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March 2009
From SysOp 31 Mar > OpenSolaris 2008.11 device drivers are now included in the BigAdmin Device Driver list, along with third-party devices that run on OpenSolaris 2008.11.
From SysOp 30 Mar > Are you running Solaris on Dell or IBM hardware? Then take a look at these resources for sys admins, including white papers, tech sheets, and FAQs.
From SysOp 27 Mar > OpenSolaris has a new utility called beadm for boot environments. This article shows how to manage BEs with beadm.
From SysOp 26 Mar > Sun Microsystems and the Internet Archive built the Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter using "Blackbox" technology, Sun Fire x4500 Open Storage Server, and ZFS. This digital library preserves public web sites from the past as well as multimedia content. For example, check out sun.com circa 1999.
From SysOp 25 Mar > Here is a Sun BluePrints article that describes how to install and configure the MySQL database in a Solaris Cluster environment.
From SysOp 24 Mar > Hitendra Zhangada, Sun engineer, wrote this article on console operations for Sun CMT SPARC platforms. The article looks at input and output devices in a domain and gives several host console use cases for Solaris and OpenBoot firmware.
From SysOp 23 Mar > This community-submitted article shows how Sun Ray 2 clients, large-screen displays, and OpenOffice.org 3 Impress were used for a centrally managed setup offering digital signage.
From SysOp 20 Mar > This community-submitted tech tip describes what data rot is, why you should fear it, and what you can do about it. Find out why the author chose the ZFS file system in the Solaris 10 OS to protect his family photos and his iTunes collection.
From SysOp 19 Mar > Documentation for Sun Studio Express 3/09 is now available. Developers can also join the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Early Access Program here. And there's a podcast on the new SSX release and EA program.
From SysOp 18 Mar > Community Tech Tip in Spanish: Desarrollo y Deploy de Web Services con Sun Java System Application Server 9. Este articulo describe como desplegar servicios web, con informacion sobre el registro y monitoreo de servicios web y la seguridad.
From SysOp 17 Mar > Check out this Sun BluePrints article describing how Booting over InfiniBand (BoIB) can offer consolidation and scaling benefits for systems with tens to thousands of compute nodes.
From SysOp 16 Mar > A Sun engineer shows you how to remap instead of reinstalling in this tech tip. In OpenSolaris build 106, you can use the device_remap Perl script to manage I/O topology changes that occur due to CPU chip failures in multi-node sun4v platforms.
From SysOp 13 Mar > MySQL Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System talks about sharing NFS and iSCSI file systems with MySQL database servers deployed on Sun SPARC and x86 servers, running the Solaris OS or RHEL 5.2. (Sun BluePrints article -- login required.)
From SysOp 12 Mar > Sun is integrating SSDs across the Systems portfolio: Blades, CMT, x64 servers, etc. For more info on improving power and space efficiencies with Sun SSDs, see the Sun Flash Storage page. Or watch a video on the benefits of SSDs on the Tech Resources page.
From SysOp 11 Mar > Videos on Solaris Cluster 3.2 1/09 cover topics such as agents, optional fencing and optional dedicated partitions, exclusive IP in Solaris Containers, RAC in Zones, and quorum monitoring.
From SysOp 10 Mar > If you know of an interesting upcoming event, add it to our Community Events Calendar on the BigAdmin wiki.
From SysOp 09 Mar > A Sun BluePrints article, An Economic Approach to Maximizing Data Availability, looks at the RAS features of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.
From SysOp 06 Mar > Here's a new SunSolve doc., SPARC: Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Upgrade From Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 05/08 (or Later Solaris Releases).
From SysOp 05 Mar > Sun took 496,000 square feet of Colorado datacenter space and collapsed it to 126,000. Take a tour and see how it was done.
From SysOp 04 Mar > The Solaris Crash Analysis Tool (CAT) 5.1 is available for download. For more details on this release, see the SolarisCAT blog.
From SysOp 03 Mar > New from Sun BluePrints: Using Sun Systems to Build a Virtual and Dynamic Infrastructure, Addressing Systemic Qualities in SAMP Architectures, and Optimizing MySQL Database Application Performance with Solaris Dynamic Tracing.
From SysOp 02 Mar > Best practices from Sun BluePrints: Configuring Sun Storage 7000 Systems for Oracle Databases, Improving MySQL Database Scalability, and High Availability MySQL Database Replication with Solaris Zone Cluster. (Registration required.)
 
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