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Archived Sun SysAdmin Articles
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28 Jul 2008
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Solaris iSCSI CHAP and RADIUS Configuration - FAQ [20304]
Blog Manages to Cover Pretty Nearly the Entire Gamut
The wide ranging collection of FAQs on how to configure the CHAP and RADIUS security features on Solaris iSCSI pulls together some well-known and not-so well-known information on the subject. While the blog is relatively comprehensive on its announced subject, it does not claim to be the complete FAQ on other aspects of iSCSI configuration.
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28 Jul 2008
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White Paper: Disaster Recovery with Solaris Cluster [20315]
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in a Single Package
The white paper "Disaster Recovery with Solaris Cluster" explores how Solaris Cluster can help organizations recover quickly from a disaster by enabling application and data access continuity across unlimited distances.
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28 Jul 2008
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Managing Solaris Containers With Sun xVM Ops Center [20327]
Making Life Easier for Sys Admins
This blueprint describes how system administrators can use Sun xVM Ops Center to manage systems that are installed with Solaris Containers. It provides an overview of the software and technology used and includes pointers to additional information.
The technology described in this blueprint covers Solaris Containers, Sun xVM Ops Center software, and JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) templates.
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18 Jul 2008
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Configuring Sun Storage J4000 Arrays and the ZFS File System in Ten Minutes [20324]
ZFS Article by Dominic Kay
In a July 2008 article by Dominic Kay, “Configuring J4000 and ZFS in Ten Minutes”, you can see how powerful the combination of low cost JBODs and ZFS can be. Dominic shows how easy it is have ZFS handle the management of two arrays each containing 12 x 136.72 GB disks - approximately 3.2 TB.
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16 Jul 2008
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Solaris Containers: An Alternative to Type-1 Hypervisors [20252]
99% of Applications Run Just Fine in Non-global Zones
Using lightweight Solaris Containers rather than taking the hypervisor route enables Solaris OS users to deploy applications safely without having to install, license and manage multiple complete OS stacks, particularly when there is no need to support other OS types on a given server. This is the recommendation in Michael O'Connor's blog "Are You in the Zone?" An initial caution suggests the use of a qualification process to identify those applications that are unhappy running in a non-global zone.
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14 Jul 2008
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Less known Solaris Features Offers More Tips, Tutorials [19976]
Joerg Moellenkamp on Crash & Core Dumps and On Passwords
Joerg Moellenkamp has written a pair of blogs on some of the less well known features of the Solaris OS. In the first he considers an essential feature of an operating system, which is that it have some mechanisms to stop a process or the complete kernel immediately without allowing the system to write anything back to disk and thus manifesting the corrupted state. In the grimmest possible language, he writes, "This tutorial will cover the most important concepts surrounding the last life signs of a system or an application." In the second blog, "On Passwords," Moellenkamp argues for the importance of robust passwords and advises sys admins to ensure their use.
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14 Jul 2008
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Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit [20258]
Less Known Solaris Features by Joerg Moellenkamp
When a developer has dozens of servers that need operating systems installed, Solaris can be a helpful tool in kneading human error out of the configuration equation. There are features that make it so you can let a computer take over the job, making sure that every system has exactly the same operating system configuration.
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07 Jul 2008
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Amazon Simple Storage Service, Elastic Compute Cloud and OpenSolaris [20237]
ZFS snapshots to and from Amazon S3
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a "storage for the Internet". A web services interface can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Sun and Amazon are collaborating to offer OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2. The two supported releases are OpenSolaris OS 2008.05 and Solaris Express Community Edition.
Saving and Restoring ZFS Snapshots to and from Amazon S3.
Sean O’Dell has posted a
blog entry that shows how to use ZFS snapshots to save and restore filesystems from one Solaris EC2 instance to another.
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07 Jul 2008
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A Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools, Part I [20243]
Creating, Exporting, Importing Pools
Sun Technology for Partners provides a three-part hands-on tutorial that introduces readers to ZFS Pools. Part I, summarized here, involves "Getting Started (Pool Creation, Export, Import)." One of the virtues of this tutorial is that it approaches the subject so as to be useful to users with limited resources. Only two extra components are involved: a single 7-port USB 2.0 hub and six 1GB USB 2.0 memory sticks.
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