Some Fun Reading

Firstly, I'd like to highlight a series of blogs by Joerg Moellenkamp on his c0t0d0s0 blog on how to use Oracle Solaris 11.4 features. Lately he's been on fire! He has released a blog nearly every day and it just keeps on coming. Here is some links to the blogs he wrote in the last few weeks:

• Piped sandboxes
• vHBA and AIO
• Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct
• The long arm of binary compatibility
• Small changes : New open files default.
• Limits revisited
• Solaris scales
• You have been warned: Upgrading rpool
• ZFS allocation units
• New -s option for zpool status
• Which SRU to get those new features?
• svcbundle extended
• Jitter and delay for svcbundle generated SMF manifests
• ps
• gcore with less impact
• iostat and microseconds
• Homedirectories
• Even more new options for svcbundle
• Clean up after yourself

As you can see a whole set of super useful articles on a whole range of topics. There are bound to be more interesting blogs coming so check out his blog for new content.

Secondly, I'd like to make you aware of a newly released of Jomasoft's Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework (VDCF) 8.1 which has the following new major functionality:

• VDCF Web Dashboard 2.0
• ZFS Encryption
• Patching Statistic
• SMF Monitoring Autoclear
• Free Space Filesystem Monitoring

VDCF is a very useful and powerful alternative for customers who want to run, manage, and monitor LDoms and Oracle Solaris Zones at scale across many systems. For more information on what's new in the VDCF 8.1 release look here, and for more information on VDCF in general and what it can do, you can watch the VDCF webcasts here and read the documentation here.

Happy reading!