Entries tagged with 'zones'

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008:

Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative.
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting [...]

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007:

Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it’s not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching.
Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I’m a very disappointed in [...]

Sun has released Solaris 10 8/07 (aka update 4) into the wild. You can grab a copy for yourself from the download site.
There are a lot of enhancements and some new functionality in this release. Most notably IP Instances, so each of your zones can have their own IP stack, and Branded Zones, which allows [...]

Links of interest for 3 August 2007:

HOWTO: Move a Solaris Containers How To Guides - Details how to move a container from one host to another using functionality already in Solaris Express and due in Solaris 10.
HOWTO: Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers - A basic guide that demonstrates the use of ZFS in conjunction [...]

Links of interest for 1 April 2007 - 8 April 2007:

ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. - Solaris, FreeBSD and soon OS X, who’s next?
I See You! snoop(1M)’ing in non-global zones! - A great article on using snoop within a non-global (local) zone. Take special note of the warnings as you may inadvertently allow [...]

Solaris 10 11/06 is available - well almost. The final build has been confirmed, the press got to hear about it two days ago, and the downloads will be available sometime on 11 December 2006.
So what’s so special about Solaris 10 11/06, well let me highlight some of the cool new features: