I haven't tried this yet in a real world example. In some instances you might be moving large amount...

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I recently had to touch a pretty old AIX OS and it frustrated me not to have human readable output f...

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I recently had an issue where the Solaris SMF did not want to update my /etc/resolv.conf file. Even...

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I had to do the following to display a X terminal remotely.

Solaris 10:
This initial Solaris inst...

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By default Solaris 10 use "/" as root's home directory and plain sh as a shell. If you want to chang...

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Solaris use Role Based Access which is a better way to allow system access to defined users and only...

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If you experience issues with installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions it could be that the build e...

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I recently needed to copy files using scp, while not able to copy directly to the target host. I had...

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UPDATE: 1: On a subsequent kernel upgrade to 3.8.0.25 I realized that the zfs modules are getting...

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For those familiar with the excellent ZFS file system and the Sun(now Oracle) storage products built...

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In a previous article I setup Ubuntu 13.04 to run off a ZFS root pool. During my setup I used 4G out...

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I recently tried booting Ubuntu 13.04 with a zfs root file system; after the zfs 0.6.1 kernel module...

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For whatever reason you ever need to migrate an OVM Manager to a different host this would be helpfu...

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VirtualBox can import to OCI

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe showhdinfo c:\DATA\...

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Sometimes you find yourself having to redirect the X display to a different host but "ssh -X hostnam...

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