Tag: Sun
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 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 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
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” 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 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 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!
The state of enterprise storage for the Little Guy
Earlier this month I spewed some vitriol over an unpleasant discovery regarding the Sun StorageTek 6140 array and its underwhelming out-of-the-box feature set (which, three weeks later, remains an unresolved issue even after contacting and working with my VAR, Sun Read More …
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: Read More …
Sun + Intel = A Decent Move
Sun and Intel announced a new partnership between the two companies today, with both CEOs presenting at a news conference this morning. Sun hasn’t had a Intel CPU in its product line since Sun discontinued its Pentium 4-based V60z server Read More …