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Top 11 Things You Can Do Now To Prepare For Oracle Solaris 11
Oracle Solaris 11 is the future of enterprise IT, that is now clear.Still, we need to wait a year until it is officially released. What can we do now? Well, quite a lot, it turns out. Even if the...
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Oracle Solaris 10 09/10: ZFS Highlights
The recently announced Oracle Solaris 10, 09/10 release introduced a number of significant upgrades to the ZFS file system.Ironically, Solaris 10 now comes with a higher ZFS pool version (19, at least)...
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My Personal Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis Cheat Sheet
Over time, you tend to learn a Solaris performance trick or two. Or three. Or more. That's cool, it's how stuff works: You learn, you do, you remember.Performance analysis and tuning is just like that:...
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Firesheep killed HTTP. Long Live HTTPS With Free SSL Acceleration, Courtesy...
Before we continue our little Performance Analysis Series, let's look at some current news:The Bad News: HTTP is dead. Get over it. The killer? It's called Firesheep, a free Firefox extension that...
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Top 7 Cool Things About the New Oracle Solaris 11 Express Release
At last, it is here: After lots of waiting, speculation, community self-help efforts, future directions, anticipation and more, we're now holding it in our hands: Oracle Solaris 11 Express is...
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My Favorite Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis Commands
A while ago, we discussed some performance analysis basics:Define what your problem is.Figure out your goal: What metric needs to be in what ballpark for you to declare victory?Analyze your system from...
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How to Save the World with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th Anniversary Video...
About 4 years ago, a few colleagues and myself got together and we created a short video about the coolness of two of the most innovative products from Sun of the last decade: ZFS and the X4500...
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Frequently Asked Questions About Flash Memory (SSDs) and ZFS
A few weeks ago, a reader asked me a couple of questions about SSDs and ZFS, hinting that this might be a good topic to write a blog post about.Sure enough, just last week, a couple of similar...
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How to Set Up a ZFS Root Pool Mirror in Oracle Solaris 11 Express
One of the first things to do when setting up a new system is to mirror your boot disk. This protects you against system disk failures: If one of the two mirrored boot disks fails, the system can...
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The Solaris Eco-System is Expanding
More than a while ago, I wrote about the birth of Illumos, a project that aims at substituting the last non-open-source bits from the OpenSolaris kernel with replacements, in order to create a 100%...
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ZFS: To Dedupe or not to Dedupe...
...that is the question.Ever since the introduction of deduplication into ZFS, users have been divided into two camps: One side enthusiastically adopted deduplication as a way to save storage space,...
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Solaris 11 Available for Early Adopters
Maybe I should write more frequently, though that would mean shorter, less elaborate articles. This is the first one of that kind. Let me know what you think!Recently, the Oracle Solaris 11 Early...
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Join the Solaris 11 Launch Party!
In about a week, on November 9th, 2011, the long-awaited final version of Solaris 11 will be launched. If you happen to be near New York that day (and assuming there'll be no power outages), you're...
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Solaris 11 Launch Blog Carnival Roundup
Solaris 11 is here!And together with the official launch activities, a lot of Oracle and non-Oracle bloggers contributed helpful and informative blog articles to help your datacenter go to eleven.Here...
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Introducing Sparse Encrypted ZFS Pools
Ever since I've been using a Mac, I enjoy using Sparse Encrypted Disk Images for a variety of tasks, for instance securely storing data that can be backed up somewhere else, say on a hosting server.In...
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