The Vastness of Solaris
A presentation by a Sun collegue, Brad Beatles, was given entitled: "What's new in Solaris 10 11/06" last night at the Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group - DFWOSUG
This inagural meeting took place last night after last month's meeting was cancelled due to an ice storm.
I'm using Solaris and openSolaris heavily for my identity demonstration environments and used this opportunity to explore the new features in more detail.
The first slide caught my attention immediately. It simply said "The Vastness of Solaris". How true, I talked to Brad afterward to find out who coined that phrase, and he said he's not sure where the origin was, but he heard it from another Sun collegue. Anyone who explores the breadth of features in Solaris certainly understands that this phrase rings true.
The new features that really caught my eye were the new zone options.
These new featues will make the build process for some of the environments I maintain much easier and allow a level of automation they is truely impressive. The basic premise is to use a minimal global zone (built from jumpstart) with no software or special configuration installed. Then create a "master" zone with all the configuration you require, then clone that master zone and use the clone for everything. This way in the event of any changes, you can always test them prior to adopting them and "roll back" to a previous zone if necessary. This combined with the abilty to move a zone from one server to another and use ZFS storage is quite powerful. Brad's presentation will be posted to the Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group - DFWOSUG soon.
This inagural meeting took place last night after last month's meeting was cancelled due to an ice storm.
I'm using Solaris and openSolaris heavily for my identity demonstration environments and used this opportunity to explore the new features in more detail.
The first slide caught my attention immediately. It simply said "The Vastness of Solaris". How true, I talked to Brad afterward to find out who coined that phrase, and he said he's not sure where the origin was, but he heard it from another Sun collegue. Anyone who explores the breadth of features in Solaris certainly understands that this phrase rings true.
The new features that really caught my eye were the new zone options.
- "zone clone"
- rename
- move
These new featues will make the build process for some of the environments I maintain much easier and allow a level of automation they is truely impressive. The basic premise is to use a minimal global zone (built from jumpstart) with no software or special configuration installed. Then create a "master" zone with all the configuration you require, then clone that master zone and use the clone for everything. This way in the event of any changes, you can always test them prior to adopting them and "roll back" to a previous zone if necessary. This combined with the abilty to move a zone from one server to another and use ZFS storage is quite powerful. Brad's presentation will be posted to the Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group - DFWOSUG soon.