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Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3

Oracle Sun Cluster 3.3 has been announced. Read Release Notes to get an idea of what has changed since the previous release.

Posted on September 8, 2010 at 4:26 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Solaris

Abrupt clock change in SC

Today is 828 days after SC on one of ours SF6900 servers was rebooted for the last time, meaning that it’s exactly 828 days of uptime. And it’s one of the contributing factor to be beaten by 6567546 bug. Another one is the SC’s version and if its less than 5.20.7 – you’re affected as […]

Posted on May 25, 2010 at 10:18 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

What’s new in OpenSolaris 2010.05

Came across an interesting link which proves that new OpenSolaris release is in the production pipeline. Update. The link has been promptly deleted. But it’s still available through Google’s Cache – Click here

Posted on May 19, 2010 at 5:41 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Solaris

Who is swapping?

Yeah, I know that this has been already posted in other blogs many times before but to keep it more close for my own eyes I’ll re-post it here anyway. So, the following two series of dcmds could help you to figure out what processes have occupied the swap by listing their PIDs or executed […]

Posted on May 17, 2010 at 11:58 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

D240 Disk’s story

Here is a story I’d like to share with your, my dear, reader. Couple days ago we finally found a remedy for a support case opened in Sun, which even a support engineer christened as “strange”. The problem was initially discovered whilst the root disk mirroring process was on-going. I noticed that it took flagrant […]

Posted on April 30, 2010 at 5:40 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris, Sun

OpenSolaris, licensing, rumors and more

Right on the heels from the MOSUG meeting we had tonight I have something interesting to share with you. Mostly it relates to the most hot topics regarding the future of OpenSolaris, Solaris licensing and support. And so… As you’ve already heard or read in the mailing lists the latest OpenSolaris build has been frozen […]

Posted on April 28, 2010 at 12:52 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Solaris, Sun

Anther MOSUG meeting

Hi folks. There is going to b anther meeting of MOSUG next Tuesday (27th of April). More details about the agenda could be found here. It’s expected that Frederic Pariente from Oracle would join us as well so there is a non-zero chance to fish out some news and future plans straight from the horse’s […]

Posted on April 25, 2010 at 10:50 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Solaris

Solaris Live Upgrade

In the following post I’d like to go through in a step-by-step manner an upgrade process of Solaris OS. My goal is to jump from Solaris 9 right into Solaris 10 wagon and cause as minimal downtime as possible. To achieve that goal I will be using Solaris Live Upgrade facility together with Solaris flash […]

Posted on March 25, 2010 at 12:28 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

Everything is in our hands

Yesterday I had a chance to be a part of Moscow OpenSolaris User Group meeting. It’s worth noting that it was two or three years ago when Moscow community gathered together the last time. I do hope that from now on these meeting will become more frequent and more fruitful. Back to the point. The […]

Posted on March 18, 2010 at 11:55 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Solaris

Moscow OpenSolaris User Group Meeting

If just by a coincidence you are in Moscow and you’re interested in OpenSolaris then the following information could feed a curiosity. And that’s because there is going to be a meeting on the 17th of March dedicated to OpenSolaris. Come and join us here. Look forward to seeing you there.

Posted on March 12, 2010 at 9:25 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Solaris