Archive for March, 2008

Solaris 10 - Hardening - Part 1

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Solaris 10 provides a lot of network services running by default, which is unacceptable at the present. This document describes how to disable these services and also tune some parameters of the TCP/IP stack in order to avoid DDoS network floods and globally increase network security. 1. Disable unrequested network services: svcadm disable ...

Creating ZFS datasets under ZFS pool in Solaris 10.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Solaris 10 comes with powerful command called 'zpool'. It configures ZFS storage pools. A storage pool is a collection of devices that provides physical storage and data replication for ZFS datasets. All datasets within a storage pool share the same space. Let's create our first ZFS pool. As states in the manual, ...