New in Solaris 11.3 is a kernel memory allocation subsystem called the kernel object manager, or KOM. The first consumer of this subsystem is the ZFS ARC. Prior...
New in Solaris 11.3 is a kernel memory allocation subsystem called the kernel object manager, or KOM. The first consumer of this subsystem is the ZFS ARC. Prior to Solaris 11.3, the ZFS ARC allocated its memory from the kernel heap space using kmem caches. This has several drawbacks: first, internal fragmentation can result in memory used by the ARC not being reclaimed by the system. This problem is particularly acute if large pages are being used, since the buffer size is...
New in Solaris 11.3 is a kernel memory allocation subsystem called the kernel object manager, or KOM. The first consumer of this subsystem is the ZFS ARC. Prior to Solaris 11.3, the ZFS ARC allocated...
As organisations look for increased agility in their IT operations, many are turning towards more cloud like environments with shared compute, network and...
As organisations look for increased agility in their IT operations, many are turning towards more cloud like environments with shared compute, network and storage, and the ability for self-service users to quickly provision new virtualised environments on demand. With this increased virtualization sprawl, it's imperative to have a set of tools to allow administrators to effectively manage these environments, ensure they remain highly available, secure and observable.There's...
As organisations look for increased agility in their IT operations, many are turning towards more cloud like environments with shared compute, network and storage, and the ability for...
We've done it again! Oracle Solaris 11.3 beta has been released today! The beta program is a great opportunity to download the latest release, try it out, and...
We've done it again! Oracle Solaris 11.3 beta has been released today! The beta program is a great opportunity to download the latest release, try it out, and give us some feedback.We've crammed in hundreds of new features into this release including some of my favourites: an updated OpenStack distribution (Juno), live migration support for Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones and hosting them over NFS using shared storage, bigger compression ratios with LZ4 support in the ZFS file...
We've done it again! Oracle Solaris 11.3 beta has been released today! The beta program is a great opportunity to download the latest release, try it out, and give us some feedback.We've crammed in...
Secure Live Migration with Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones Hopefully you have heard about the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta release but if not you can learn more here....
Secure Live Migration with Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones Hopefully you have heard about the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta release but if not you can learn more here. One of the key features of the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta release is the introduction of Secure Live Migration for Kernel Zones. This feature brings with it a couple of things of note. First the obvious part - with live migration system administrators can limit the number and types of outages to applications and end...
Secure Live Migration with Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones Hopefully you have heard about the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta release but if not you can learn more here. One of the key features of the...
New Oracle Solaris Zones features In case you missed it, and how could you, the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta was made available today. You can find the details...
New Oracle Solaris Zones features In case you missed it, and how could you, the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta was made available today. You can find the details here. As always the Oracle Solaris Virtualization team has been very busy and there is a great list of things that they have delivered. Here are a few highlights: Secure Live Migration: Kernel Zones can now be moved around the datacenter without causing an outage. End users can be unaffected and moved onto other systems...
New Oracle Solaris Zones features In case you missed it, and how could you, the Oracle Solaris 11.3 Beta was made available today. You can find the details here. As always the Oracle...
Today Oracle announced a new programto provide customers with evaluation copies of new and updated versions of selected FOSS components ahead of officially...
Today Oracle announced a new programto provide customers with evaluation copies of new and updated versions of selected FOSS components ahead of officially supported Oracle Solaris product releases. The first set of packages -- utilities, services, productivity tools, and developer tools -- will be available today at theOracle Solaris product release repository for customers running Oracle Solaris 11.2 GA.The source code used to build the components is available at the...
Today Oracle announced a new programto provide customers with evaluation copies of new and updated versions of selected FOSS components ahead of officially supported Oracle Solaris product releases....
This morning, we’ve opened up access to the beta release of Oracle Solaris 11.3. If you’ve been following along (and if not, why not?), you know there have...
This morning, we’ve opened up access to the beta release of Oracle Solaris 11.3. If you’ve been following along (and if not, why not?), you know there have been some big advances in Oracle Solaris 11, including lightning-fast intelligent provisioning and maintenance, and some key additions to our already highly-regarded “defense in depth” security.Most notable for the latter is the work we’ve done to simplify compliance checking and mitigation, making it possible for...
This morning, we’ve opened up access to the beta release of Oracle Solaris 11.3. If you’ve been following along (and if not, why not?), you know there have been some big advances in Oracle...
The Oracle Solaris Crash Analysis Engineering Team is happy to announce that Oracle Solaris CAT 5.5 is available for download. The 5.5 release patches are...
The Oracle Solaris Crash Analysis Engineering Team is happy to announce that Oracle Solaris CAT 5.5 is available for download. The 5.5 release patches are available on MOS, and can be found by searching on the patchIDs 21099218 (Combined package supporting SPARC and X86/X64) and 21099215 (platform specific packages). Go to MOS: https://support.oracle.com and login Click on tab entitled Patches and Updates at top Enter 21099218 and 21099215 for patch numbers Click on...
The Oracle Solaris Crash Analysis Engineering Team is happy to announce that Oracle Solaris CAT 5.5 is available for download. The 5.5 release patches are available on MOS, and can be found by...
This morning at the Vancouver summit, the OpenStack Foundation announced its Community App Catalog, a new service that makes it easy for developers to share...
This morning at the Vancouver summit, the OpenStack Foundation announced its Community App Catalog, a new service that makes it easy for developers to share their applications and developer tools for OpenStack clouds. (Which of course in turn makes it easy for admins to find, obtain and update software.) We're pleased that one of the charter entries in the catalog is Oracle Database 12c, with the Oracle Multitenant option, making it easy for admins to deploy Pluggable...
This morning at the Vancouver summit, the OpenStack Foundation announced its Community App Catalog, a new service that makes it easy for developers to share their applications and developer tools for...
