Remote Management of ZFS servers with Puppet and RAD

Manuel Zach blogs about how to use Puppet and the new Solaris RAD's REST interface introduced in Solaris 11.3. Solaris RAD is really interesting if you want to manage your servers via a programmatic interface.

Kernel Zones - Adding Local Disks

It is possible to add a disk drive to a kernel zone by specifying its physical location intead of CTD.

add device
set storage=dev:chassis/SYS/HDD23/disk
set id=1
end

This is very nice on servers like x5-2l with pass-thru controller when all 26 local disks are visible like this.