With the release of the October 2018 Solaris 10 Extended Support Recommended patch set, you can now run Solaris 10 in Oracle Cloud. I thought it would be good...
With the release of the October 2018 Solaris 10 Extended Support Recommended patch set, you can now run Solaris 10 in Oracle Cloud. I thought it would be good to document the main steps for getting an image you can run in OCI High level steps are Create a Solaris 10 image using Virtualbox and get it patched with the October 2018 patch set Unconfigure it and shut it down Upload it to the Oracle Cloud object storage Create a custom image from that object you've just uploaded...
With the release of the October 2018 Solaris 10 Extended Support Recommended patch set, you can now run Solaris 10 in Oracle Cloud. I thought it would be good to document the main steps for getting an...
Hi Folks, I'm presenting @ Oracle Open World this Monday, Oct 26, 5:15pm in the Intercontinental, Room B. The title is CON4940 "Spending Less Time Maintaining...
Hi Folks, I'm presenting @ Oracle Open World this Monday, Oct 26, 5:15pm in the Intercontinental, Room B. The title is CON4940 "Spending Less Time Maintaining And More Time With Your Family". I'll share data on how with one simple installation decision you can reduce your subsequent production lifecycle issue rate by over 70%, both in terms of Service Requests and underlying Bugs. I'll also share data on two other easy ways you can dramatically reduce your operational risk...
Hi Folks, I'm presenting @ Oracle Open World this Monday, Oct 26, 5:15pm in the Intercontinental, Room B. The title is CON4940 "Spending Less Time Maintaining And More Time With Your Family". I'll...
Hi Folks, Apologies for the rather exasperated tone of this post, but if I had a $1 for every time a 3rd party security scanning tool falsely reported that...
Hi Folks, Apologies for the rather exasperated tone of this post, but if I had a $1 for every time a 3rd party security scanning tool falsely reported that we're missing a security fix in the Solaris 10 Recommended patchset... Let me assure you, the Solaris 10 Recommended patchset really does contain all available security fixes for the Solaris OS*. * In deference to Murphy's Law, I'd better insert a disclaimer that I'm sure there'll be a security fix at some future point in...
Hi Folks, Apologies for the rather exasperated tone of this post, but if I had a $1 for every time a 3rd party security scanning tool falsely reported that we're missing a security fix in the...
Here's an updated version of patching best practice presentation, PatchingBestPractice.pdf. You can still find more verbose earlier versions in prior postings....
Here's an updated version of patching best practice presentation, PatchingBestPractice.pdf. You can still find more verbose earlier versions in prior postings. Best Wishes, Gerry.
A customer once said to me that "bad news, delivered early, is relatively good news, as it enables me to plan for contingencies". That need to manage...
A customer once said to me that "bad news, delivered early, is relatively good news, as it enables me to plan for contingencies". That need to manage expectations has stuck with me over the years. And in that spirit, we issue Docs detailing known issues with Solaris 11 SRUs (Doc ID 1900381.1) and Solaris 10 CPU patchsets (Doc ID 1943839.1). Many issues only occur in very specific configuration scenarios which won't be seen by the vast majority of customers. A few will be...
A customer once said to me that "bad news, delivered early, is relatively good news, as it enables me to plan for contingencies". That need to manage expectations has stuck with me over the years....
Solaris 8 and 9 Extended (a.k.a Vintage) Support finished at the end of Oct 2014. We've flushed the queues of any fixes which were still in-flight from that...
Solaris 8 and 9 Extended (a.k.a Vintage) Support finished at the end of Oct 2014. We've flushed the queues of any fixes which were still in-flight from that time and released the final set of Solaris 8 and 9 patches have been released to MOS. Solaris 8 and 9 patches will continue to be available to customers with appropriate Sustaining Support contracts, as will telephone support, but no new Solaris 8 and 9 patches will be created. As you can see from Page 37 of the Solaris...
Solaris 8 and 9 Extended (a.k.a Vintage) Support finished at the end of Oct 2014. We've flushed the queues of any fixes which were still in-flight from that time and released the final set of Solaris...
You may have heard about Oracle's "Software In Silicon" strategy to dramatically improve business performance by moving critical software functions directly...
You may have heard about Oracle's "Software In Silicon" strategy to dramatically improve business performance by moving critical software functions directly onto the processor chips. Now, you have a chance to try it out yourself, with the Software In Silicon cloud. See John Soat's Proof Of Concept article for details.
You may have heard about Oracle's "Software In Silicon" strategy to dramatically improve business performance by moving critical software functions directly onto the processor chips. Now, you have a...
Solaris 9 is exiting Extended Support and entering Sustaining Support. In accordance with the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy for Software and Operating...
Solaris 9 is exiting Extended Support and entering Sustaining Support. In accordance with the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy for Software and Operating Systems, http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf (Page 37), and http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/hardware-systems-support-policies-069182.pdf (Pages 6 and 9), all patches created during the Extended Support period will revert to "Operating System" access entitlement on MOS so they...
SRUs, Patches, and IDRs (Interim Diagnostics & Relief) are available from My Oracle Support, support.oracle.com for all supported Solaris releases to address...
SRUs, Patches, and IDRs (Interim Diagnostics & Relief) are available from My Oracle Support, support.oracle.com for all supported Solaris releases to address the recent critical bash vulnerabilities, CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169. Newer IDR revisions are available on MOS which additionally address the less critical "mop up" vulnerabilities, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187. Patches and SRUs will follow for these too. See MOS Doc ID 1930090.1 for details. Many thanks to the folks...
SRUs, Patches, and IDRs (Interim Diagnostics & Relief) are available from My Oracle Support, support.oracle.com for all supported Solaris releases to address the recent critical bash vulnerabilities,...
