Transporting servers from one site to another site is always a painful job. There are a lot of precautions that must be addressed, such as backup, for data and OS…

So I have a user in my box, dedicated only to run database dump from our oracle database. All they have to do, is to execute a specific command, with…

Oracle’s ASM uses raw device to perform their disk operation. What we usually do is that we assign a LUN from a SAN to a server, then assign the raw…

This is tested on AIX 6.1. When you try to add a disk to an existing VG, by doing: #extendvg vgdata hdisk20 you may receive the following error message: 0516-1714…

So, recently we need to put vnc server on a newly installed AIX 6.1 box. The installation went smooth, and we were able to start the vncserver. The problem is,…

RAC clusters share the same disk(s) among its nodes, and basically you what we need to make sure that the disk(s) is recognized by each RAC nodes under the same…

One thing that you need to set up LanFree on TSM (or any kind of SAN Fiber channel backup) is the serial number of the tape drive registered on your…

I miss bash when I’m working on those aix boxes. On default setting ksh won’t give you your command history on the press of arrow keys. Yes you can set…

I hit a roadblock when trying to copy a 50G file from an NFS mount to a local disk on an AIX 5.3 server. The error is as follows: 0653-447…

So I don’t know what that vendor engineer did to my EBS install, some of the concurrent manager function is spitting temporary files to my /tmp directory. The thing is,…