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Solaris 11.3 Restore rpool

I recently had the pleasure of restoring a Solaris IO domain backup on a T5-8 server. We lost the complete PCIe path to the local disks due to a hardware failure, but wanted to restore partial functionality for the guest LDOMs like vnet and at least one SAN…

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Freeing Memory

ZFS frees up its cache in a way that does not cause a memory shortage. The system can operate with lower freemem without suffering a performance penalty. ZFS returns memory from the ARC only when there is a memory pressure. However, there are occasions when…

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