Solaris 11.2 is released! There's a huge amount of new and improved features in Solaris 11.2 as well as thousands of bug fixes. In short, it's our best Solaris...
Solaris 11.2 is released! There's a huge amount of new and improved features in Solaris 11.2 as well as thousands of bug fixes. In short, it's our best Solaris ever! For security conscious customers, Solaris 11.2 delivers significant compliance enhancements (see the docs) and provides the new "solaris-minimal-server" Install group, which is an excellent basis for installing secure, minimized (hardened) systems. Hardening (minimizing) a system in Solaris 10 and earlier was as...
Solaris 11.2 is released! There's a huge amount of new and improved features in Solaris 11.2 as well as thousands of bug fixes. In short, it's our best Solaris ever! For security conscious customers,...
My colleagues, Susan Miller and Erwann Chénedé, have been working with the nice people behind the ORAchk tool (formerly RACcheck) to add Solaris health checks...
My colleagues, Susan Miller and Erwann Chénedé, have been working with the nice people behind the ORAchk tool (formerly RACcheck) to add Solaris health checks to the tool. ORAchk 2.2.4, containing the initial 8 Solaris health checks, is now available: ORAchk includes EXAchks functionality and replaces the popular RACcheck tool, extending the coverage based on prioritization of top issues reported by users, to proactively scan for known problems within: E-Business Suite...
My colleagues, Susan Miller and Erwann Chénedé, have been working with the nice people behind the ORAchk tool (formerly RACcheck) to add Solaris health checks to the tool. ORAchk 2.2.4, containing...
Some say it's rude to stare. But that's not my experience. I've been working on SuperCluster for 2 years now. And I've been looking intently at issues arising...
Some say it's rude to stare. But that's not my experience. I've been working on SuperCluster for 2 years now. And I've been looking intently at issues arising for SuperCluster customers, both to ensure the issues are fixed a.s.a.p. and to understand what lessons we can learn and where we can improve our products and processes. Why ? Well, I want every customer to have the best possible experience. Call me naive, but I sincerely believe that ensuring a good customer...
Some say it's rude to stare. But that's not my experience. I've been working on SuperCluster for 2 years now. And I've been looking intently at issues arising for SuperCluster customers, both to...
Here's a Top Tip from my colleague, IPS Guru, and all-round good guy, Pete Dennis: Background If the issue(s) addressed by a Solaris 11 IDR (Interim Diagnostics...
Here's a Top Tip from my colleague, IPS Guru, and all-round good guy, Pete Dennis: Background If the issue(s) addressed by a Solaris 11 IDR (Interim Diagnostics / Relief) are fixed in a subsequent SRU (Support Repository Update), the SRU is said to "supersede" the IDR. As mentioned in previous posts, in Solaris 11 the IDR is automatically superseded when the system is updated to the relevant SRU (or any later SRU). That is, unlike in Solaris 10, there's no need to manually...
Here's a Top Tip from my colleague, IPS Guru, and all-round good guy, Pete Dennis: Background If the issue(s) addressed by a Solaris 11 IDR (Interim Diagnostics / Relief) are fixed in a subsequent...
Just thought you may be interested in some random metrics... The unit of measurement is Umpf! The more Umpf!, the better. Comparing Oracle Sun's latest...
Just thought you may be interested in some random metrics... The unit of measurement is Umpf! The more Umpf!, the better. Comparing Oracle Sun's latest systems to some of our old favorite systems: The new M6-32 which was announced at OpenWorld is ~174x more powerful than a fully loaded E10K running Solaris 8. A T5-8 running Solaris 11 is ~133x more powerful than a fully loaded V880 and ~530x more powerful than a fully loaded E450 running Solaris 8. Holy spondulicks! Guess...
Just thought you may be interested in some random metrics... The unit of measurement is Umpf! The more Umpf!, the better. Comparing Oracle Sun's latest systems to some of our old favorite systems:...
We now have quite a bit of experience of IPS and Repositories under our belt. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive. I recently met a customer...
We now have quite a bit of experience of IPS and Repositories under our belt. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive. I recently met a customer with 1000+ Solaris servers who told me that with Solaris 10 it took them 2 months to roll out a new patchset across their enterprise. With Solaris 11, it takes 10 days. That really helps lower TCO. As with anything, experience teaches us how to optimize things. Here's a few Top Tips around IPS / Repo management which...
We now have quite a bit of experience of IPS and Repositories under our belt. Feedback from customers has been extremely positive. I recently met a customer with 1000+ Solaris servers who told me...
We're tweaking the naming convention used by Oracle Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) to use a 5-digit taxonomy.For example, Oracle Solaris...
We're tweaking the naming convention used by Oracle Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) to use a 5-digit taxonomy.For example, Oracle Solaris 11.1.6.4.0The digits represent Release.Update.SRU.Build.Respin For the above example, the old name would have been Oracle Solaris 11.1 SRU 6.4. As with Oracle Solaris 10 and below, all bug fixes are putback to the tip of the source tree for Solaris 11, which is currently Solaris 11.1.x.y.z. Therefore, these same SRUs are also the...
We're tweaking the naming convention used by Oracle Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) to use a 5-digit taxonomy.For example, Oracle Solaris 11.1.6.4.0The digits...
Introduction Image Packaging System (IPS) is a single tier packaging architecture which in Oracle Solaris 11, and other Oracle Sun products such as Oracle...
Introduction Image Packaging System (IPS) is a single tier packaging architecture which in Oracle Solaris 11, and other Oracle Sun products such as Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x, replaces the previous SVR4-based dual tier packaging and patching architecture. IPS and its implementation in Solaris 11 has a number of significant advantages over the old SVR4-based architecture, including: Monthly consolidated bug fix Support Repository Updates (SRUs) providing a regular predictable...
Introduction Image Packaging System (IPS) is a single tier packaging architecture which in Oracle Solaris 11, and other Oracle Sun products such as Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x, replaces the previous...
It's not surprising that Engineered Systems accelerate the debugging and resolution of customer issues. But what has surprised me is just how much faster issue...
It's not surprising that Engineered Systems accelerate the debugging and resolution of customer issues. But what has surprised me is just how much faster issue resolution is with Engineered Systems such as SPARC SuperCluster. These are powerful, complex, systems used by customers wanting extreme database performance, app performance, and cost saving server consolidation. A SPARC SuperCluster consists or 2 or 4 powerful T4-4 compute nodes, 3 or 6 extreme performance Exadata...
It's not surprising that Engineered Systems accelerate the debugging and resolution of customer issues. But what has surprised me is just how much faster issue resolution is with Engineered Systems...
