There have been a few improvements to DTrace in Solaris 11.2. llquantize() DTrace has quantize() and lquantize() aggregating actions to give you, respectively,...
There have been a few improvements to DTrace in Solaris 11.2. llquantize() DTrace has quantize() and lquantize() aggregating actions to give you, respectively, a power-of-two distribution and a linear distribution of data points that you're interested in. While these are both useful, there may be instances in which you want to examine events whose latencies span multiple orders of magnitude, but for which you want relatively fine-grained information about the data within...
There have been a few improvements to DTrace in Solaris 11.2. llquantize() DTrace has quantize() and lquantize() aggregating actions to give you, respectively, a power-of-two distribution and a linear...
During the lead up to Oracle Solaris 11.2 GA, I noticed that I had written an article back last year that never got published about understanding IPS package...
During the lead up to Oracle Solaris 11.2 GA, I noticed that I had written an article back last year that never got published about understanding IPS package versioning. If you haven't yet had a chance to look at Oracle Solaris 11, one of the really great changes that we introduced was completely replacing the packaging mechanism from the rather legacy SVR4 packaging system to the network based Image Packaging System. IPS relies on the fact that ZFS is the underlying file...
During the lead up to Oracle Solaris 11.2 GA, I noticed that I had written an article back last year that never got published about understanding IPS package versioning. If you haven't yet had...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 adds a new Automated Installer (AI) Manifest Wizard to allow administrators to more easily create AI manifests for use in provisioning new...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 adds a new Automated Installer (AI) Manifest Wizard to allow administrators to more easily create AI manifests for use in provisioning new client systems in the data center. The AI Manifest Wizard is a web web based interface that steps administrators through the basics of the AI manifest - target disks and layout selection, additional ZFS pools and datasets, IPS publisher and package selection, and the creation of any Oracle Solaris Zone virtual...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 adds a new Automated Installer (AI) Manifest Wizard to allow administrators to more easily create AI manifests for use in provisioning new client systems in the data center. The AI...
One of the exciting enhancements with Oracle Solaris 11.2 has been the introduction of Puppet. While upstream Puppet did have some rudimentary support for...
One of the exciting enhancements with Oracle Solaris 11.2 has been the introduction of Puppet. While upstream Puppet did have some rudimentary support for Oracle Solaris 11, Drew Fisher and Ginnie Wray worked tirelessly to add enhance the Oracle Solaris Puppet offering. We've talked to customers over the past few years and asked them what their problems were and what technologies they were using, particularly for configuration management. Puppet came up time and time again,...
One of the exciting enhancements with Oracle Solaris 11.2 has been the introduction of Puppet. While upstream Puppet did have some rudimentary support for Oracle Solaris 11, Drew Fisher and...
I had the fortune of attending my 2nd OpenStack summit in Atlanta a few weeks ago and it turned out to be a really excellent event. Oracle had many folks there...
I had the fortune of attending my 2nd OpenStack summit in Atlanta a few weeks ago and it turned out to be a really excellent event. Oracle had many folks there this time around across a variety of different engineering teams - Oracle Solaris, Oracle ZFSSA, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM and more. Really great to see continuing momentum behind the project and we're very happy to be involved.Here's a list of the highlights that I had during the summit:The operators track was a really...
I had the fortune of attending my 2nd OpenStack summit in Atlanta a few weeks ago and it turned out to be a really excellent event. Oracle had many folks there this time around across a variety...
In all the LDoms workshops I've been doing in the past years, I've always been cautioning customers to keep their expectations within reasonable limits when it...
In all the LDoms workshops I've been doing in the past years, I've always been cautioning customers to keep their expectations within reasonable limits when it comes to virtual IO. And I'll not stop doing that today. Virtual IO will always come at a certain cost, because of the additional work necessary to translate physical IOs to the virtual world. Until we invent time travel, this will always need some additional time to be done. But there's some good news about this,...
In all the LDoms workshops I've been doing in the past years, I've always been cautioning customers to keep their expectations within reasonable limits when it comes to virtual IO. And I'll not stop...
Bei der Leistung von virtuellem IO sollte man seine Erwartungen in realistischen Grenzen halten. Darauf habe ich in all den Jahren in allen LDom Workshops...
Bei der Leistung von virtuellem IO sollte man seine Erwartungen in realistischen Grenzen halten. Darauf habe ich in all den Jahren in allen LDom Workshops hingewiesen. Und ich werde jetzt nicht damit aufhoeren. Virtuelles IO ist immer mit gewissen Kosten verbunden, einfach deswegen, weil es einen gewissen Aufwand bedeutet, die physischen IOs in virtuelle IOs zu uebersetzen. Und bis zur Entdeckung der Zeitreise wird dafuer immer auch ein wenig Zeit gebraucht werden. ...
Bei der Leistung von virtuellem IO sollte man seine Erwartungen in realistischen Grenzen halten. Darauf habe ich in all den Jahren in allen LDom Workshops hingewiesen. Und ich werde jetzt nicht...
If you're at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta this week, drop on by our booth (D14) and come talk with us about what opportunities we have open. Or, visit our...
If you're at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta this week, drop on by our booth (D14) and come talk with us about what opportunities we have open. Or, visit our iRecruitment job site. Jobs of interest include: IRC2483584 (Oracle Solaris Networking) IRC2049805 (Oracle Solaris Core Technologies) IRC2145806 (Oracle Solaris Core Technologies) We'd also like to talk to anyone who has experience with OpenStack Neutron and/or OpenDaylight SDN, as well as Python.Find out more about...
If you're at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta this week, drop on by our booth (D14) and come talk with us about what opportunities we have open. Or, visit our iRecruitment job site. Jobs of interest...
[UPDATE: did we say all the posts? After you read these, there are 44 more waiting for you.]As I hope you've heard already, we launched Oracle Solaris 11.2...
[UPDATE: did we say all the posts? After you read these, there are 44 more waiting for you.]As I hope you've heard already, we launched Oracle Solaris 11.2 last week, and things have been busy ever since. Specifically, our engineers and others have gone nuts, kicking out an incredible number of blog posts. Glynn Foster has been sending me a continuous stream of links, promising me each time that it's going to die down any old time now ("...typical, the moment I send...
[UPDATE: did we say all the posts? After you read these, there are 44 more waiting for you.]As I hope you've heard already, we launched Oracle Solaris 11.2 last week, and things have been busy ever...
