Tag Archives: Solaris

Creating a local OmniOS repository

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Sometimes it is a good idea or even necessary to have a local mirror of OmniOS available, i.e. if you do not want to allow your severs direct access to the outside world. Setting up a local OmniOS repository is rather simple. 1. Create a local package repo To create an empty repo, run pkgrepo: 2. Grab packages from remote… Read more »

Upgrade OmniOS to r151014

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Just a quick memory hook on how to update an OmniOS release… Update the publisher to point to the new release, r151014 being the release version to update to in this case: To update the client’s list of available packages and publisher metadata, run The actual update process is invoked with If you happen to have use zones, the process… Read more »

Configuring LACP between OpenIndiana and a Dell Force10 switch

Link aggregation is a method of bundling interfaces together to act as one for increased bandwith and/or failover. One of most used protocols, next to a couple of proprietary ones, for controlling such a channel bond is LACP, the Link Aggregation Control Protocol. 1. Configuring LACP on Dell S4810 Let’s assume, we want to bond two 10G Ethernet ports together,… Read more »