Solaris OracleClusterware

Get release information

# pkg info kernel | nawl -F '.' '/Build Release:/{solaris=$NF;}/Branch:/{subrel=$3;update=$4;}END{printf "Solaris %d.%d Update %d\n",solaris,subrel,update;}'

Check pkg dependencies

# pkg list developer/assembler developer/build/make

User / group settings

Project

# groupadd -g 186 oinstall
# projadd  -p 186 -G oinstall \
    -K process.max-file-descriptor="(privileged,65536,deny)" \
    -K process.max-sem-nsems="(privileged,2048,deny)" \
    -K project.max-sem-ids="(privileged,2048,deny)" \
    -K project.max-shm-ids="(privileged,200,deny)" \
    -K project.max-shm-memory="(privileged,274877906944,deny)" \
    group.oinstall

Network

Check port ranges

# for protocol in tcp udp ; do ipadm show-prop ${protocol} -p smallest_anon_port,largest_anon_port ; done
PROTO PROPERTY              PERM CURRENT      PERSISTENT   DEFAULT      POSSIBLE
tcp   smallest_anon_port    rw   9000         9000         32768        1024-65500
tcp   largest_anon_port     rw   65500        65500        65535        9000-65535
PROTO PROPERTY              PERM CURRENT      PERSISTENT   DEFAULT      POSSIBLE
udp   smallest_anon_port    rw   9000         9000         32768        1024-65500
udp   largest_anon_port     rw   65500        65500        65535        9000-65535

Set swap to physical RAM

# export RAM=256G
# swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap
# zfs destroy rpool/swap
# zfs create \
   -V ${RAM} \
   -b 8k \
   -o primarycache=metadata \
   -o chksum=on \
   -o dedup=off \
   -o encryption=off \
   -o compression=off \
   rpool/swap
# swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap

Set slew always for ntp

After configuring ntp set slew always to avoid time warps!

# svccfg -s svc:/network/ntp:default setprop config/slew_always = true
# svcadm refresh svc:/network/ntp:default
# svccfg -s svc:/network/ntp:default listprop config/slew_always
config/slew_always boolean    true