Wednesday Dec 12, 2007

Continuing to expand its horizons, Solaris is moving in new directions. Via Project Pulsar, Sun is porting an OpenSolaris kernel to the PowerPC architecture and additionally, is beginning development on moving Solaris to an embedded operating system, also on PowerPC.

Principal Investigator in Sun Labs on the Pulsar Project, Tom Riddle, joins Hal Stern, Vice President of Global Systems Engineering, for this latest edition of Innovating@Sun. Here, Stern and Riddle discuss:

  • Why Solaris is a great fit with PowerPC
  • The attraction and challenges of the PowerPC market
  • Reactions and interest from the community at large
  • Expansion opportunities for customers on x86 architectures
  • Sun Labs' priorities around Solaris and PowerPC
  • How the community can contribute

    Links:



    PowerPC-Dev Project



    • Posted at 12:52PM Dec 12, 2007 by Laura Ventura in Sun   [permalink]    

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    Monday Dec 03, 2007

    A bit of old school OS theory, combined with virtualization technology, comes together to create a robust migration plan for Solaris 8 customers looking to move to Solaris 10. With an eye toward protecting customers' technology investment as well providing a path of migration, the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant offers innovative technology to help customers along this path. Vice President of Global Systems Engineering, Hal Stern, welcomes two guests to this newest edition of Innovating@Sun. Joost Pronk, product manager for virtualization in the Solaris group and Dan Price, staff engineer and lead on the containers project in the Solaris kernel group join Hal to discuss:

  • How the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant allows users to run Solaris 8 environments on machines running Solaris 10
  • The moving of applications, settings and configuration files with less risk
  • Why someone would want to migrate an entire OS environment from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10
  • Handling custom software development
  • What happens once you install the virtual image environment into a container
  • Balancing virtualization with security
  • Brand Z and altering the behavior of containers
  • Going beyond environment migration to finding economies of scale by compressing multiple containers into the same global zone
  • Where you would not use Solaris 8 migration
  • Taking advantage of Solaris 10 features

    Links:



    Transcript
    Solaris 8 Migration Assistant information
    Dan Price Blog on Solaris 8 Migration Assistant
    Solaris Learning Center



    • Posted at 01:50PM Dec 03, 2007 by Laura Ventura in Sun   [permalink]    

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