Immerse yourself in Solaris Solaris Campus

Pro OpenSolaris Author Chat with Harry Foxwell

Thursday, July 9th
9-10am SLT/PT
(Second Life Time is the same as Pacific Time)

Location: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

Pro OpenSolaris was written to demonstrate that you can host your open source applications and solutions on OpenSolaris, taking advantage of its advanced features such as containers and other forms of virtualization, the ZFS file system, and DTrace. Spend an hour with author Harry Foxwell and learn more about the latest release - OpenSolaris 2009.06, and features such as Crossbow.

Harry Foxwell is a system engineer for Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., specializing in operating system support (Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux). He is also an adjunct professor of computer science at George Mason University, where he has taught, among other classes, operating system courses based on OpenSolaris. He has also written several book reviews for ACM’s Computing Reviews.

With George Trujillo (Ty Valdez) Tuesday, May 5th at 9-10am PDT

Demystifying MySQL for Solaris Administrators

George Trujillo (Ty Valdez) and Steve Jones will be presenting a Demystifying MySQL for Solaris Administrators on May 5th, 2009 in Second Life.  This presentation is a very detailed technical presentation designed for experienced Unix/Linux administrators to understand installation, configuration and management of MySQL on Solaris platforms.  MySQL best practices along with Solaris features that can leverage database management such as ZFS will be included.  Topics will include:

• Strategies for laying out database servers on Solaris (Unix/Linux) platforms.
• Understanding the MySQL architecture. 
  
• Installing MySQL using MOCA (GOCA) for best practices.
• Starting and stopping the MySQL database server.
• Top ten things to configure after creating a MySQL database server.
• Using MySQL with ZFS.
• Managing MySQL on a Solaris platform.

Location: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

George Trujillo is a DBA with expertise in MySQL - read his blog here. 

Come listen to Sun Learning Services contractor Michael Ernest (SecondLife: Siddhu Jinx) of Inkling Research, Inc. speak about Solaris DTrace: Friday, April 3rd at 9am SLT

Michael's upcoming book The Book on DTrace will be released later this year. Michael has been teaching the Advanced Solaris System Administration, Java Programming and Performance Management classes at Sun for over fifteen years and is the resident authority on Solaris DTrace, a diagnostic tool used in the Solaris Operating System. Michael also co-authored The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide with Simon Roberts.

Location: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22 

See you there!

 

 

UPDATE: Here is the presentation that took place during the event.  

 

Expert Chat on February 24, 2009 at 9am PT /SLT with Sun's Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Glenn will speak at the Sun Solaris Campus about the top 5 Solaris Security features and have a Q&A sessions. See his blog entry for details.

Location: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

Glenn Brunette is a Sun Distinguished Engineer with over 15 years experience in information security. Glenn currently works in Sun's Global Sales and Service CTO as the Director and Chief Architect of the GSS Security Office. In this role, Glenn is responsible for global security strategy and architecture, security-focused collaboration and knowledge sharing as well as improving the quality and security of products and services delivered to Sun's customers.

We hope to see you there!

UPDATE: Here is the presentation from this event:

Hi Solaris Campus avatars!

Congratulations to the 14 winners of the scavenger hunt! They will all receive a book of their choice as a prize for completing the challenge. Although the prizes have been claimed, you can still play the game and have fun finding clues that lead to other clues around the Sun Islands in Second Life.

Please feel free to suggest other activities you would like to see around our Solaris Campus in Second Life.

See you in SL... 

The Author Chat today with Darryl Gove was great! What made it great? The people and expertise! We had about 10-12 folks attend the session but the questions/answers/discussion after Darryl's presentation really made it a great event.

I see these author chats as great opportunities to participate and share knowledge - I saw that today and it was great! We had some Second Life voice issues but that was ok - we powered through them, relied on text chat when voice went down and then picked up voice when it came back.

All in all, I think it was a good event - thanks to Darryl for participating and sharing! If you missed the event, here are the slides and transcript from Darryl's blog.

Slides | Transcript

Join us at the Solaris Campus as Darryl Grove, the author of the recent SMI Press book entitled Solaris Application Programming, will  discuss developing multi-threaded/parallel applications on Solaris. CMT = Chip Multi-Threading.

When: October 28, 2008 - 9am PT (SLT)
Location: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

Here is more information about Darryl:

Darryl's Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/d/
Darryl's current Book: http://www.sun.com/books/catalog/solaris_app_programming.xml

Hope to see you there!

Christy (SL: Violet Portola)

Sun employees with Solaris expertise will be at the campus on specific days at specific times for you to chat with, ask questions and learn more about Solaris. The full schedule is at the Solaris Campus and on the Solaris Campus Google Calendar.

We will be adding more days/times as needed.

Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

Have fun, share and learn!

Here are the slides from the Collier Computing workshop at the Solaris Campus launch today! We'll post more later!

Christy (SL: Violet Portola) 

New to Solaris 10? Considering Solaris 10 because it has an efficient and effective file system? Come slide into the zpool and learn! Check out the other resources on ZFS near the slide and look for upcoming chats by Sun ZFS experts.  

Join us for the launch of Solaris Campus in Second Life: an experimental learning environment and community created by Sun Learning Service to make learning about Solaris immersive, easy, and fun!

If you're a Solaris sysadmin, IT manager, developer, or prospective Solaris user, Solaris Campus is a resource purpose-made to take the "heads-down" pain out of coming up to speed on Solaris 10 10/8 Update and crank up your learning-curve. Accessible globally from your desktop, the Campus will connect you with a community of supportive peers and Sun Learning Servicex staffers, and offer unique opportunities to meet and interact with Sun experts, trained instructors, and others in the know.

Where: Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life (SLURL) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

When: 9:30 AM Pacific, Friday, October 10, 2008

What: Meet Sun-certified Solaris 10 instructor Stephen Mohr (Sidifen Yiyuan) of Collier Computing and learn all about Solaris 10 10/08 Update new features. Stephen will discuss expanded ZFS file-system support, improved container functionality, logical domains, improved Xen 'guest OS' support, and more!

Stay to network with peers and Sun Learning Services Solaris Campus staff, participate in games and other activities, and let us know what you need to learn to make your work with Solaris easier, faster and more successful!

Fantastic - our first winner!

We haven't even launched the Solaris Campus area in Second Life and we already have one winner for the scavenger hunt (there will be more prizes): Hugo Wilkinson (SL name: Hugos Luminos), a Solaris enthusiast from the UK. We are giving him a free Sun Microsystems Press book of his choice (a real life book).

We hope Hugo and others will stick around the Solaris Campus as we begin to build this community of Solaris users which will allow us all to learn from one another and participate in learning Solaris.

Second Life URL (SLURL) to the Solaris Campus:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/32/231/22

Who doesn't like a little mystery, a little puzzle to put together? What if you could have fun with your peers (or individually for that matter) as you find out what's new in the Solaris 10 10/08 Update as you participate in a little adventure around the Sun islands in Second Life?

1. You find a server at the welcome area of the Solaris Campus in Second Life.
   
   
2. That mysterious object gives you a clue to where another similar object is hidden, it is some term related to the new Solaris update.
   
3. You will get intrigued and start hunting around the Sun buildings in Second Life looking for objects that will lead to other objects with more clues in order to be opened, each giving you a piece of the puzzle surrounding the new update. 
4. You will think you are on the right track only to find out some clues lie in a shipwreck, well you dive in to find the last piece... and suddenly, all pieces come together... you know what Soalris 10 10/08 is all about. 

Maybe you don't like doing quests alone, they can be dangerous or too challenging, maybe you just like to work collaboratively with others you just met at the Solaris Campus.

Join our scavenger hunt on October 10, 2008 right after the instructor-led session with Sun-certified instructors and try to solve all pieces of this puzzle for real life prizes (if you dare to complete the challenge).  

Have fun learning!

The Solaris Campus team invites everyone interested in learning about "What's New in Solaris 10 10/08 Update" to participate in a Second Life workshop moderated by the Collier Computing group (Sun-certified instructors) on October 10, 2008 at 9:30am PT/SLT.

Besides having an opportunity to discuss the new features with other Solaris users you will also have a chance to win prizes as you participate of a scavenger hunt about these new features, exploring the Sun in Second Life facilities.

Come have fun as you learn what's new in Solaris 10 10/08 Update.

When: October 10, 2008 at 9:30 am United States Pacific Time (Second Life Time/SLT).
Where: Solaris Campus in Second Life (search for Places > Sun Microsystems Pavillion > there will be signs and teleport pads)

How do you get access to Second Life? You can create an account for free at www.secondlife.com

Be sure to create your avatar, download the Second Life Client software and get ready to learn! You can find the Sun Microsystems campus by going to Search > Places > Sun Microsystems. Also, be sure to join the Sun Microsystems News group in Second Life to be an on-going part of the Sun community and learn more about what is happening with the Solaris Campus and other Sun immersive learning projects.

Other live events, including Solaris Office Hours by Sun employees who are Solaris experts, are viewable from the Solaris Campus in Second Life as well as via this Solaris Campus Google Calendar.

Hope to see you there!

Christy
(SL: Violet Portola)
Sun Digital Libraries & Research

What comes to your mind when you think of a "campus"? Brick walls from centuries past? Glass and steel buildings that try to mimic corporate environments? Well, that is not what the Solaris Campus team envisioned for this space in Second Life, the widely acclaimed Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE). 

The informal learning space will launch on October 10, 2008 in Sun's public SIM so everyone has a chance to come meet other Solaris enthusiasts, exchange experiences, and learn more about Solaris by participating in scavenger hunts, chats with Solaris experts, and others in an informal social environment. What better place to have a "campus" than a relaxing beach? Come be a part of the Solaris Campus experience in Second Life, you are the experience!