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Glassfish 2.1 App Server and MySQL 5.1 AMI Pre and Post configurations[Read More]
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We will create a MySQL 5.1 and Glassfish 2.1 developer profile bundle, we will run both applications as non-root user. [Read More]
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As part of OVF support in new VirtualBox I participate on interesting behind the scene HW compatibility improvement, one of such thins is improved HW compatibility with VMware ESX and Vmware Workstation 5.x+ESX HW profiles
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Using Solaris iSCSI target in VirtualBox iSCSI Initiator[Read More]
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3. Fix HW difference between VMware and VirtualBox VM[Read More]
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Create VirtualBox VM definition based on VMware VM defintinons[Read More]
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Amazon EC2 OpenSolaris 200805-91 AMI Image with Glassfish V2 and MySQL 5.1 based on ami-89ef0be0 MySQL 5.1.x AMI image , origin is OpenSolaris 2008.05-91 ami-41e70328 image.
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Convert & Import VM Virtual Disk in VMDK format[Read More]
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4 Steps for importing VMware VM or Virtual Appliance into VirtualBox[Read More]
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How is VirtualBox 1.6.2 capable to handle VMware VMs & Virtual Appliances formats ?[Read More]
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This thread shows needed steps to import VMware Solaris based VMs into VirtualBox[Read More]
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Here I will try to summarize advanced tips with Sun xVM VirtualBox I learn personally or get from my colleagues[Read More]
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For creating of pre-build PUBLIC OpenSolaris AMIs I select Glassfish MySQL and WebStack? AMP bundles, they are very easy to deploy and configure so they are ideal for Virtual Appliances as PoC (Proof-of-Concept) software.
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In fact this an another example how composite image can be created, this time I will use IPS net based install from default OpenSolaris repository.
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Amazon EC2 is based on XEN hypervisor, AMI runs as DomU so any OS with XEN hypervisor implementation as popular Linux distributions, OpenSolaris Nevada and Indiana lines can be used for emulating Amazon EC2 environment for faster local development.
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Based on my previous Linux on Amazon AWS experience I define 5 optional Solaris ec2ify steps
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Based on my previous Linux Amazon on AWS experience I define 5 required Solaris ec2ify steps
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To get impression of ephemeral store behavior under OpenSolaris (UFS,ZFS) I use bonnie++, compiled from source with debug output. Pre-compiled binary can be get from [www.sunfreeware.com SunFreeware]
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New OpenSolaris 2008.05 utilize ZFS root and use ZFS clones for system updates with IPS net based repository, it's counts on ability of reboot OS instance into new environment. See if will survive reboot in Amazon EC2 ?!
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We need scrips to support specific features of Amazon AWS (EC2,S3), yes, we need ec2ify our Solaris instances.
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Amazon AWS represent Utility on demand , Pay as you go concepts, Amazon AWS is also known as Highly Scalable, developer oriented, Web Platform build on XEN hypervisor technology.
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Amazon APIs used network based protocols so they consumers are highly portable and are implemented in most popular programing languages as rich full libraries. classes or modules.
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In this type of AMI image use, I will send a control data in form of ZIP file to AMI on instance start which will download from S3 prepackaged and zipped application stack, this way we don't need to rebuild AMI and we can update it on boot time.
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Installation of Liferay Glassfish bundle DEMO is easy and is identical to install of empty Glassfish.
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Because in Amazon EC2 we can't update Kernel and Ramdisk plus OpenSolaris store ZFS pool configuration in Ramdisk in form of ZFS cache you will not be able at least for now to upload your images. You need to use our preprepared JeOS image by uninstall proceudre
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Get list of PKGs for OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS confguration , focusing on xVM or XEN para VM, so we can also skip all HW drivers, Hura !
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Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode, in simple 12 steps
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OpenSolaris 0508 (code name Indiana) is based on IPS and ZFS root. IPS as modern packaging system give use more freedom when creating JeOS. However this first OpenSolaris release is Desktop and GUI oriented system with Live CD based installation only, so we need to process needed CLI components selection manually.
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For creating of PUBLIC AMIs I select Glassfish bundles, they don't have absolutely latest version of Glassfish, but they are very easy to deploy and configure so they are ideal for Virtual Appliances as PoC (Proof-of-Concept) software.
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We will install this additional SW with optional packages form sunfreeware.com (Sol10x86 versions) [Read More]
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