Solaris 10 10/09 (Update 8)
Recently Solaris 10 10/09 (aka: Update 8) released. You can see the complete What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release doc for details, but here is a brief overview. You can download the release from sun.com/solaris. Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS pcitool Utility nss_ldap shadowAccount Support Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0 Patch Set 6 Turbo-Charging SVR4 Packaging (faster pkg installs) Zones ...
Max Bruning at CommunityOne: Solaris Device Drivers
Max Bruning is one of my great heros. He's an amazing guy and incredible educator. At CommunityOne he did a 3 hour presentation on developing Solaris Device Drivers and, perhaps even more important to the readers of this blog, kernel debugging. If you have a passing familiarity with core dump analysis using mdb, you'll learn an incredible amount of skills from the latter portion of his presentation. Developing in OpenSolaris: Solaris ...
CommunityOne ZFS Presentations
At CommunityOne in San Francisco I did a 2 hour "Deep Dive" on ZFS titled "Becoming a ZFS Ninja". These talks focused on creating a firm understanding of core functionality and then briefly discussed higher level functionality. Lots of time was spent on pool construction and physical layout, as those areas are often overlooked. Becoming a ZFS Ninja (part 1) Becoming a ZFS Ninja (part 2) My Slide Deck (PDF) As always the ...
A Day at HP: SuperDome & HP-UX Live
In an effort to reach out to "new media", HP had a tech-day event at the Cupertino Campus for a variety of invited bloggers. For some reason I was among them, because inviting a Sun zealot to an HP-UX love-fest is always a recipe for a good time. I wore a Sun Microsystems shirt, of course, just to keep things clear. Some of the other attendees included David Adams of OS News, Saurabh Dubey of ActiveWin, and Andy McCaskey of SDR News. ...
“ZFS: The Next Word” with Jeff Bonwick & Bill Moore
Recorded at the Kernel Conference Australia 2009, Jeff Bonwick & Bill Moore, creators of ZFS, present: ZFS: The Next Word You can download the slides in PDF. Please ignore the fact that these slides are tagged for SDC, its the same preso. Topics included: Hybrid Pools User Quotas RAIDZ3: Triple Parity Dedup (the first public word on it besides "its coming...") ZFS Crypto ... and much more. Must watch!
SPARCstation IPC Forever?
When you die, turns out there are a lot of options. See, if you go the traditional route your headed for the ground, but if you opt for cremation all sorts of options open up... such as being put into a SPARCstation IPC... I know what your thinking... but according to some follow up by CNet this isn't a joke, its the real deal. And I kind of believe it, I personally want to be buried with a Sun E4500... just not inside it. So to ...
Understanding xVM: Foundations
As of Solaris Nevada Build 121 the virtualization technologies within Solaris have hit a very important milestone. Solaris Containers (Zones) are exceptional and well proven as a powerful solution. xVM (Xen) has been rev'ed up to Xen 3.3.1 and is both mature and capable. VirtualBox continues to provide a solution that competes strongly against VMWare solutions, especially given that its got better cross-platform support, runs as fast as ...
Manly Man: Work Clothes
For some reason I love "work clothes", in particular construction trade clothing. I suppose it comes from wearing a kilt for so long. When I first started wearing kilts on a daily basis, years ago, I did so because a) you stick out in a crowd, b) they are super comfortable, and c) they just look kool. Kilts are the ultimate "man" clothing. Thanks to the Utilikilt I also found kilts to be far more versatile and functional than traditional ...
Ed Zander Interviews Larry Ellison at Churchill Club
Ed Zander Interviews Larry Ellison at the Churchill Club on 9.21.09. I'm not seeing many people posting about this so I'm putting it out there. There are lots of rumors out there but this is the best info from the man himself. If you haven't heard of the prestigious Churchill Club, it's "Silicon Valley's premier business and technology forum." This is where the big wigs hobnob (and if you have some cash, should too). This is must ...
OpenSolaris Security Summit: Nov 3rd
On the fence about going LISA '09? Here's an added incentive! Attached the the show will be the OpenSolaris Security Summit. I personally know that the Solaris Security Group has put a lot of thought and effort into making this a great event. The schedule isn't fully fleshed out yet, but I highly recommend you attend if you can. ZFS Crypto.... what else do I need to say? Be there!