Using the Solaris 10 Applications Library

The Solaris 10 Applications Library has thousands of apps for SPARC and x86/x64 platforms (currently, it shows over 11,000 applications). This tip describes how to find applications that run on the Solaris 10 OS, with examples of how to search for an application and how to submit an application to the library.

Community Submission: Bare-Metal Restore of x86 Server Running the Solaris 10 OS With a ZFS Root File System

This BigAdmin community-submitted article describes how to restore the Solaris 10 Operating System on x86 platforms in a bare-metal scenario, using Veritas NetBackup by Symantec. In this setup, a ZFS root file system was used on the original system disk.

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In the Sun BluePrints Online document "Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup," Dean Halbeisen in Sun's Enterprise Storage takes readers through a reference architecture consisting of Symantec NetBackup software, Sun CoolThreads servers and the Solaris Operating System. A key objective was to achieve a competitive price/performance metric for the NetBackup solution. Another goal was to determine performance and sizing characteristics of the proposed architecture.