OpenSolaris 2009.06 quick guide

OpenSolaris 2009.06 was released today! I have written a very quick guide for customizing and adding some basic services to an OSOL 2009.06 server from the shell.

Package operations

Install the storage-nas cluster (CIFS,iSCSI, NDMP etc.)

$ pfexec pkg install storage-nas

Add compilers (sunstudio, it can be replaced with e.g. gcc-dev-4)

$ pfexec pkg install sunstudio

Add the contrib repository for contributed packages

$ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib contrib

Other packages that can be of interest:

SUNWmysql51, ruby-dev, SUNWPython26, SUNWapch22m-dtrace, amp-dev, gcc-dev-4

List available and installed packages with search string

$ pkg list -a SUNWgzip
NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION STATE UFIX
SUNWgzip 1.3.5-0.111 installed ----

$ pkg list -a '*Python26*'
NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION STATE UFIX
SUNWPython26 2.6.1-0.111 known ----
SUNWPython26-extra 0.5.11-0.111 known ----

Sharing

Create a ZFS filesystem with compression enabled

$ pfexec zfs create -o compression=on rpool/export/share

Share with NFS

Enable NFS service:

$ pfexec svcadm enable -r nfs/server

Enable sharing over NFS for the share filesystem

$ zfs set sharenfs=on rpool/export/share

Share with CIFS

$ pfexec svcadm enable smb/server
$ pfexec zfs set sharesmb=on rpool/export/share
$ pfexec zfs set sharesmb=name=mysharename rpool/export/share

To enable users to access the CIFS share add the following line to /etc/pam.conf and reset users pw with passwd(1):

other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn

Enable auto ZFS-snapshots

Disable snapshots globally for the whole pool:

$ pfexec zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false rpool

Enable snapshots for the share:

$ pfexec zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=true rpool/export/share

Enable daily snapshots (can be frequent, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly):

$ pfexec svcsadm enable auto-snapshot:daily

List snapshots:

$ zfs list -t snapshot

If you are unfamiliar with Solaris, read the manual pages for the following commands:

prstat, fsstat, pkg, powertop, zfs, zpool, sharemgr, ipfilter, dladm, fmdump

NOTE: There are graphical options for snapshot setup and the package manager that can be used from graphical console, VNC or forwarded X. Launch them with with "time-slider-setup" or "packagemanager".