FISL 10 pictures at
Day 1
FISL10 Day1 Part 1
FISL10 Day1 Part 2
FISL10 Day 1 Churrasco Dinner
Day 2
FISL 10 Day 2
FISL 10 Day 2 Cachaca Tasting
FISL 10 Day 3
FISL 10 Day 3 - Lunch
FISL Day 4
Will be coming out shortly
27 Jun · Sat 2009
25 Jun · Thu 2009
High Availability and Virtualization at FISL 10
I am going to give a talk on High Availability and Virtualization technologies on OpenSolaris at FISL. Come and attend my talk on the 26th of June at 12:00 noon at the 41A auditorium at FISL. More information at http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/10/papers/pub/programacao/373
17 Jun · Wed 2009
High Availability: Today and Tomorrow
The First Open HA Cluster summit was held in 31st May 2009 in San Francisco. Here is a video of the panel discussion titled "High Availability: Today and Tomorrow".
All slides can be found at http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/Open+HA+Cluster+Summit+May+2009
12 Jun · Fri 2009
Open High Availability Cluster 2009.06 got released. It is a supported release on OpenSolaris 2009.06. It runs on Intel/AMD hardware (x86) and on SPARC systems. My contribution to the project was to bring up Cluster on SPARC platform. Here is a video on this new version of Solaris Cluster.
28 May · Thu 2009
Getting Started with Open HA Clusters @ the OHAC summit
I have not blogged for a long time, had been real busy. One of the things keeping me busy was the Open HA Cluster Summit to be held on the 31st of May in San Francisco. I will be delivering a talk on Open HA Cluster community and how to participate in it. See you all at the summit. You will find my slides here after the talk.
Please register for the Summit at
http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/Open+HA+Cluster+Summit+May+2009
10 Apr · Fri 2009
Invitation to Students to attend Open HA Cluster Summit '09
Make High Availability Work For You
TO: University students and Advanced High School students
You are invited to participate in the first OpenSolaris Summit for Open HA Cluster.
Open HA Cluster Summit
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
San Francisco Marriott (Next to Moscone Convention Center)
55 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 USA
Join us as we explore the latest trends of High Availability
Cluster technologies, as well as key insights from HA Clusters
community members, technologists, and users of High Availability and
Business Continuity software. Learn how
to increase the availability of your favorite applications from blogs
to enterprise level infrastructure. You will
have the unique opportunity to hear one of the featured guest speakers,
Dr. David Cheriton, industry expert and professor at Stanford
University.
It will be a full day of speakers, panel
discussions, technical tracks, food and prizes. The first 10 students
to arrive at the conference, bright and early at 8:45 a.m., will be
able to participate in a drawing for a nano-iPod.
Later at the evening reception we will be giving away a Toshiba
Portege laptop. The
event is free.
SPEAKER BIO
Dr. David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford
University. He heads the Distributed Systems Group, which is the
research group in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University. He co-founded Granite Systems and
Kealia with Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun co-founder). He was instrumental in
helping Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page fund Google. In
his "spare time", Dr. Cheriton is Chief Scientist at Arista Networks
and serves on the board of Aster Data Systems.
*Eligibility for drawings:
You must be registered to win, have a valid, current student ID card, 18 years or older, and a U.S. citizen or legal resident. Other terms and conditions apply.
You must be registered to win, have a valid, current student ID card, 18 years or older, and a U.S. citizen or legal resident. Other terms and conditions apply.
Save the Date and Register for the Summit today! Questions about the event or registration? Send Email to: ha-cluster-summit@opensolaris.org Community Members and Non Students refer to http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=97809&tstart=15
Posted by Tirthankar
@ 10:16 PM IST
10 Feb · Tue 2009
I was invited to Mukti 2009 last weekend for talking on Sun Open Source technologies I reached Durgapur early in the morning after sleeping for one hour the previous night due to a flight delay. I was supposed to talk on Sun SPOT, OpenSolaris and OHAC.
The first talk was on Sun SPOT and it got delayed for about half an hour. I had some fun in making the laptop work with the projector and for a change this time the projector refused to work with Vista but worked flawlessly with OpenSolaris 2008.11. Now that was a real surprise. If you are wondering why Vista, that is because I didn't have the Sun SPOT manager for OpenSolaris and hence had to demo using Windows. The SunSpot talk was attended by about 80 to 100 people. They really enjoyed the SunSpot talk and many of them wanted to try it out. Alas, its not sold in India but I pointed to NIT Durgapur Sun CA Abhishek who has a kit.
My next talk was on OpenSolaris and what makes it interesting. Most of the talk material was provided by Roman Strobl. Since I was running short of time, I didn't do any of the demos. Instead I showed them a video made by Roman about the new features of OpenSolaris. I guess the most interesting feature was Time Slider. Hopefully some of them will try experimenting with OpenSolaris.
I had to drop the OHAC talk as I had run out of time.
You can see the pictures here.
Posted by Tirthankar
@ 03:58 AM IST
31 Jan · Sat 2009
CFF 2008 Project Proposal Evaluation has completed
The CFF 2008 project proposal evaluation has completed. We have evaluated all the proposals and sent mails individually to the project teams. Email has been sent only to the primary email id.
If you have submitted and evaluation and still did not hear from us, please mail codeforfreedom@sun.com with the following information
1. Primary email id
2. Project Name
Most of the proposals have been either Accepted, Rejected or marked as Duplicate.
Some of the proposals are in Pending state where the evaluator has asked for missing information from the participant. If you happen to get such an email, respond immediately to the evaluator with the missing information. If we do not get this information within 2nd Feb 2009, we will be rejecting the proposal.
Please refer to
http://groups.google.com/
No modifications to the team will be allowed any more. i.e You can not change the team members any more. Hence please don't send any such requests.
Wishing you all best of luck for the final round of CFF 2008
Thanks,
CFF 2008 Team
http://in.sun.com/communities/
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resources.
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This message can be read at
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Posted by Tirthankar
@ 10:45 PM IST
In todays BOJUG meet Satish gave a presentation on Framemaker.
Getting your feet wet with Freemarker (http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/)** - Sathish Kumar, Senior Engineer & Consultant, STARMARK
- Basics of Template Engines" -Where to use it and where we should not ?
- How Freemarker is used in "Struts 2" applications?
Pics are at
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=85449&l=13332&id=583231662
Posted by Tirthankar
@ 07:16 PM IST
28 Jan · Wed 2009
Solaris Cluster 3.2U2 got released yesterday. This release contains the zone cluster feature. Thus one can make clusters made up of zones. Now isn't it really cool. Well I find it even cooler since I have been working on zone cluster project 
Top New and Enhanced Features
1. Virtualization
Solaris Cluster includes extended Solaris Container support for applications such as Oracle RAC databases enabling highly available consolidated services at lower cost.
- Solaris Container Cluster: Allows the creation of fully isolated virtual clusters based on Solaris Container virtual nodes. Distributed applications such as Oracle RAC databases and in the near future solutions such as MySQL can be run in separate virtual clusters. Multiple databases or database version can be consolidated into one physical cluster for highly available consolidated service.
2. High Availability
Solaris Cluster is enabling increased High Availability levels through more monitoring capabilities and improved configuration verification tools.
- Quorum Monitoring: Provides continuous monitoring of all types of quorum devices including quorum server and sends notifications about failures, enabling proactive maintenance.
- Configuration Checker: Checks for vulnerable cluster configurations regularly and rapidly, limiting failures due to mis-configuration throughout the life-time of the cluster
3. Flexibility and Ease of Use
Solaris Cluster is improving flexibility and ease of use and support more configurations.
- Optional Fencing: Fine-grained control of the usage of fencing enables use of shared storage by systems outside the cluster and inclusion of new storage with limited or no support of SCSI based fencing.
- Software Quorum: Disks that do not support SCSI reservation can be used as quorum disks thanks to a new quorum device protocol.
- Optional dedicated partition: a lofi device can be used on Solaris 10 for the Solaris Cluster global-devices namespace as an alternative to a dedicated partition.
- Exclusive IP in Solaris Container: supported with Solaris Cluster HA agents.
- Oracle Data Guard: supported with Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition.
- IPsec: supported on the cluster interconnect.
- Sun StorageTek Availability Suite: supported in Solaris Container with Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition.
4. New supported applications and agent features
Solaris Cluster is supporting even more applications such as Informix IDS and applications versions out-of-the-box to facilitate integration and deployment.'
Read and view more about the announcement here
25 Jan · Sun 2009
On 16th Jan 2009, the second OHAC bug fix, contributed by Lalith Suresh, student and Sun Campus Ambassador from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, went into the OHAC gate. I was the sponsor for this bug.
I first met Lalith in the CA induction program in Bangalore and later on came to know that he was very interested in OHAC. As a part of the induction program he had given a talk on clustering and he is also working on HA-Cron and HA-Zabbix agents for OHAC.
Sponsor Request for CR 4616225
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88084
Code Review for CR 4616225
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88750
Read about the first OHAC Bug Fix here.
21 Dec · Sun 2008
Vaibhab talking on JavaFx 1.0
BOJUG meet was held on the 20th of December 2008 at Divyasree Chambers. Recently JavaFx 1.0 got released and we decided to dedicate this months meet to JavaFx. Vaibhav gave a lovely talk on the features of JavaFx and also pointed out some limitations.
Pizza Magic
Subrato and Vaibhav - Quiz Masters
Abhishek giving away the prizes
After his talk we had some Pizza's which was followed by a small quiz on JavaFx. Winners got key chains and pens.
Fourty three people showed up for the meet. This was probably the largest meet for BOJUG. Was it the effect or was it magic ?
You can download JavaFx SDK from http://www.javafx.com/
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