What is a VXLAN? VXLAN, or Virtual eXtensible LAN, is essentially a tunneling mechanism used to provide isolated virtual Layer 2 (L2) segments that can span...
What is a VXLAN? VXLAN, or Virtual eXtensible LAN, is essentially a tunneling mechanism used to provide isolated virtual Layer 2 (L2) segments that can span multiple physical L2 segments. Since it is a tunneling mechanism it uses IP (IPv4 or IPv6) as its underlying network which means we can have isolated virtual L2 segments over networks connected by IP. This allows Virtual Machines (VM) to be in the same L2 segment even if they are located on systems that are in different...
What is a VXLAN? VXLAN, or Virtual eXtensible LAN, is essentially a tunneling mechanism used to provide isolated virtual Layer 2 (L2) segments that can span multiple physical L2 segments. Since it is...
Did you see our last Oracle Solaris 11.2 blog post aggregation? Did it leave you hungry for more? Did you think, "But there's no way there there could be any...
Did you see our last Oracle Solaris 11.2 blog post aggregation? Did it leave you hungry for more? Did you think, "But there's no way there there could be any more!" Because, now that 11.2's officially released... there's more. 44 more posts, to be exact. One notable development: there's now a blog dedicated to Oracle Solaris and OpenStack. Enjoy. General Oracle Solaris 11 - Engineered for Cloud - Eric Saxe Oracle Solaris 11.2 Available - Glynn Foster Oracle Solaris 11.2 and...
Did you see our last Oracle Solaris 11.2 blog post aggregation? Did it leave you hungry for more? Did you think, "But there's no way there there could be any more!" Because, now that...
We got there in the end, and today, Oracle Solaris 11.2 has been officially made available.This is the most significant release I've had the pleasure to work...
We got there in the end, and today, Oracle Solaris 11.2 has been officially made available.This is the most significant release I've had the pleasure to work on, and we've made huge strides in terms of overall usability, performance, and functionality. There are some really incredible base technologies included in this release - everything from independent kernel versions and patching with Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones, fast and portable clone and disaster recovery images with...
We got there in the end, and today, Oracle Solaris 11.2 has been officially made available.This is the most significant release I've had the pleasure to work on, and we've made huge strides in...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 is now in full release (aka "General Availability"), and that means there are even more great things for you to take advantage of. Although...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 is now in full release (aka "General Availability"), and that means there are even more great things for you to take advantage of. Although there’s been a lot written about it since the launch event in April, it’s worth taking a step back and considering what it all means.“Zero to Cloud” in minutesA lot of the press for this release has been about OpenStack, but how does it really help our customers? First off, OpenStack itself has some very compelling...
Oracle Solaris 11.2 is now in full release (aka "General Availability"), and that means there are even more great things for you to take advantage of. Although there’s been a lot written about it...
One of the really exciting features that was introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.2 is called Unified Archives. Unified Archives provide system cloning and disaster...
One of the really exciting features that was introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.2 is called Unified Archives. Unified Archives provide system cloning and disaster recovery capabilities for the platform. Built on the foundations of Oracle Solaris ZFS, an archive can quickly be taken on a live running system thanks to snapshot and cloning. A single archive can be created for a complete system that includes a number of virtual environments. Once captured, it can be deployed using...
One of the really exciting features that was introduced in Oracle Solaris 11.2 is called Unified Archives. Unified Archives provide system cloning and disaster recovery capabilities for the...
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...
