Guest Author: Vladimír Kotal Supported OpenSSL Versions in Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21 delivers both the OpenSSL 1.0.2...
Guest Author: Vladimír Kotal Supported OpenSSL Versions in Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21 delivers both the OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.1.1 versions. These versions are not binary compatible, so software that is compiled with OpenSSL headers and linked with OpenSSL libraries from one version cannot run with the OpenSSL libraries from the other version. The goal of this article is to clear potential confusion with regards to FIPS 140-2...
Guest Author: Vladimír Kotal Supported OpenSSL Versions in Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21 delivers both the OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.1.1 versions....
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cups-filters-1.25.11 ghostscript-9.27 hplip-3.19.5 gutenprint-5.2.13 Older Oracle Solaris versions were based on outdated CUPS-1.4.5 software.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...
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...
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of...
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of OCI IaaS can run Solaris workloads in the cloud with full support from Oracle, which is included in your IaaS subscription. There are two images, one for bare metal and another for virtual machines, and they're available in all OCI regions. Using the Solaris images is very simple. In the OCI console, select the...
We're pleased to announce that Oracle Solaris 11.4 images are now available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Marketplace! This means that customers of OCI IaaS can run Solaris workloads in...
In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also...
In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) so it gives you access to all its modules. In this blog I wanted to highlight the IPS RAD module and how you can use it through the REST interface to do some common IPS tasks using it. Where in the previous blog I showed the initial REST calls...
In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the...
One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size...
One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) introduced eons ago in Oracle Solaris 9. This to say the support for using larger memory pages than the standard page size (4KB on x86 and 8KB on SPARC). Anything larger than this smallest page size is seen as a "Large Page". The reason these large pages are important is for performance. As systems grew...
One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) introduced eons ago...
