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That was an amazing experience, and was really great meet those people that i just talk by email. First was the OHAC Summit, where we had excellent presentations, and the keynote 'The Network is the Cluster' by Dr. David Cheriton (Stanford University), and the 'High Availability: Today and Tomorrow' discussion ...
Hello there... one of the objectives of the OpenSolaris distro, is to make easy the platform's adoption for the GNU/Linux users. I think one thing that every user does when facing a new operating system is execute a simple command like: 'ls /'. And some other 'ls' to try to ...
As you know (or not ;), i have a little project to help handle LDAP authentication in GNU/Linux systems (somebody wants to help port it to OpenSolaris?), and a co-worker (Ernani), did a patch to adapt the code for the new ldap routines (ldap_init/initialize, etc). He give me his ...
Ok, sometime ago i did this post about globo.com using open source softwares, and the phrase 'We are moving from Oracle to MySQL“, did create some comments on my blog like this. Now i did update that post with the presentation's video (FULL), so you can watch the whole ...
Today i did write my first project proposal on the OpenSolaris (OHAC community). The link for the proposal is here, and i would like to read your comments about it. If you don't know what i'm talking about, i have a little agent to provide ZFS/NFS HA using NON-shared ...
No, it's not my phrase, but i think it resumes the sysadmin's work... Actually that phrase is a citation from Seu Jorge, talking about a theater school where the motto was the title of this post. Seu Jorge is a singer, song writer, actor, and soundtrack composer. You can see ...
As you know, i'm doing some tests with that hardware, and these days i had some troubles mapping SAN disks for it...
But Solaris has a lot of tools to debug and fix that kind of problems. The first command i did use was:
# fcinfo hba-port
HBA Port WWN: xxxx...
...
HBA Port WWN: ...
The Solaris Operating System was designed to be robust and have a great focus on Resource management. So, there are many (simple and complex) tools, that provide invaluable information about the system resources, as well as powerfull tools to manage them.
One of the simple tools is 'psrinfo'. The ...
Ok, that is not big deal, but for future reference is good concentrate things here...
If you don't know what is orca, you can go here.
I will list here just the components we need to setup this usefull tool on solaris 10, take a look:
First, two ...
Finally i did receive the two books that i did buy from amazon.com: Solaris Internals (second edition) and Solaris Performance and Tools. The first edition of Solaris Internals, i did read while at university (UNISINOS), but i had not much access to Solaris environment that time, but the concepts of ...