As certain Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) systems do not scale as well as others, users frequently need to migrate to more capacious solutions in order to meet their storage needs. In his blog post, Israel Pacheco "The Challenge -- Migrate HSM Systems" offers some suggestions for migrating large volumes of data from old to new HSM systems in a timely fashion.
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Patching Best Practices for the Solaris 10 OS (With Sam the Solaris Sysadmin)

This Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices Course Reference Guide is a supplement to the web-based training course WS-2700-S10: Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices. The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself. The guide is for use as a reference and refresher after completion of the online course.

BigAdmin Blog Responds to Feedback From LISA

"Feedback from LISA 09 in Baltimore" introduces some of the input from the BigAdmin BoF session at this year's Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference. See also the entries "The BigAdmin Blog on LISA Feedback: The Tower of Babel" (showing how you can send us more feedback) and "BigAdmin Navigation: Sections and Categories" (explanation of the BigAdmin site's structure).

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• Sun.com: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment
• NFS Boot vs. SAN Boot
• Rainbow Falls and FMA
• Using busstat to Monitor Performance Counters
• Sun Power Calculators: Eco Innovation
• Using Sun QFS File System in a Disaster Recovery Setup
• What to do After Migrating from UFS to ZFS

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