I have two pool through which i can increase the file systems size.

3. Run the "df -h" command to check the current size and file system name as given below.

If you can see in above image my system root filesystem is created through "rpool" pool. So when i will increase the file system size then i can use only free space from "rpool" zpool.

4. Please find the below command to increase the file system size. (ex. we will increase the root file system size here)

#zfs set quota=69G rpool/ROOT/solaris-1

If you see the output of df -h , the current size of root file system is 67 GB, and if we want to increase 2GB space more, then you can use the above command. We can fixed the quota size of file system then reserve it. 

#zfs set reservation=69G rpool/ROOT/solaris-1

after successfully run above command you can found that your file system size can increase to 2 GB more and same size has been reduced to "rpool" pool.