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September 2008
From SysOp 30 Sep > Ever wonder whether deleted files are still using up file system space? This community-submitted tech tip shows how to tell whether those files are being held open in UFS file systems.
From SysOp 29 Sep > The BigAdmin wiki has links to helpful Sun Cluster and Sun Cluster Geographic Edition documents, such as a quick reference guide for frequently used adminstrative commands.
From SysOp 26 Sep > This community-submitted tech tip shows how to find large directories and files that are taking up space in a file system. Put on your snoop hat and try out these commands.
From SysOp 25 Sep > A community-submitted tech tip gives steps for mirroring root with Solaris Volume Manager (for Solaris 9 or 10).
From SysOp 24 Sep > Check out this blog: around the world...Technology for Sun Partners. Useful stuff like an intro to ZFS Pools. Part 1: Pool Creation, Export, and Import. Part 2: Mirrors, Disk Failures and Spare Disks. And Part 3: RAIDZ2, scrubbing and resilvering.
From SysOp 23 Sep > Are you installing Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on OpenSolaris? Here are a few steps needed so that Web Server will adopt the Java 6 SE Platform runtime.
From SysOp 22 Sep > What's New with Solaris 10 10/08: Check out the video and FAQ. With this upcoming new release, systems running Solaris 10 can boot from ZFS and use ZFS as their root file system.
From SysOp 19 Sep > Second Life Chat on OpenSSO (Sept. 30, 8 am PT): Meet Mr. Winky, the IdentiCat. Register now for a reminder email.
From SysOp 18 Sep > A Sun BluePrints document, Using Solaris Cluster and Sun Cluster Geographic Edition with Virtualization Technologies, looks at the pros and cons of different virtualization options.
From SysOp 17 Sep > The Managed Desktop Factory: Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software as a Service is a new Sun BluePrints doc. It describes an architecture for delivering applications and desktop environments to clients using a server-based computing model.
From SysOp 16 Sep > More good info on the BigAdmin Multilingual hub: an article in Japanese on QA for Solaris Containers.
From SysOp 12 Sep > Coming September 15th: Solaris Immersive Campus on Second Life. Hang out and chat with Solaris experts.
From SysOp 11 Sep > Software Freedom Day will be held in many different locations worldwide. Find out how you can participate.
From SysOp 10 Sep > A Sun BluePrints article discusses the Sun xVM hypervisor architecture. This approach to virtualization for x86 and x64 systems lets you run multiple disparate operating systems and applications on a single server.
From SysOp 09 Sep > Read the Adaptive Security blog (from Sun's Global System Engineering Security Team) about the future of IT security. Adaptive security offers a long-term vision for how IT systems will be designed, implemented and managed in the future.
From SysOp 08 Sep > The Solaris Crash Analysis Tool 5.0 provides a friendly environment for quickly analyzing Solaris system crash dumps. Now supports Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.
From SysOp 05 Sep > Find out whether Sun certification has a positive impact on the performance of sys admins and developers. Tune into this IDC webcast.
From SysOp 04 Sep > Checkout this tutorial on Creating and configuring a MySQL DataSource in the GlassFish Application Server.*
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From SysOp 02 Sep > The BigAdmin Wiki is one year old. Use it when you want to post content immediately, or comment on other sys admin content. You can earn the same number of BigAdmin Bucks as when you submit to the BigAdmin web site.
 
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