(this will be edited over time as things get updated) This has been put together for my own archive since there is no guarantee that existing How-To’s are going to be available when needed (there was a key point in time when the Wilsonet.com site was down, and I really needed access to the steps).
Most of what you will find when searching the net for “solaris network interface alias” or “solaris interface alias” will be ways to create pseudo interfaces such as “hme0:1” or “ce0:1”. This is a well documented feature under Solaris. However, in my case, we were looking at ways to incorporate other systems in to our
Replacing a failed disk on any system can be a scary thought, but a lot of technology has been put together on the NetApp to make this as easy and painless as possible. Without going in to all of the talk about what RAID levels to use and the use of DP (dual parity) disks,