Sunny thoughts on becoming part of Oracle, and on the Sun's in a different, and electrifying context.[Read More]
Tuesday Feb 09, 2010
Thursday Jan 21, 2010
A new version of Logical Domains has been released, with new functionality for resource management and domain migration.[Read More]
Sunday Dec 06, 2009
Deduplication is now available in ZFS in the latest OpenSolaris build! Have a look at early experience with this exciting new feature.[Read More]
Sunday Nov 08, 2009
An exercise with resource management using Logical Domains and Solaris Containers, illustrating how these technologies interact, and how resource management looks when dedicated CPUs are used with Containers. [Read More]
Friday Oct 02, 2009
The Hercules open-source mainframe emulator had lead to a commercial mainframe offering? What does this mean - can it be successful?[Read More]
Friday Sep 25, 2009
Flash Archive is a really handy Solaris feature for cloning Solaris systems. Unfortunately, until recently it didn't work with Solaris 10 systems that leveraged
ZFS boot - but now it's available. Here's my experience making use of this.[Read More]
Sunday Aug 30, 2009
Jeff made a big move from the east coast to the Southwest, and has gone through his first summer in the desert. You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but can you take the Brooklyn out of the boy?[Read More]
Wednesday Jul 01, 2009
VirtualBox 3.0 introduces support for multiprocessor virtual machines. This is an exciting development! Some thoughts on when to apply this, and recommendations for how to use it with optimal performance.[Read More]
Monday May 11, 2009
A mystery in which a user can create directories and files on ZFS, but cannot remove them! [Read More]
Sunday Mar 29, 2009
Today I'm making "pointed comments" - with real points and edges! - on a completely different topic, with a reflection on learning new things while retaining old ones.[Read More]
Sunday Feb 22, 2009
DTrace is one of the really powerful features of Solaris, providing fantastic observability into application and system behavior. Here, an example of using DTrace to provide instrumentation data into an emulator program I occasionally use.[Read More]
Monday Feb 16, 2009
Work has continued on "sirius" prototype port of OpenSolaris in the last few months. Here's some news on how the project is going, and experiences with the code.[Read More]
Friday Oct 17, 2008
The initial version of OpenSolaris on z (also called "sirius") is now "out in the open" - there's a bit of buzz about it. I've been involved with this project for several years, and now it's something we can talk about.[Read More]
Wednesday Sep 24, 2008
A different topic, for once. This month marks the end of an era, with the passing of financial giants like Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. Some personal thoughts from a Merrill Alumnus[Read More]
Friday Sep 19, 2008
IBM made an announcement that made invidious and inaccurate comparisons to our products. I blogged about why it was misleading. Other people blogged about my blog and said things that were even more misleading. Read my response here.[Read More]
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