Entries tagged with 'Solaris'
As promised on Friday, I’ve taken the plunge and tested applying the latest patch cluster to a fresh Solaris 10u5 installation running 10 zones using the new zones parallel patching feature.
To speed things up and to try and prevent any problems I performed the following steps:
Jumpstarted the OS (SUNWCuser cluster)
Applied patches 125555-04 and 119254-66 (gives [...]
Solaris Zones Parallel Patching
If you’re running a fair few non-global zones on Solaris 10, you’ll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. Well, I’m please to say “not any more”.
The Zones Parallel Patching feature was officially released on Tuesday and is contained in the latest Solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 119254-66 (SPARC) and 119255-66 [...]
The Key to Live Upgrade Success
I think one of the best features of Solaris is the Live Upgrade mechanism. This really useful feature can be used for upgrading and patching with very little impact on the server. This means you can patch or upgrade your production system, whilst it’s still in production, and only schedule a short outage [...]
Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009:
Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too.
Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes’s Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that [...]
This one made us laugh today: someone made a silly mistake and removed execute permissions from chmod(1M). Oooops.
Thankfully, it was on Solaris so it’s easy enough to rectify thanks to “pkgchk -f”.
Links of interest for 6 Apr 2009 - 3 May 2009:
New Time Slider features coming up in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - Some useful and impressive changes are coming to TimeSlider. Time Slider is definitely starting to eclipse OS X’s Time Machine in over-all functionality, and in my opinion, usefulness.
ZFS Encrypted Backup to S3 - Now [...]
Updating the firmware on an Ultra 20 is a really simple matter: download the “Tools and Drivers” ISO image, burn it to DVD (as it’s about 1.3GB), boot from the DVD and select option 2 to perform the update.
However, it very quickly becomes way more complicated if you don’t have a DVD burner or [...]
Links of interest for 25 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009:
Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops - You can now get your hands on the much touted Opensolaris Toshiba laptops. Sadly, it#039;s US only at the mo with UK availability expected sometime in May 2009. I guess I#039;ll have to wait a bit, but it#039;ll be [...]
Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009:
Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS.
The ‘IBM buys Sun’ story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these [...]
Links of interest for 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009:
Speeding to a Halt - Wow!!! OpenSolaris shutdown taken from about 41 seconds to a mere 7. Brilliant work here by Dan Price.
Anatomy of Storage on the GRID - First Joyent, now MediaTemple. It’s great to see large, popular ISPs moving across to OpenSolaris [...]
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