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...
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. We build these images using the Solaris Distribution Constructor tool, distro_const(8), which we use to build all of the Solaris 11 media images for distribution. Some of you...
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...
Guest Author: Martin Rehak Oracle Solaris 11.4-SRU 21 and newer delivers a major update of the printing software: cups-2.3.1 cups-filters-1.25.11...
Guest Author: Martin Rehak Oracle Solaris 11.4-SRU 21 and newer delivers a major update of the printing software: cups-2.3.1 cups-filters-1.25.11 ghostscript-9.27 hplip-3.19.5 gutenprint-5.2.13 Older Oracle Solaris versions were based on outdated CUPS-1.4.5 software. What's new? The most important changes: TLS/SSL support; policy settings in client.conf IPP Everywhere conformance including TLS/SSL support PDF filters is now a separate project and package PDF has changed the...
Guest Author: Martin Rehak Oracle Solaris 11.4-SRU 21 and newer delivers a major update of the printing software: cups-2.3.1 cups-filters-1.25.11 ghostscript-9.27 hplip-3.19.5 gutenprint-5.2.13 Older...
IPSec is a secure protocol used to encrypt data packets between systems that are configured with IPSec. In this article, we shall see how we can configure and...
IPSec is a secure protocol used to encrypt data packets between systems that are configured with IPSec. In this article, we shall see how we can configure and enable IPSec between two Solaris servers The Solaris version used in this article is - Solaris 11.4 Also, this article assumes all the below configuration are done with root privileges. Steps to Configure IPsec using IKE are ad follows: Setting up IKE( Internet Key Exchange) with Pre-shared keys Configuring IPSec...
IPSec is a secure protocol used to encrypt data packets between systems that are configured with IPSec. In this article, we shall see how we can configure and enable IPSec between two Solaris servers...
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...
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...
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...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 release introduced a new feature i.e, Solaris Analytics that helps in analyzing Oracle Solaris systems issues and monitoring various...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 release introduced a new feature i.e, Solaris Analytics that helps in analyzing Oracle Solaris systems issues and monitoring various resources on the system. The two components of the Analytics feature are StatsStore and Analytics WebUI. You can read more about these components in the following blogs: Solaris Analytics - An Overview what-is-this-bui-thing-anyway With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 19, you can configure StatsStore to generate a...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 release introduced a new feature i.e, Solaris Analytics that helps in analyzing Oracle Solaris systems issues and monitoring various resources on the system. The two components of...
In my previous post on RAID-5, I talked about how we can recover the data using simple additions and subtractions. We will discuss RAID-6 in this post. ...
In my previous post on RAID-5, I talked about how we can recover the data using simple additions and subtractions. We will discuss RAID-6 in this post. Unfortunately, you need a bit more than additions and subtractions to understand how we recover data in RAID-6. Toward the end of this post, I will touch briefly upon the "finite field," but I will refrain from being too mathematical. Index: Recap Why Do We Need RAID-6 Is Single Parity Useless? Assign Numbers For Each Drive...
In my previous post on RAID-5, I talked about how we can recover the data using simple additions and subtractions. We will discuss RAID-6 in this post. Unfortunately, you need a bit more...
Things break. So are the hard drives and SSDs. We are storing our important data on devices that we know they eventually break, so we need some protection. We...
Things break. So are the hard drives and SSDs. We are storing our important data on devices that we know they eventually break, so we need some protection. We use RAID technology for granted without knowing much about its internals. This post is an attempt to explain how RAID-5 recovers data by using elementary school math. Understanding the internal will help you understand why the RAID layout with a lot of drives would take longer to recover data. In this post, I...
Things break. So are the hard drives and SSDs. We are storing our important data on devices that we know they eventually break, so we need some protection. We use RAID technology for granted without...
Today we are releasing SRU 15, the November 2019 SRU, for Oracle Solaris 11.4. It is available via 'pkg update' from the support repository or by downloading...
Today we are releasing SRU 15, the November 2019 SRU, for Oracle Solaris 11.4. It is available via 'pkg update' from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2433412.1. This SRU introduces the following enhancements: Explorer 19.4 is now available New modules for python 3.7: pybonjour pygobject3 Inclusion of cbindgen 0.8.7 into Oracle Solaris 11.4 Added support for Python 3.7 to RAD Add page retire kstats that counts retired pages and...
Today we are releasing SRU 15, the November 2019 SRU, for Oracle Solaris 11.4. It is available via 'pkg update' from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID...
