Hi Folks! Some of you may have noticed that I've been a little quieter than usual in the last year. Is it because I've lost interest in patching, maintenance...
Hi Folks! Some of you may have noticed that I've been a little quieter than usual in the last year. Is it because I've lost interest in patching, maintenance best practices, and improving our customers' lifecycle experience ? Not a bit of it. It's because my team and I have been rather busy - to put it mildly! - on developing the installation configuration utilities and maintenance updates for SPARC SuperCluster. SPARC SuperCluster is so good, and the feedback from the...
Hi Folks! Some of you may have noticed that I've been a little quieter than usual in the last year. Is it because I've lost interest in patching, maintenance best practices, and improving...
My colleague, Stefan Schneider, and his ISV Engineering team have released a new version of their Pre-Flight Checker tool which can be used to check whether...
My colleague, Stefan Schneider, and his ISV Engineering team have released a new version of their Pre-Flight Checker tool which can be used to check whether apps will work without modification on Solaris 11. It's downloadable from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/preflight-checker-tool-524493.html The new features include: 1. Fully globalized product, currently with support for English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese 2. Now detects issues...
My colleague, Stefan Schneider, and his ISV Engineering team have released a new version of their Pre-Flight Checker tool which can be used to check whether apps will work without modification...
My colleague Lukas Rovensky has started a blog, https://blogs.oracle.com/solarisfoss/ , on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) included in Solaris, including...
My colleague Lukas Rovensky has started a blog, https://blogs.oracle.com/solarisfoss/ , on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) included in Solaris, including what's covered by Oracle Premier Support, etc.
My colleague Lukas Rovensky has started a blog, https://blogs.oracle.com/solarisfoss/ , on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) included in Solaris, including what's covered by Oracle Premier Support,...
A couple of folks have posted comments on old blog entries complaining that they can't resolve links to old SunSolve content. SunSolve was decommissioned as...
A couple of folks have posted comments on old blog entries complaining that they can't resolve links to old SunSolve content. SunSolve was decommissioned as part of the integration into Oracle. Documentation which is still relevant was migrated. The URIs changed in the process. So did the document IDs. On the basis that it's better to teach a man how to fish than to just give him a fish, here's a tip on how to do find the current links to such migrated documentation. At...
A couple of folks have posted comments on old blog entries complaining that they can't resolve links to old SunSolve content. SunSolve was decommissioned as part of the integration into Oracle. ...
Hi Folks,My good buddy and all round good guy, Jeff McMeekin, has asked me to let you know that Version 5.3 of the Solaris Crash Analysis Tool is now available...
Hi Folks,My good buddy and all round good guy, Jeff McMeekin, has asked me to let you know that Version 5.3 of the Solaris Crash Analysis Tool is now available to download. This includes support for Solaris 11.See http://blogs.oracle.com/solariscat/ for further details.From my peer, Deb Smith:We are very pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris Crash Analysis Tool, version 5.3 is now available on MOS.With 5.3, functionally has been added to support Solaris 11, in addition to...
Hi Folks,My good buddy and all round good guy, Jeff McMeekin, has asked me to let you know that Version 5.3 of the Solaris Crash Analysis Tool is now available to download. This includes support for...
Hi Folks,On the basis that you can't have too much of a good thing, I've started a 2nd blog, the Solaris11Life blog , to enable me to blog about all aspects of...
Hi Folks,On the basis that you can't have too much of a good thing, I've started a 2nd blog, the Solaris11Life blog , to enable me to blog about all aspects of the Solaris 11 Customer Maintenance Lifecycle, including policies, best practices, resource links, clarifications, and anything else which I hope you may find useful.In my first post, I share my Solaris 11 Customer Maintenance Lifecycle presentation, which I gave at Oracle Open World and the recent Deutsche Oracle...
Hi Folks,On the basis that you can't have too much of a good thing, I've started a 2nd blog, the Solaris11Life blog , to enable me to blog about all aspects of the Solaris 11 Customer...
Today, we launch Solaris 11 in New York City.Work on Solaris 11 started 7 years ago, as soon as Solaris 10 reached "code freeze".About 6 years ago in a Solaris...
Today, we launch Solaris 11 in New York City.Work on Solaris 11 started 7 years ago, as soon as Solaris 10 reached "code freeze".About 6 years ago in a Solaris P-Team (Product Team) meeting, someone raised the repeatedly asked question as to when we planned to release Solaris 11.A slightly exasperated Jeff Jackson said 11/11/11, half jokingly, half seriously. It made sense. It was in the right ballpark considering all the radical changes the architects wanted to make in...
Today, we launch Solaris 11 in New York City.Work on Solaris 11 started 7 years ago, as soon as Solaris 10 reached "code freeze".About 6 years ago in a Solaris P-Team (Product Team) meeting, someone...
Just a quick heads-up that Solaris 9 will transition to Vintage support (old sun terminology) / Extended support (Oracle terminology) at the end of this month....
Just a quick heads-up that Solaris 9 will transition to Vintage support (old sun terminology) / Extended support (Oracle terminology) at the end of this month. Solaris 9 patches released from November 1, 2011, will have Vintage/Extended access entitlement by default, which means that only customers with an Extended Support contract for Solaris will be able to access them. Updates to the Recommended Solaris 9 OS Patchset will cease at that time. Pre-existing Solaris 9 patches...
Just a quick heads-up that Solaris 9 will transition to Vintage support (old sun terminology) / Extended support (Oracle terminology) at the end of this month. Solaris 9 patches released from November...
I forgot to let you know, but a couple of months ago, my colleagues, Don O'Malley and Ed Clark updated the Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade (LU) document describing...
I forgot to let you know, but a couple of months ago, my colleagues, Don O'Malley and Ed Clark updated the Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade (LU) document describing the pre-requisites for Live Upgrade.The original document was pretty convoluted and required several cups of strong coffee to parse. The updated version is a little easier to understand, even without caffeine.Thanks also to Beth Barrett, Rick Ramsey, and Jon Bowman who helped make this happen.
I forgot to let you know, but a couple of months ago, my colleagues, Don O'Malley and Ed Clark updated the Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade (LU) document describing the pre-requisites for Live Upgrade.The...
