SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Install Solaris 10 Update 9 - ZFS only
Summary: How to install Solaris 10 U9 in VMware with only ZFS as filesystem
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 1 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Solaris 10 Update 9 was the first edition of solaris after Oracle took over Sun. There hasn't changed much in the install procedure, but I hadn't done a full ZFS install yet, so I decided to create a new howto. This page will have a follow up for post install configuration.
This installation was done in a VMware vSphere VM, with a vmxnet3 network adapter. That adapter is not natively supported by VMware, so the VMware Tools will have to be installed before the network card will be available.
Note: If you're looking for a installation with the root filesystem being UFS, take a look at Install Solaris 10 Update 8.
Install Solaris 10 Update 8
Summary: How to install Solaris 10 U8 in VMware
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 1 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is an installation report for installing a default Solaris 10 update 8 server. Note that the server is a virtual machine with a new VMXNET3 network card. This network card is not supported by the Solaris native filesystem so to the installation process is like there is no network card to configure. We'll install and configure the network card afterwards after installing the VMware Tools. Also note that the VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapter is not supported on Solaris so keep the default SCSI controller.
Used Media: sol-10-u8-ga-x86-dvd.iso
Note: If you're looking for a installation with the root filesystem being ZFS, take a look at Install Solaris 10 Update 9 - ZFS only.
Install Exceed Connection Server on Solaris
Summary: Installation report for Exceed Connection Server software on Solaris.
Date: Around 2019
Refactor: 4 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Infra Toolbox
Summary: This is what I call my Infra Toolbox. After working in IT Infra for over 25 years in all functions you can think of I think I know what you need to do to keep everything running smoothly. This is based on my own experience, both as a system administrator as well as a teamlead.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 2 January 2025: Added diagram, added info on agile and devops.
The major topics are:
- Datacenter services
- Platform services
- Infrastructure services
- Applications
- Presentation services
- Security services
- Management services
Note that the overview does not really include scrum and devops practices. The overview if from a work environment before agile and devops principles were implemented on a broad scale. If you are working in a company that uses agile and devops, be sure to add things like, transparency, inspection and adaption, infra as code and automate everything into your environment as well.