Friday August 08, 2008

Virtualising Sun Cluster, by Mike Ramchand

Mike Ramchand has published a blog article about deploying a clustered pair of virtual box containers on a Solaris host,

tags: technology "virtual box" virtualbox virtualisation virtualization cluster solaris

Monday November 19, 2007

It's that time again. Opensolaris users in London

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held this Wednesday,Nov 21st i.e. tomorrow at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. The agenda has been posted at their site, and is about HA Clustering. On another note, I don't expect to go to the December meeting as it's on my birthday, but it is due on 19th December, other details as normal.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Wednesday November 14, 2007

Look at what Google won't put in a press release

Last month, just before traveling to the West Coast, I practiced my latest presentation,"Six reasons to choose Solaris", in which I have a slide with some company logos of the users of Solaris 10. One of my audience asked why Google wasn't on the slide. I driveled on about their use of Solaris not being public and he pointed me at this job ad on their web site, for a Solaris trained systems administrator. It seems they're also using Oracle! Using Google to look for the obvious keywords, finds this google job ad for a Solaris/Oracle administrator, which isn't even on their site. Google uses Solaris is now a public domain fact.

I wonder how many of my "Six reasons" led to Google making this decision.

tags: google oracle solaris technology jobs innovation

Monday October 15, 2007

Open Solaris users in London on Wednesday

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  this Wednesday, Oct 17th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. The agenda has been posted at their site, and is about LDOMS. Once again, I have been unable to give people both a two week and two day notice of these meetings, and since two days notice would be tomorrow, I shan't bother as its too close to this notice to be useful.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday October 02, 2007

Slow cruise to Nevada

Despite having a very hectic week, I finally finished a Live Update on my Solaris partition and have enscripted it, so it shouldn't be so hard next time. I had to fix my zfs checkpointing routines as while I had turned it on to protect my work against stupidity, I wasn't deleting them. I have amended the Gnome startup scripts to invoke $HOME/.gnome.login and the .gnome.logout is also invoked appropriately, and .gnome.logout creates a snapshot. The main reason for doing this is that I am unsure that Gnome runs the login shells exit scripts, and not all shells have these. However my poor code also means that root won't start a JDS session any more. I am going to claim this as a security enhancement.

My interest and use of  ZFS and Live Update has all been inspired by Chris Gerhard who documents his ideas at The dot in ...---... Live Update is also a coming technology, so I think it's important for me to get to grips with it. 

I am now considering how to write a tcl/tk wrapper for my LU script as I am still a number of versions behind.This meant I still had to amend the grub menu.lst by hand and refresh the boot archive manually. (The latter requirement may have been caused by me, but now I know how easy it is to mount the shadow BE, I shan't leave it for so long again.) I must remember that the reboot command is probably best issued from a root failsafe session.

Tuesday September 18, 2007

Open Solaris tomorrow

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  tomorrow on Wednesday, Sept 19th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. Jon Haslam is talking.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Monday July 16, 2007

Open Solaris users in London on Wednesday

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  this Wednesday, July 18th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. The agenda has been posted at their site. Over the last couple of months I have tried to give people a two week and two day notice of these meetings but have failed this time, and since two days notice would be tomorrow, I shan't bother as its too close to this notice to be useful.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday June 19, 2007

Opensolaris in London tomorrow!

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  tomorrow on Wednesday, June 2st at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Thursday June 07, 2007

Opensolaris in London in June

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  in two weeks time on Wednesday, June 21st at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St. As ever, check out their page for full and final details.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday May 15, 2007

Opensolaris in London, tomorrow!

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  tomorrow on Wednesday, May 16th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Wednesday May 02, 2007

Opensolaris in London in May

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  in two weeks time on Wednesday, May 16th  at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Tuesday April 17, 2007

LOSUG

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Wednesday April 04, 2007

Gnome on Nevada

I thought you might like to see my Desktop. Its Opensolaris, Nevada, build 59, with Gnome 2.14.

 

tags: Technology  desktop  solaris  opensolaris gnome laptop 

Opensolaris in London

The next meeting of the London Open Solaris User Group (losug) is due to be held  in two weeks time on Wednesday, April 18th at Sun's Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House on Lower King William St.

tags: Technology solaris opensolaris user group losug

Monday April 02, 2007

Service Management Facility in S10

I promised I'd arrange for Jarod Nash'es slides on SMF, presented to the January meeting of the "London Solaris User Group"  to be posted in Sun's .com domain.

I have just posted them, finally, to the media caster. They are in .pdf. [ Jarod's SMF Slides... ]

This article was edited on the 5^th April when I uploaded the version without a privacy marking.

tags: Technology losug solaris smf opensolaris