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Articles for the keywords: Solaris 9
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07 Jun 2011
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How to Use Automated Installation Instead of Flash Archive on Solaris 11 [24241]
New Multi-purpose Feature Enables both Install and Recovery Procedures
As more of the features of Oracle Solaris 11 Express come into use, the literature on best practices grows accordingly. One recent addition is "How to use Automated Installation instead of Flash Archive on Solaris," a blog post by Philip Torchinsky. Rather than using the option that Solaris 9 and 10 provided called "flash installation," -- essentially a disaster recovery feature with other uses -- the blog recommends installing Solaris on one server, called "master machine," making an archive containing all files installed on the master machine (so called "flash archive"), and then cloning it using flash installation option to other servers, called cloned machines. Like flash installation, Torchinsky writes, flash archive can be used for disaster recovery, as Solaris sysadmins generally know. It is possible to make a flash archive from an existing server's installation and use it to install the server with the same configuration in case of fatal disaster requiring complete system reinstall. The blog provides the code samples necessary for the described process.
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26 May 2011
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Oracle Completes Certification of Oracle RAC 11gR2 (with Clusterware) on Oracle Solaris 10 Containers ("Zones"). [24205]
Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Daasestabase and RAC Product Releases
Oracle has posted a tabular list of Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases that identifies those virtualization/partitioning technologies already supported and reaffirms the policies that each new OS and its complementary virtualization/partitioning technology, must be certified by Oracle and, further, that each new OS plus its virtualization/partitioning solution must be guaranteed by the appropriate hardware vendor to be backward compatible to the version listed in the tables cited in the above link.
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08 Apr 2011
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Live Patching of Oracle Solaris 9 [24075]
Without Having to Bring a Machine into Single-user Mode
The supposed need to put a system running Oracle Solaris 9 into single-user mode before applying cluster patches can be an nuisance. Veteran system administrator Joseph Gan has written a convenient procedure for using the Live Upgrade tools in Solaris to apply the latest cluster patch without needing to bring the machine into single-user mode. While he notes that the details in is procedure apply to Oracle Solaris on SPARC systems, he writes that the same procedure would work on x86 systems as well.
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01 Apr 2011
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Move your mess for less; Solaris Modernization [24057]
By Greg O'Connor, AppZero
Much has been written about applications that are stranded on
Solaris 2.6/7 OS and rare-as-unicorn hardware.
In fact, much of it has been written by me.
My trusty biz dev leader suggested that I take an ROI run on the topic in my next blog .... which is this one. But I just cant bring myself to do it.
Why? Because I cant see building an elaborate spread sheet showing how AppZero
is the best option, when the choice is a no brainer that my 7 year old son could make.
Lets play the model out and you tell me if a spreadsheet would help clarify the choices:
- Magical thinking
- Call in the cavalry
- Binary compatibility
- AppZero scoop and move
Read on for details and a link to a Webinar.
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11 Mar 2011
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Define and compare: Virtualization technologies for Solaris [23998]
By Greg O'Connor
"So, VMware ... separate hardware from OS = virtual server, right? Well, were like that but completely different we separate application from OS = virtualized application." Because were in the vast virtualization market space with a technology that is unique (patented), I am often asked to differentiate AppZeros server-side application virtualization from the rest of the pack. Especially in the Oracle/Sun/Solaris/SPARC context.
And especially since weve been promoting a Webinar series drawing a straight line from ancient Solaris 2.6 and 7 applications to execution on OS and hardware from this millennium. (We broke the marketing bank naming the webinars: "Virtualize-2-Modernize; Solaris 2.6 + 7 applications run unchanged on 9 + 10" and the follow-on "How to run Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 applications unchanged on Solaris 9 and 10")
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