Dave Miner
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
I'm the architect for Solaris cloud, deployment and system management features, with a lot of background in networking on the side. I was co-author of the OpenSolaris Bible (Wiley, 2009). I also play a lot of golf.
Recent Blogs
Introducing VirtIO Drivers with Oracle Solaris on OCI
Since October 2019, Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace. With Oracle Solaris in the cloud, customers can now deploy their workloads by creating new Oracle Solaris instances utilizing OCI native resources for compute, storage, and networking. ...
Building Custom Solaris Images for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
With this month's release of Oracle Solaris 11.4.21, we're making it easy for Solaris users of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to build custom images for use in your tenancies by releasing the tooling we have used to build the Solaris 11.4 images that are available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace....
Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 14 Images in OCI Marketplace
Following on to last week's release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 14, we've updated the Solaris listing in the Orace Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace to make pre-built 11.4 SRU 14 images available, in addition to the Solaris 11.4 GA images previously available. This will make it easier than ever ...
Oracle Solaris Now Available in the OCI Marketplace
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of OCI IaaS can run Solaris workloads in the cloud with full support from Oracle, which is included in your IaaS subscription. There are two ima...
How to Install the OCI CLI on Oracle Solaris
Following on to my previous posts on using Oracle Solaris with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)... All modern clouds provide a fancy browser console that lets you easily manage any of your cloud resources. For power users, though, the browser console is often the slowest way to get things done. Plu...