http://sun.systemnews.com Software http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/5/sw/20113 If you're looking for Solaris ACLs, you might want to have a glance at Ben Rockwood's blog on the subject of when to use POSIX and when to use NFSv4 in your search. Ben's quick summary is: There are TWO types of file ACL's in Solaris: POSIX and NFSv4 NFSv4 ACL's are very granular and powerful ACL's are a pain NFSv3 ACL support (POSIX) does not work when sharing a ZFS filesystem; Use NFSv4 GUI's are an ACL's best friend, sad but true Avoid them if you can, but if/when you need them, they are there Read on for more details. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/5/sw/20330 For secure and cost effective communication/collaboration capabilities, the Sun Java Communications Suite 6 is the program for a wide variety of businesses to pursue. Some of the ways the Suite 6 can bring a company to the next level of professional computing is by utilizing the new programs communication features. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/4/sw/20092 In March, Sun released a public support statement that said Sun supports middleware products on a variety of virtualization technologies. A June update from Sun clarifies which Sun Java System products are supported with the following virtualization products and features : Sun Logical Domains (LDoms) Solaris 10 Containers and Zones Solaris 8 Containers Sun xVM Server VMware ESX Server 3 http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/4/sw/20187 Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 Early Access 2 is a pre-release version of Open MPI 1.3 with the latest bug fixes and new features including, Linux support, DTrace providers for MPI, MPI support for Mellanox ConnectX HCAs, MPI profiling with VampirTrace, MPI profiling with PERUSE and support for C++ applications built with libstlport4. This is the first release to support Linux. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/sw/20084 The 293-page API specification for Logical Domains (LDoms) and the SPARC hypervisor is now available from opensparc.net. The specification details the UltraSPARC virtual machine environment together with the calling conventions and detailed specifications of the virtual machine interfaces provided to a LDom. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/sw/20104 Upgrading to Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.3 from 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 is the subject of Jason Beloro's blog, which provides a step-by-step how-to, offering clarifications to the information available in the Administration Guide. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/sw/20146 The news is that "Snow Leopard," also known as the Mac OS X v10.6, will support the Solaris ZFS file system when it is released in about a year's time. Apple's Web site is hosting the announcement: "For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as storage pooling, data redundancy, automatic error correction, dynamic volume expansion, and snapshots." http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/1/sw/19975 The Sun BluePrints Online paper by Michael Rosenthal and Stefan Schmitz-Homberg examines the new Sun architecture for providing software as a service. Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software delivers applications and full desktop environments to clients using a server-based computing model. The brains of the solution reside in the datacenter; Web browsers running on Sun Ray ultra-thin clients, on PCs or on mobile devices give users access to those services and applications running in the datacenter. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/1/sw/19905 So you still think Linux is less expensive for Web infrastructure than the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)? Well, Sun's Robin Goldfarb Wilensky has a few basic points she'd like you to consider. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/123/4/sw/20010 Get support for the UltraSPARC T2 Plus, UltraSPARC T2 and UltraSPARC T1-based servers in the latest download of Logical Domains (LDoms) version 1.0.3, which also offers a number of virtual I/O enhancements with the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System (Solaris OS). It includes the optional LDoms Systems Management Tools: LDoms Management Information Base, libvirt for LDoms and LDoms Browser User Interface.