Category: Solaris
Solaris and OpenSolaris
Mercury gets a HBA upgrade
mercury.elemental.org is the server which hosts my $HOME and this website. It’s my Solaris 10 play-box, and I guess you can say that maintaining it is something of a hobby. Its hardware is a quad core Xeon-equipped Dell PowerEdge 860, a small 1u server. Its pair of internal drives are Read More …
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – A Preview For The Storage Admin
Many reviews have been written about OpenSolaris since its release, but all of them barely tread beyond the desktop aspect, with the obligatory screenshots of the GNOME environment and a high-level description of only the major features most are already familiar with, or at least have heard of. I’d like Read More …
Server upgrade time – elemental.org gets modern
After almost 8 years of running elemental.org mail, mailing lists, shell accounts, many websites (such as this one), database servers and essentially being a one-server ISP, the Sun Ultra 2 which ran all those things as lithium.elemental.org was retired and replaced this past weekend with a new server. Say hello to mercury.elemental.org. Mercury is Read More …
Solaris 10 8/07 “What’s New” docs are up
The first official list of new stuff added in Solaris 10 via its 4th update is available on docs.sun.com now: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547/getjd?l=en&a=view
My presentation at the 2007 AFS & Kerberos Workshop
This past week, the 2007 AFS & Kerberos Workshop went on at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) near Palo Alto, CA. Many people from an array of places eductational, government, and commercial came and presented papers and discourse on a wide range of topics involving AFS and Kerberos. I Read More …
Funny Sun bug fix of the day
So today I was reading over the release notes for patch 126400-1, which is the latest OpenBoot PROM and SC update for the T1000/T2000, and came across an interesting bug ID listed under the Problem Description section: 6510364 “War Mode” in ALOM-CMT is required by the US NAVY which is Read More …
More Linux/Solaris FUD wars
It’s all too often that I read posts such as this one and can’t help but to think that the writer is a tad on the myopic side of things… so much so that after a paragraph or two it becomes apparent that the writer hasn’t actually used Solaris in Read More …
Crying “FUD” doesn’t always mean you’re right
…and it sure doesn’t grant you instant vindication. It appears that DaveM (Linux networking and SPARC port guru) has gotten seriously wound up in response to a blog post by Jeff Bonwick (Sun’s storage and kernel guru.) As one can see in Jeff’s post, the suject he wrote about was Read More …
Sun and Qlogic to open up the source of storage software
Sun has announced that they will be releasing several of their storage products to the OpenSolaris community! From their announcement: Sun StorageTek 5800 storage system (Honeycomb) client interfaces along with the Honeycomb software developer kit (SDK) and Honeycomb emulator/server. Honeycomb is a third-generation digital repository solution for data capture and Read More …
Sun Availability Suite blog
The maintainer(s) of Availability Suite (aka AVS) now have their own blog. I can’t wait to learn more about it!