In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris...
In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris TechDays in on April 29th in Dubai and on May 14th in Prague. These TechDays are all day events with in-depth presentations and demonstrations on various Oracle Solaris technologies and features, and how to use them. What also makes these TechDays special is that the presentations are given by Bill Nesheim -- the VP of...
In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris TechDays in on April 29th in Dubai and on...
I love opensource software, I use it every day, but sometimes a component I need is either not present in or at the wrong version in Oracle Solaris. We often...
I love opensource software, I use it every day, but sometimes a component I need is either not present in or at the wrong version in Oracle Solaris. We often hear the same requests from our customers too. Please can I have version x.y of opensource software FOO on Oracle Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris depends heavily on opensource software and we try to keep them reasonably up to date, while being careful not to break anything. However we don't have every peice of opensource...
I love opensource software, I use it every day, but sometimes a component I need is either not present in or at the wrong version in Oracle Solaris. We often hear the same requests from our customers...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts out by Martin Mueller and Andrew Watkins describing how to build recent OpenJDK versions from sources. But there is an issue. To build OpenJDK you will always need previous version as a boot JDK. Basically to build OpenJDK 12 you will need OpenJDK 11 and so on. For SPARC it's rather easy as you can download Java SE...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts out by Martin Mueller and...
If you are an administrator of Oracle Solaris 11 systems you will very likely be aware that several of the critical installation and management tools are...
If you are an administrator of Oracle Solaris 11 systems you will very likely be aware that several of the critical installation and management tools are implemented in Python rather than the more traditional C and/or shell script. Python is often a good choice as a systems development language and Oracle Solaris is not alone in choosing to use it more extensively. If you have done any programming with Python or have installed other Python tools you are probably aware that...
If you are an administrator of Oracle Solaris 11 systems you will very likely be aware that several of the critical installation and management tools are implemented in Python rather than the...
On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be...
On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be good to share on this blog roll too. It has blogs from this blog roll as well as many others and it gives a nice insight into the recent activity in this area as well as the new features delivered via the "Continuous Innovation" process in the 11.4 SRU's. Here's the list: Update on Oracle Java on Oracle Solaris — ...
On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be good to share on this blog roll too. It has...
As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over...
As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over the system that Oracle Solaris is running on. Some of these stats come from the Oracle Solaris kernel and some from userland applications. One of the interesting things about the design of the StatsStore and Dashboard however is that it also allows you to collect data from other sources like applications running on...
As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over the system that Oracle Solaris...
Building OpenJDK Java Releases on Oracle Solaris/SPARC Starting with Java SE 8, Oracle created the concept of Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases, which are...
Building OpenJDK Java Releases on Oracle Solaris/SPARC Starting with Java SE 8, Oracle created the concept of Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases, which are expected to be used and supported for an extended amount of time and for production purposes. Oracle Java SE 8 and Java SE 11 are LTS releases and are available and supported for Oracle Solaris - subject to licensing and support requirements detailed...
Building OpenJDK Java Releases on Oracle Solaris/SPARC Starting with Java SE 8, Oracle created the concept of Long-Term-Support (LTS) releases, which are expected to be used and supported for...
Many of our customers use golden images of Solaris with fully installed and configured applications to deploy their production systems. They create a golden...
Many of our customers use golden images of Solaris with fully installed and configured applications to deploy their production systems. They create a golden image by capturing a snapshot of their staging system's files in a Solaris Unified Archive. Solaris normally clears the staging system's network configuration during golden image installation. This makes sense given that each production system will have a different IP address and often resides in a different site with...
Many of our customers use golden images of Solaris with fully installed and configured applications to deploy their production systems. They create a golden image by capturing a snapshot of their...
The first item in Solaris 11.4’s list of new networking features was "Migration of persistent network configuration to SMF". Does it really matter where the...
The first item in Solaris 11.4’s list of new networking features was "Migration of persistent network configuration to SMF". Does it really matter where the network configuration is stored? Absolutely! Solaris is often installed in large data centers where manual installation and configuration of each individual system is not practical. Solaris 11's Automated Installer along with Solaris' System Management Facility (SMF) were developed to make installation and configuration...
The first item in Solaris 11.4’s list of new networking features was "Migration of persistent network configuration to SMF". Does it really matter where the network configuration is...
