Tech Article: How to Evaluate Oracle Solaris 11 from Inside VirtualBox
How to import an Oracle Solaris 11 image into VirtualBox, how to configure the virtual machine settings, and how to explore the interesting features of Oracle Solaris 11 from within VirtualBox. Covers...
View ArticleVideo Interview: Why Oracle Did Not Provide a Direct Upgrade Path to Oracle...
Bart Smalders, from the Oracle Solaris core engineering team, explains why they decided not to provide a direct upgrade path from Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11, and the best way for a data...
View ArticleBlog: Miss Moneypenny and the Oracle Solaris 11 Provisioning Assistant
Oracle Solaris 10 has just released a nifty tool called Oracle Solaris 11 Provisioning Assistant. It lets you run the automated installer from Oracle Solaris 11 on a Solaris 10 system. That means you...
View ArticleVideo Interview: The Fine-Grained Security Controls In Oracle Solaris 11
Alex Barclay talks security with Darren Moffat and Casper Dik, two security pros on the Oracle Solaris engineering team. They cover the fine-grained security controls that make Solaris so well-suited...
View ArticleVideo Interview: Aspirin for the Sysadmin - How Oracle Solaris 11 Alleviates...
Isaac Rozenfeld explains in depth how Oracle Solaris 11 alleviates three of the most pressing pain points for sysadmins: rising costs of managing deployed systems, taking advantage of new features, and...
View ArticleVideo Interview: An Engineer's Perspective - Why the OS Is Still Relevant
Sysadmins are handling hundreds or perhaps thousands of VM's. What is it about Solaris that makes it such a good platform for managing those VM's? Liane Praza, senior engineer in the Solaris core...
View ArticleVideo Interview: What Forsythe Corp Has Been Helping Customers Do With Oracle...
Lee Diamante, Solutions Architect for Forsythe Corp, an Oracle Solaris Partner, explains why Forsythe has been recommending Oracle Solaris to its customers, and what those customers have been doing...
View ArticleBlog: The Sysadmin as CEO
Bjoern Rost began his professional life as a sysadmin and became the CEO of his own consulting company. Oracle recently announced his appointment to Oracle ACE Director. Here's more information about...
View ArticleTech Article: How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution with Oracle Solaris 11.1
Have you ever wanted to build a cloud just to see if you can? Turns out it's not that difficult. Install Oracle Solaris 11.1 on your laptop via VirtualBox, set up a little ZFS storage, a little access...
View ArticleBlog: Should I Disable RPC Devices to Increase Security in Oracle Solaris?
Recently someone asked Alex Barclay what Oracle's official position was regarding disabling RPC devices to increase security on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11. Here's his answer
View ArticleTech Article: How to Set Up a MongoDB NoSQL Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones
MongoDB is a NoSQL open source document-oriented database that stores structured data as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Great for agile development because you can quickly modify the database...
View ArticleTech Article: Understanding and Using Trusted Extensions in Oracle Solaris 11
Trusted Extensions allows you to create a multilevel (labeled) security environment in which users with different access permissions can work simultaneously with data that has different access...
View ArticleTech Article: Exploring Installation Options and User Roles in Oracle Solaris 11
Oracle ACE Alexandre Borges walks through the installation options and user roles in Oracle Solaris 11. Part One of his familiarization story with Oracle Solaris 11.
View ArticleBlog: Understanding Process Scheduling in Oracle Solaris
The process scheduler allocates CPU's and CPU threads to kernel processes. By using process classes, you can define different policies for different sets of processes. These three resources will show...
View ArticleBlog: How to Limit Upgrades Beyond a Prescribed Version of Oracle Solaris 11
How to control Oracle Solaris 11 system upgrade so that a system cannot be upgraded beyond a prescribed version, even though the package publisher provides newer versions.
View ArticleLife Could Be A Dream (Hadoop Hadoop) (OTN Garage)
A technical article, a blog, and a video interview to explain why Oracle Solaris is a great platform for Hadoop, hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang
View ArticleTech Article: Performance Analysis in a Multitenant Cloud Environment
Performance analysis in a virtualized multitenant cloud environment is difficult because of the abstraction layers. How do you find the physical system resources that are overloaded? Orgad Kimchi...
View ArticleExploring Networking, Services, and the New Image Packaging System in Oracle...
Oracle ACE Alexandre Borges walk you through the parts of Oracle Solaris 11 that he finds most interesting compared to Oracle Solaris 10.
View ArticleLab: Deploying the Oracle Solaris Integrated Load Balancer in 60 Minutes
The Integrated Load Balancer in Oracle Solaris 11 intercepts incoming requests and redirects them to back-end servers based on your load-balancing rules. This lab was created to show system...
View ArticleHands-On Lab: Oracle Solaris for IBM AIX Users
Walks an AIX sysadmin through the basic administration of Oracle Solaris 11 and how it compares to IBM AIX Enterprise in areas including installation, software packaging, file systems, user management,...
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