Vol. 8 No. 3, April 2009 View Archive  |   Update Your Profile   BIGNEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS What's new in the BigAdmin web site, community, wiki, and blog. Once a month by email. » Phase 2 EOSL for Solaris 8 OS Has Arrived It's time to sign up for Solaris 8 Vintage Patch support if you want to continue running your applications on Solaris 8. More info on Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service » BigAdmin Newsletter Going Text-only in May Please note: This is planned as the last HTML edition, and future versions will be in text. » Updated: Restrictions for Using Solaris Live Upgrade Sun engineer Enda O'Connor has revised this article to provide the most up-to-date info. » Patching a Miniroot Image on the Solaris 10 OS Here's how to install the latest Kernel Update patch, using a SPARC or x86 miniroot image for the JumpStart installation program. » Updated Resource Centers for Sys Admins: Logical Domains (LDoms) Upgrading to Solaris 10 OS » Updated FAQ: Patching for the Solaris OS A new section covers issues with patching the Solaris 10 OS from Solaris 8 or 9. » Managing I/O Topology Changes Due to CPU Chip Failures in OpenSolaris The device_remap Perl script, included in OpenSolaris build 106, can manage I/O topology changes that occur due to CPU chip failures in multi-node sun4v platforms. TECHIE TOOLBOX The Techie Toolbox often features scripts and content submitted by members of the BigAdmin community and may not be appropriate for all organizations. » checkmessages_net This script checks the logs on the hosts, and if it finds anything wrong, the script sends email to the system administrator. » checkdisk_net The checkdisk_net, host02_checkdisk, and host03_checkdisk scripts check predictive disk failure on the hosts. » Change Passwords (Remote) This is another version of the passmass (expect) script, especially for systems where security is tight. » ifalias (nvalias) Use ifalias from a running instance of the Solaris OS (for example, right after JumpStart), and it creates nvalias entries in the OBP according to your interfaces in the path_to_inst. » Zone Swap Cap Utilization This script examines zones running on your host and reports the current swap utilization compared to the zone.max-swap resource cap set on the zone. SUN BLUEPRINTS ARTICLES To download Sun BluePrints documents, login or registration is required. » Energy Efficient Datacenters: Electrical Design Read about the electrical design principles that Sun has used in energy-efficient, pod-based datacenters worldwide. » Virtualizing Desktops With Sun Ray Software and VMWare View Manager This reference implementation for desktop virtualization deployments is designed to provide resilient, secure desktop environments. » Improving MySQL Database Scalability Find out how to configure MySQL databases to scale performance and use the chip multithreading (CMT) capabilities of Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers and the Solaris OS. » High Availability MySQL Database Replication With Solaris Zone Cluster Read about the benefit of deploying the master and slave databases of MySQL Replication using Zone Clusters. » MySQL Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System Sun's unified storage systems can share NFS and iSCSI file systems with MySQL database servers deployed on Sun SPARC and x86 servers, running the Solaris OS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2. » Zone Clusters - How to Deploy Virtual Clusters and Why This paper introduces the zone cluster, a virtual cluster in which a Solaris Zone is configured as a virtual node. The zone cluster supports the consolidation of multiple cluster applications on a single cluster. » Lustre File System - Demo Quick Start Guide This cookbook for non-Linux users shows how to set up a demo of the Linux-based Lustre file system (a scalable, secure, robust, and highly available cluster file system for large computing clusters). » Using RAID 6 for Increased Reliability and Performance This article describes the Sun RAID 6 solution for improved data reliability, with best practices for implementation. » Running MySQL Database in Solaris Containers This article, part of a series, describes the deployment of MySQL database in virtualized environments using Solaris Zones partitioning technology. COMMUNITY, BLOGS & WIKIS » Get BigAdmin Gifts for Sharing Your Experience Send us your scripts and tech tips, or submit useful links, and earn "Bucks" to use for a USB memory stick or other gifts. » Tech Tips From the BigAdmin Community: Installing and Configuring Logical Domains (LDoms) for the Solaris 10 OS on CMT Platforms Installing the Solaris 9 OS From a Flash Archive Dynamically » Community Contributions to BigAdmin Wiki: How to Change the Output of the uname Command in the Solaris OS Using ZFS and rsync to Create a Backup Solution With Versioning Errors Related to NICs on Solaris 10 05/08 and 10/08 Releases » OpenSolaris: Accessible Live CD Instructions Follow steps for booting to live mode and using the installer as well as notes on the wireless setup GUI. » Subscribe to the OpenSolaris Ignite Newsletter DEVELOPER CORNER Sun Studio Express 3/09 Available This is the official build used for the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Early Access Program. The EA build is available on Solaris, OpenSolaris, and the latest Linux distributions. Sun Studio Express - March 2009 README Podcast on SSX Release and Early Access Program Host Your Open Source Code With Project Kenai This cloud computing environment offers popular community collaboration tools, source code repositories (Mercurial and Subversion), and issue tracking (Jira and Bugzilla). Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application Learn how to use NetBeans 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude to create a web app in OpenSolaris 2008.11 without coding. Other Technical Resources From Sun Developer Network: Meet Masood Mortazavi, Part 2: Java DB, Project Models, and More GlassFish and MySQL, Part 4: Creating a RESTful Web Service and JavaFX Client A Java Developer's Quiz Profiling MPI Applications With Sun Studio Performance Tools Video: 15 Minutes or Less - JavaFX Sun Studio Webinar: Mastering Your Multicore System Using Sun Studio Seeding Cloud Computing: A Conversation With Java Champion Alan Williamson PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT » Update to Logical Domains for CoolThreads Servers LDoms provide built-in, no-cost virtual-machine capabilities for CMT servers. Version 1.1 extends capabilities, performance, and usability, to help you increase server utilization, lower costs, and consolidate workloads. » Solid State Drives Across Sun System Portfolio Sun is integrating SSDs in Sun Blades, CMT platforms, and x64 servers. Find out about potential power and space efficiencies. Video (on SSD Tech Resources page) » A Guide to Getting Started With Cloud Computing Sun's free guide explains the differences between public, private, and hybrid clouds. (Registration required.) More Cloud Computing info on BigAdmin blog » Video: Internet Archive and Sun Modular Datacenter Sun and the Internet Archive have built the Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter. This digital library preserves past versions of web sites, as well as content from TV, movies, music, and books. Internet Archive web site » Solaris Crash Analysis Tool (CAT) 5.1 This release is available for download. For more details, see the SolarisCAT blog. » Technical Articles in Chinese on Multilingual Hub Three Sun articles discuss the use of fonts (in simplified Chinese): Part 1: Category of Font by Look and Feel Part 2: Category of Font by Data Format Part 3: Font Size » Solaris 10 Applications for SPARC and x86/x64 Platforms Explore over 11,000 Solaris Ready business applications that are available. MOTD ROUNDUP Get more information about these and other MOTD items... » Community Tech Tip in Spanish: Desarrollo y Deploy de Web Services con Sun Java System Application Server 9. » 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. » Here's a SunSolve doc., SPARC: Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Upgrade From Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 05/08 (or Later Solaris Releases). » 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. HIGHLIGHTS » BigNews and Announcements » Techie Toolbox » Sun BluePrints Articles » Community, Blogs & Wikis » Developer Corner » Product Spotlight » Offers and Events » MOTD Round-Up OFFERS AND EVENTS » Try a Sun Product Free for 60 Days No cost, no risk. If you like it, you can buy it at 20-40% off. If not, return it; we pay for shipping both ways. (The video "Try and Buy Overview" gives more info.) » Sun Startup Essentials Program Rock-bottom prices on Sun systems and storage for start-ups. Available in many countries, including US, Canada, China, India, Israel, UK, France, Germany, and Sweden. » Earn College Credits for Sun Training With American Council on Education Training for Java and Solaris technologies can qualify for college credits with many ACE Cooperating Colleges and Universities. » Special Student Discount on Certifications Two all-inclusive packages can help you reach entry-level certification on Sun Solaris and Java technologies. Student price is US$40.00 or 95% off country list price (until June 30, 2009). » SunLabs Contest for JavaFX Developers First prize is $25,000, and there is a student category. Up to 100 honorable mention prizes with $25 Amazon Gift certificate. 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