Tag: OpenSolaris
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 …
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 …
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!
OpenSolaris gets more storage capabilities
The OpenSolaris community got a huge present today by way of Sun’s open sourcing of its StorageTek Availability Suite. This announcement by Jim Dunham goes into the details, but here’s a summary: Availability Suite is comprised of two primary components: Instant Image, which siphons data on a disk device as Read More …
Solaris 10’s new multipath storage tool (Part 1)
Solaris 10 11/06 was released in late 2006 with a plethora of new features, and among them a new tool called mpathadm, which comes as part of the SUNWmpathadm package. Before I delve into how this specific tool works and how it helps when managing multipathed storage in Solaris, I’ll Read More …
About that whole Solaris vs. Linux thing
This month there has a been a noticeable increase in buzz from IT pundits discussing whether Solaris now has the feature set critical mass required to win over exising Linux users and shops. On one hand, I think it’s tres cool that Solaris is and has been getting lots of Read More …
Google looking at OpenSolaris? (and an article cameo by yours truly)
An article over at Computer World reveals a rumor that Google might be investigating OpenSolaris as its future primary platform. The article goes on to describe the OpenSolaris community as it stands today, just over a year after its release. I’m quoted at the top of page 3.