Recent Posts by Joost Pronk Van Hoogeveen

In previous blogs, we have discussed the great improvements available in Oracle Solaris 11.4, and how important it is for customers to plan for a move to Oracle Solaris 11.4 as quickly as they can. We’re announcing that after January 2021 Oracle will only offer new fixes for Oracle Solaris 11.3 through Extended Support. Typically Oracle stops releasing Support Readiness Updates (SRUs) for one Oracle Solaris 11 update shortly after the next one is released, we've done this...

Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle Servers Forum 2020 will be held on September 29, starting at 9 AM PT, and registration is available here. We’ll talk about Oracle Solaris, SPARC, and x86 compute platforms for on-prem deployments, and how they are consistent, secure, and innovative. Customers are invited to directly engage with Oracle engineers to learn about...

I'm writing a short blog to give you a heads up that we'll be doing another Virtual Seminar on Oracle Solaris and SPARC next week on April 21st. In this seminar Renato, Martin and myself will be giving you an update on where we are with Oracle Solaris and SPARC Systems, plus we'll be giving a deeper dive and demo's on some of the new features and how to use them. We'll also have a team of folks from Oracle Solaris Engineering ready to answer questions during the seminar, so if...

One of the things I like to do on a somewhat regular basis is point out interesting upcoming customer events or interesting blogs. The first link is to a blog by Joerg Moellenkamp about a series of Business Breakfast events (5 in total) he's helping to organize together with Marcel Hofstetter from Jomasoft. They'll be talking about Oracle Solaris 11.4, the Jomasoft VDCF tool, and the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. These are events local to Germany and presumably will be...

Since our last update on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Java we've been getting more questions, so we wanted to write a quick blog to share the latest on this topic. There are a lot of applications out there running on Oracle Java SE 8 and Oracle Java SE 11, these are mature and widely adopted platforms. As you can see on the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap, Oracle is committed to supporting these releases until at least 2025 and 2026 respectively. In addition, this page notes: "Orac...

We got you covered on your way to Oracle Solaris 11 OS The Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System (OS) platform provides major improvements over earlier releases in areas critical to our customers, including gains in security, compliance, performance, virtualization, and observability. There are important business reasons for you to adopt the Oracle Solaris 11 OS release, including that it is much easier to manage and it can help to lower your cost to run and maintain your IT...

In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) so it gives you access to all its modules. In this blog I wanted to highlight the IPS RAD module and how you can use it through the REST interface to do some common IPS tasks using it. Where in the previous blog I showed the initial REST...

One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) introduced eons ago in Oracle Solaris 9. This to say the support for using larger memory pages than the standard page size (4KB on x86 and 8KB on SPARC). Anything larger than this smallest page size is seen as a "Large Page". The reason these large pages are important is for performance. As systems grew...

This blog is intended as an introduction to managing Oracle Solaris 11 through a REST interface, that is to say, managing it through http/https GET/PUT/POST/DELETE commands. Over the last few years the REST API has become a very popular way to talk to/manage services on the network. This is in part because pretty much anything can talk http/https — read: can talk over http/https and/or has an http/https server built in — so you can equally talk to and between applications,...