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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:01:14 -0700 contact.bigadmin@sun.com Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:01:14 2009-07-02 Part of the BigAdmin Patching Center - The Firmware Release hub provides firmware FAQs, information about available Sun firmware releases, and other resources to help you manage your Sun systems. * Frequently Asked Questions About Sun System Firmware * History of Sun Firmware Naming and Versioning * Feature History of SysFW 6.x and 7.x Major and Minor Releases for Sun CMT Systems * Firmware Release History per Platform for Sun Systems Recent updates for Release History: * Revised for new releases of Sun Blade X6250, Sun Ultra 24 workstation, XCP 1082/1081. * Added X6275 1.1, X4540 2.0, X2250 1.3, X2270 1.2 & 1.2.1, X4170 2.0 and Netra X4250 2.2. * Added a 3.0 release for X4140/X4240/X4440 * Added X6270 2.0 http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_system_firmware&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+System+Firmware+Release+Hub 2009-07-02 If you're a Linux network admin, you'll find this new How To Guide helpful in translating your Linux skills to OpenSolaris. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/opensolaris_network&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_OpenSolaris+Network+Administration+How+To+Guide 2009-07-02 This quick start guide shows how to set up a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System to use CommVault Simpana Data Archiver (DA) with the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/using_commvault_sim&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Using+CommVault+Simpana+Data+Archiver+and+CIFS+With+Sun+Storage+7000+Unified+Storage+System 2009-07-01 Performance testing and developing best practices for the Sun Storage 7000 series is the subject of a three-part blog by Fishworks Engineer Brendan Gregg. The complexities of the hybrid storage pool make performance testing a more complicated but no less necessary process, he notes in part 1. This part lists 10 suggestions for performance testing - the big stuff you need to get right. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/performance_testing_&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Performance+Testing+the+7000+series%2C+part+1+of+3 2009-07-01 This Sun BluePrints article provides performance tuning recommendations and guidelines to allow an IT administrator or experienced MD Nastran user to configure MD Nastran and the hardware platform for optimum performance (reduced elapsed times). This article offers best practice guidelines for customizing the platform's memory and disk configuration and optimizing the available processing cores on each compute node. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_business_ready_&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+Business+Ready+HPC+for+MD+Nastran 2009-07-01 In part 2 of this three-part blog, Brendan Gregg provides a tuning checklist for achieving maximum performance on the Sun Storage 7410, particularly for finding performance limits. This kind of tuning is used during product development, to drive systems as fast as possible to identify and solve bottlenecks. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/performance_testing&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Performance+Testing+the+7000+series%2C+part+2+of+3 2009-07-01 In part 3 of this three-part blog, Brendan Gregg posts load generation scripts he has used to measure the limits of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/performance_testing__&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Performance+Testing+the+7000+series%2C+part+3+of+3 2009-07-01 Volumes on a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System can be published to a Microsoft Windows server using CIFS or iSCSI with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases. The necessary steps are outlined here. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/deployment_guide_fo_&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Deployment+Guide+for+Microsoft+SQL+Server+2005+Database+on+Sun+Storage+7000+Unified+Storage+System 2009-07-01 This Sun BluePrints article explains the process of moving an SAP environment from one system to another, and describes the resources and services available from Sun to assist users planning a migration. In general, there are two types of migration: homogeneous and heterogeneous. A homogeneous migration is a migration from one platform and database architecture to the same platform and database. This article focuses on the more challenging type of migration - heterogeneous. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/best_practices_for_______&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Best+Practices+for+Migrating+SAP+Environments 2009-07-01 FAQs for transition from Solaris 9 - upgrade guides and more. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/solaris_9_transitio&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Solaris+9+Transition+FAQs 2009-06-29 This thread discusses how to get user login attempts sent to a syslog server and how to send a message to syslog with whatever facility and priority you want. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sending_syslog_to_r&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sending+syslog+to+remote+server 2009-06-29 In this blog, Ben Rockwood discusses how to do sustained monitoring with DTrace by running persistent traces and how to collect the data. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/taking_dtrace_to_th&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Taking+DTrace+to+the+Next+Level 2009-06-29 Solaris has a multiple page size support. This blog describes using 256M page support for Sun Web Server on CMT systems to improve performance. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/using_large_pages_s&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Using+large+pages+support+in+Sun+Web+Server 2009-06-29 This blog describes a demo of the power of the ZFS file system, which was presented at CeBit trade show for information and telecommunications technology. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/zfs_demo_the_cebit_&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_ZFS+demo:+The+CeBIT+magic 2009-06-25 Instructions written by Sun's OpenSolaris documentation team for setting up a server that you can use to automatically install OpenSolaris on multiple clients. Includes: - Requirements and Prep - Basic Instructions - Advanced Instructions http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/how_to_set_up_an_au&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_How+to+Set+Up+An+Automated+OpenSolaris+Installation+Server 2009-06-25 This SDN article reports on JSR 203, now a part of JDK 7, which brings a new API to the file system and provides functionality that Java developers have long requested: * An extensive File I/O API system addresses feature requests that developers have sought since the inception of the JDK. * A socket channel API addresses multicasting, socket binding associated with channels, and related issues. * An asynchronous I/O API enables mapping to I/O facilities, completion ports, and various I/O event port mechanisms to enhance scalability. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/the_java_nio_2_file&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_The+Java+NIO.2+File+System+in+JDK+7 2009-06-25 Jon Haslam's blog entry shows how DTrace can alter the values returned by uname(2) to provide the desired response. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/uname_lies___&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_uname+lies... 2009-06-24 A Sun Alert notification proactively informs you about important hardware and software issues related to Sun Microsystems products that could potentially affect your computing environment and productivity. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_alert_notifications&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Recently+Published+Sun+Alerts 2009-06-24 This short Solaris tech tip describes how to figure out which package a particular file belongs to. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/determine_which_pac&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Determine+which+package+a+file+belongs+to. 2009-06-23 This short tech tip answers the question: How can I change the default telnet banner? http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/change_default_teln&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Change+default+telnet+banner