Community Tech Tip: Bootable DVD or CD for Solaris 10 OS on x86 Platforms

A sys admin from the BigAdmin community posted this tech tip on our wiki. Here is one way to create a bootable DVD or CD for the Solaris 10 OS on x86 platforms, which you can then use for system recovery and bare-metal rebuilds.

Posted at 08:00AM Nov 04, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Driver/Device List Updated for Solaris 10 10/09 Release

Device drivers for the Solaris 10 10/09 update are now included in the BigAdmin Device Driver list, along with third-party devices that run on the Solaris 10 10/09 OS.

Posted at 08:00AM Nov 03, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[1]

DTrace Quick Start Guide: Observing Native and Web Applications in Production

A 36-page book shows you how to use DTrace to collect information about your system or application that you can use to improve performance. This guide provides sample DTrace scripts, for example, for AMP stack and Web 2.0 applications. Find a link to the PDF on the Sun wiki.

Posted at 08:00AM Nov 02, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Updated: Resources for Upgrading to the Solaris 10 OS

The BigAdmin Upgrade hub has lots of new info on how to move to the Solaris 10 OS. Find out why upgrading is a good idea, what you'll need to know, what to do with your legacy applications, and what resources are available.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 29, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Patching the Solaris OS Using Sun Ops Center 2.5

This article on BigAdmin describes methods to patch the Solaris OS using Sun Ops Center 2.5. Sun documentation experts explain how to use system catalogs, baseline analysis reports, black lists and white lists, and more.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 28, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Compatibility Between Solaris Releases Is Guaranteed

With the Solaris Application Guarantee Program, Sun maintains binary compatibility between OS releases. With the Solaris 10 OS, Sun guarantees source code compatibility between SPARC and x86 processors, so applications can run across platforms with a simple recompile.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 27, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Sessions on the Solaris OS at LISA'09

Check out the schedule of Solaris related activities at the 23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '09), Nov. 1-5, 2009.

Posted at 05:13PM Oct 26, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Updated for New Solaris Release: x86 Installation Check Tool

This tool on the BigAdmin HCL detects whether your x86 system is able to run the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool version 1.7 loads the Solaris 10 10/09 kernel.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 26, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Sun Studio Blogging Contest Winner

In his blog entry, Sandeep Koranne, one of our contest winners, describes how Sun Studio 12 compilers are used to engineer a complex, innovative discrete geometry algorithmic application.

Posted at 03:17PM Oct 20, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Want to Upgrade to the New Solaris 10 Release?

A blog entry by Bob Netherton, "What's New in Solaris 10 10/09," discusses new features in the Solaris 10 10/09 release and talks about improvements in the SVR4 package commands (for example, pkgadd, pkgrm, and pkginfo). Also, sun.com has good info on the Upgrade to Solaris 10 page, plus a list of new features in What's New in Solaris.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 20, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

HPC Profiling with the Sun Studio Performance Tools

Sun Microsystems' Marty Itzkowitz and Yukon Maruyama describe how to use the Sun Studio Performance Tools to understand the performance issues in single-threaded, multi-threaded, OpenMP, and MPI applications, and the techniques used to profile them. This paper was originally presented at the Third Parallel Tools Workshop held in Dresden, Germany in September.

Posted at 04:37PM Oct 16, 2009 by CW, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Questions About the Solaris 10 OS?

BigAdmin has gathered lots of good info, including the Solaris 10 Resource Collection and the Installation/Upgrade Resource Collection. These collections are built from Sun, third-party, and community submissions. And you can browse through the Solaris
Information Center, which links to Solaris 10 books, documentation, information on new features and installation, and more technical resources.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 16, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[4]

What's Not in the Solaris 10 10/09 OS?

The BigAdmin blog entry Features Removed from the Solaris 10 OS links to a list of obsolete features that are no longer supported in the new Solaris 10 10/09 update. See "Solaris EOF Announcements - Solaris 10 10/09 (U8)" on the Solaris Information Center.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 14, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Getting Started With the OpenSolaris OS

In this article, OpenSolaris expert Brian Leonard explains how to get started with the OpenSolaris operating system.

Posted at 10:15AM Oct 13, 2009 by CW, managing editor in OpenSolaris  |  Comments[0]

Tutorial: DTrace by Example

This tutorial uses DTrace, a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the Solaris 10 OS, to analyze several applications and shows how its use can improve performance.

Posted at 10:13AM Oct 13, 2009 by CW, managing editor in OpenSolaris  |  Comments[0]