Solaris 11 features: nscfg
As you may have noticed many configuration tasks around name services have moved into the SMF in Solaris 11. However you don’t have to use the svccfg command in order...
Future of Solaris
Alan Coopersmith gives some interesting and important insights into the future of Solaris.
Yet another cheatsheet update ...
Yet another update of the Solaris 11 cheatsheet. Some additions about disk devices, some bug fixes (there is one additional bug “Configuring system locale:” must be “Configuring time zone” …...
Linux on 8-bit
This is nothing short of extremly cool from a technical perspective. The author has done it by writing an ARM emulator for an AVR controller and running Linux with this...
SPARC Power Management Article at OTN
My colleague Karoly Vegh pointed in a tweet to a really interesting article about the usage of Power Management of SPARC T-series systems. The article explains how to use the...
Oracle Solaris 11 Developer Webinar Series
Starting March 27th a number of events called “Oracle Solaris 11 Developer Webinar Series” (that said, i think they are not only interesting for developers, but for admins as well...
Solaris 11 cheatsheet updated
There is an updated version of the Solaris 11 cheatsheet.
NGN/NLUUG conferentie vj2012: Operating Systems
On April 11th, 2012 the Spring 2012 conference with the topic overarching topic “Operating Systems” takes place in Nieuwegein near Utrecht. Besides talks about Linux, Windows and AIX, there will...
Tutorial for Automated Installer
Stefan Hinker wrote a nice tutorial helping you at the setup of a local install server: “Setting up a local AI server - easy with Solaris 11”.
Performance impact of the new mtmalloc memory allocator
I wrote at a number of occasions (here or here), that it could be really beneficial to use a different memory allocator for highly-threaded workloads, as the standard allocator is...
Oracle Solaris 11 Cheatsheet
In the last few days i created a cheat sheet for Solaris 11 … while it’s still a work in progress (it will be surely longer in the future). it’s...
How to show off live migration with a SPARC system?
Yesterday i had the opportunity to show Oracle VM for SPARC in front of customers in action. Not a single slide was used … Everything was live ;) . The...
Cheatsheet for configuring a new nodename in Solaris 11
In Solaris 11 the file /etc/nodename is gone. In order to change you nodename you have alter the configuration of an smf service: root@fuchikoma:/home/jmoekamp# hostname tachikoma root@fuchikoma:/home/jmoekamp# svccfg -s svc:/system/identity:node...
Cheatsheet for configuring the networking in Solaris 11
There are quite a number of changes in the procedures to configure some of the networking parameters. Many things have changed, that were just editing of a file in the...
Being relaxed in regard of retention
Robin Harris of StorageMojo pointed to an interesting research paper: “Optimizing NAND Flash-Based SSDs via Retention Relaxation”. The idea of the method described in that paper is basically: The physics...
Using encrypted lofi devices for backup
My colleague Constantin wrote a nice article about using encrypted loopback file based pools for backup purposes for example. And don’t forget you can do deduplication or snapshots as well...
More than this
I had many interesting discussions in the last few days. However some of them gave me the impression that i should explain one thing. I want to use one example...
Solaris 11 in Common Criteria evaluation
As i got the question on the Solaris 11 Techdays: As reported by the Oracle Tech Network Solaris 11 is now in evaluation under the Operating System Protection Profile using...
Veranstaltungshinweis für Düsseldorf
Ich möchte noch mal einen Veranstaltungshinweise loswerden. Mein Kollege Michael Faerber organisiert für den 8.3 ein Oracle Breakfast in Düsseldorf. Das ist quasi “Vorträge mit Mampf”. Zwei Vorträge sind für...
So far ...
It’s a few days since the event in Munich, the last one in the series in Germany. The last two weeks were really cool. There were many many people at...