pensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Cc: unixcons...@yahoo.com
Sent: Mon, March 21, 2011 11:39:09 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Graphic cards for SPARC
On 03/21/11 02:59 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The two graphics card options you should look at are the XVR-300 and XVR-2500
>
Hi,
The two graphics card options you should look at are the XVR-300 and XVR-2500
for SPARC. All other graphics cards are EOL and don't have support in the Xorg
consolidation in OpenSolaris and Solaris 11. It would be nice if there were
some
Nvidia cards that worked on SPARC, since they work s
There is also the AST tool set that merges the SYSV/POSIX and GNU
functionality.
I believe there is a IPS package in the opensolaris.org repo.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: htt
Honestly, with ZFS there's no point in using a RAID controller.
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E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com
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Solaris 11 Express is free for personal use. You only need to pay for it when
you're using it in production.
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Octave J. Orgeron
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Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
E-Mail
Just do this:
cfgadm -c configure c11
That should detect any disk on the controller. Look in your /var/adm/messages
for any errors.
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Octave J. Orgeron
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Web: http://unixco
And on new Oracle gear it's 8% of the final price after discounts for your
support contract. To me it looks like a way to push clients to buy new gear and
get rid of their legacy gear. I think that was the thing that really hurt Sun,
very little incentive to buy new gear when things lasts 7-10 y
I haven't had to call support yet for anything. But I would recommend
escalating
to your Oracle account rep. If it's a mission critical server and on premium
support, I'd go as far as escalating up to the VP that covers your region.
Every
time there's a change in any tech support organization,
My Logitech mouse works fine on my S11 box. Try plugging it into different USB
ports. Otherwise, not sure why it wouldn't be working.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixco
It's probably a good idea to do both. That way the zone has enough free memory
for any additional software or non-oracle related software/services that are
running. So if your database needs 8GBs of shared memory, you could set the
max-shm-memory to 4GB and the max-shm-ids to 2. Then set the max
I think there is a help button where you can submit issues with your login and
they can fix it. It happened to me when they started to transition things into
Oracle.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect
That's how I read it too. But hey, if the AI install enables network installs
and is designed for that and released under the same license, then what's the
issue with building a bunch of non-production systems from it?
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I totally agree. Sun was always being too nice and passive with customers.
Great
when you needed advice and a solution that works. Bad when you're up against
IBM
and HP in bidding wars. Oracle while being "all business", is not a bad thing.
It means they'll put the investment in the technology
Honestly, I think people are reading too much into the License and looking for
reasons to cry wolf. In my discussions with Oracle, the license basically
states
that if you want to use it in production, you need a support contract.
Otherwise
it's free for use by developers, enthusiasts, and eva
What would be ideal is for Oracle to synchronize the Xen implementation and
functionality in Oracle VM on Linux with Solaris 11 on x86. That way customers
have a choice on where to run the Xen hypervisor.
Either that, or take VirtualBox and elevate it to a type 1 hypervisor ontop of
Solaris 1
LISA is a conference. Not sure how TM/2 is related to the topic.
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AIX folks are rather rare to run into. In the US, you'll find more AIX in the
north mid-west and east coast. In those cases, a lot of them are insurance,
manufacturing, or financial services (getting rare in FS these days though).
Most shops that have AIX are really legacy mainframe shops that h
You have to consider the capabilities of the SPARC T3-1 server if you're
comparing it to an x86 box. First off you're getting a CMT CPU with 16 cores
with 8 threads each, giving you 128 hardware threads to work with, per SPARC T3
CPU. Each of those cores also has a floating point engine and a cr
Speaking as someone who has worked extensively in the financial services world,
I can tell you that performance is key. You'd be surprised at how many
mid-range
to high-end SPARC servers are in banks today. And I'm not talking about E10ks,
I'm talking about 6900-25Ks and M5000-M9000s. A lot of
Or you can file a bug and wait until Solaris 11 Express to push for a fix. It's
not like someone would fix your bugs right away with the way things were before
Oracle. I still have bugs filed from years ago that haven't been fixed in ON.
Like any other OS, if you want your bug fixed, it has to
I really don't think this kind of response is appropriate or fair to anyone.
OpenSolaris is not dead, it's just that we won't be getting code drops until
there are official Solaris releases and Oracle won't be making Indiana builds
anymore. So is it really dead? No, we just don't get nightly dro
ic are used by cloud providers.
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E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com
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- Original Message ----
From: Luke
s.org; xen-disc...@opensolaris.org
Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 5:56:58 AM
Subject: Re: [xen-discuss] [osol-discuss] XEN on OpenIndiana
On 14/10/2010 18:24, Octave Orgeron wrote:
> Even Red Hat has
> realized this and are pushing their KVM agenda.
RH are pushing KVM because they spent $107
Well I don't think Xen is a good enough hypervisor anyways. I would rather see
Oracle come up with something better. There are too many Xen implementations
and
not enough features to differentiate them other than GUI's. Even Red Hat has
realized this and are pushing their KVM agenda. And sadly
Personally, I think it's a mistake for Oracle to use Linux instead of Solaris
as
the OS in their VM Server for x86 product. There are clear advantages to using
Solaris + ZFS + COMSTAR + Crossbow + everything else! It would really help
Oracle to differentiate itself from Citrix, Red Hat, and Nov
Yeah it was my hope back in those days that Sun would buy out PostgreSQL
instead
of MySQL. And totally agree on MySQL being more developer focused than actually
database focused.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualizat
Hi,
SunMC is pretty much EOL and the replacement is Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops
Center. However, if you like SunMC, you can get the equiv from the folks who
wrote the monitoring components:
http://www.halcyoninc.com/
They wrote the monitoring components and sell their own stand-alone product
Message
From: Robert Milkowski
To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Sun, October 3, 2010 2:36:05 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express
On 02/10/2010 19:11, Octave Orgeron wrote:
> At the end of the day, companies that use Linux in production pay Red Hat and
>
What I think would be valuable is perhaps to have the OpenSolaris name and
trademark transferred to a foundation that will consist of community elected
folks to manage a OpenSolaris standard that enforces compliance around the
specifications for binary, API, etc compatibility. That would include
Hi Joerg,
I understand what you're saying. At the same time, the base code is out there
for anyone to use. And Oracle has promised to do code drops after official
releases. So we'll get a code drop when Solaris 11 comes out and everyone can
pick and choose what they want to integrate with their
Exactly what my discussion was like. They thought it was clear enough in the
license because of the "production use" clause. So hopefully, they'll update
the
OTN license and make it clear that it's free for personal or hobbyist use. And
realistically, having the source code is nice and all, but
Hi,
Well OpenSolaris 2009.06 has production "pay-for" support. I would be surprised
if there isn't an upgrade path to Solaris 11 Express which I think Oracle will
also provide support for. So for production environments, it's still an
option..
a bleeding edge option. The major issue I see righ
Yeah, while I was at OOW, I talked to the product manager for Solaris who told
me that the source code will be released when there is an official release of
Solaris 11. So basically, we have to wait until it's all baked in before a code
drop. So the only way we'll get to see new features is thro
As sad as it is to see people leave the Solaris Kernel development team, you
have to remember that there are a lot of other engineers in that team. People
always leave when there is an acquisition and it's hard to hold onto folks. I
was sad with Richard McDougall left Sun for VMware. But Solaris
Hi,
Contrary to popular believe there are still some major differences between
OpenOffice and the StarOffice code base. StarOffice has closed source bits
around MS Office translation and printer support that are absent in OpenOffice.
I've found that StarOffice is better with MS compatibility th
I seriously doubt that IBM will toss its POWER division out the door. They make
too much money from it through software and support sales for Linux, AIX,
AS/400, and MVS/VSE/VM. It's the base of their money making software and
services. Sure they make a ton more money from their Global Services
Hi,
I really think people like you are reading too much into the license and over
reacting. So Oracle is going to give Solaris, Solaris Express, etc away for
free
for non-Production use. They say things like it's free for development,
testing,
etc. Why is this not flexible enough? Hell, just
So write some shell scripts, compile some software, test some software. That
should be more than enough to meet the requirements;)
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Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixconso
I believe that was the crux of the situation, Sun did find prior art from a
whitepaper or presentation that pre-dates WAFL. I think if they had not
settled,
NetApp would have been in a ton more trouble than Sun Oracle.
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Yeah, I heard rumors about what the ROCK servers would have been capable of
doing. It's a shame it didn't make it to market. But I would assume that by the
time that could have gotten out of the door, UltraSPARC-T3 or the next SPARC64
would have out performed it. Speaking of Infiniband, I still
There was a solution for the Sun Fire 6800-25k servers that allowed you to do
this. The name escapes me, but I know Sun had a course for it and sold it to
several universities and of course the US government. Basically it consisted of
some HBA's and a custom switch. Back in the E10k and Exx00 da
Sadly, all OS vendors list big name companies as customers. Unfortunately, none
of them release installation counts. Speaking as someone who has worked in the
financial services industry and done consulting over the years, most fortune
500
companies have a little bit of everything. So just beca
FYI, 256 sockets is nothing. For years universities and governments have linked
E15k/E25ks together into single image servers, and you can put 72 CPU's in each
of those servers. Same thing for the Fujitsu PrimePower 1500/2500. SPARC and
Solaris have had this scaling capability for ages. The issu
Yeah, Oracle has shift back and forth between Solaris x86 and Linux for
development over the past 5 years. So with Oracle Solaris and OEL, they'll have
to support both equally.
As for AIX, they are definitely spending money on developing it. Solaris 10 was
a huge wake up call for IBM and they
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From: Fabio Kaminski
To: Octave Orgeron
Cc: usafverteran ; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Mon, September 6, 2010 11:59:17 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discus
If you guys pay attention to what Larry has stated, Solaris is the number 1
platform used by their customers, Linux is number 2. So that means a good chunk
of that 370,000 customer base is already on Solaris. So it's really an easy win
for Oracle to push more Solaris on that customer base.
An
Totally agree! I see more organizations struggling with Linux than they do with
Solaris or AIX. You get what you pay for!
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixconsole.blogsp
I would also argue that Solaris still has a strong presence in the enterprise
space. There are plenty of tasks that are not suited to the relatively small
foot-print of x86 equipment and require big-iron. Even Oracle RAC
implementations that go the Linux route eventually find themselves with sca
Yeah as much as Linux folks believe Red Hat is their friend and giving
everything away for free, you are sadly mistaken. Red Hat has always been about
making money from Linux, make no mistake about it. And seeing how Novell is
having issues, it's very likely that Red Hat will continue to be the
Well considering how Google and other companies such as VMware tend to trample
over open-source software and monkey about with it, I'm not surprised that
Oracle is suing Google over Android. It's funny how no one complained about Sun
suing Microsoft over Java, but now that it's Oracle suing Goog
Of course the question then becomes where does the image for this WPAR come
from and is it customizable. As of yet, I haven't seen any AIX shops make use
of this. Then again, if memory serves, IBM bought out a company that was
selling the WPAR feature as an add-on product, so it's not really a n
This is very true. At the same time there has to be a fine balance between
operations and engineering support. Products should be easy enough for
operations to get the day-to-day work accomplished, but have enough flexibility
and control for experts to get under the hood for tuning and troublesh
Speaking from an HPC perspective, it is interesting how the market shifted
years ago. I remember when most HPC shops were buy Alphas, SGI's, and Crays
with distaste for x86. While those platforms were more expensive, the reality
is that they took up less space and complexity. For example, 5 x qu
Hi,
I don't think people should fly off the handle and think that Solaris or AIX
are going away. The Gartner and IDC numbers about about units sold in a
quarter. The reality is that even with the UltraSPARC T-Series servers, you
don't have to buy as many servers as you use to in order to get th
Yeah, you would think atleast the recommended patch clusters would be available
for free, but alas no. Definitely a big blow for many users and customers.
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Octave J. Orgeron
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Hi,
I've noticed that my while my Ultra 20 is a lot faster on graphics rendering,
no surprise with an Nvidia GeForce 8400 card, that with the original
single-core Opteron chip it was slower at multi-tasking than my SB 2000. I had
to upgrade it to a 2.4Ghz dual-core Opteron before it became snap
Hi Everyone,
I've complained about the same issues before. I understand the need to move
onto Xorg and drop Xsun. At the same time, I understand that Sun really isn't
in the SPARC workstation business anymore and is hoping that people will buy a
Intel PC from them for running Solaris 10 or Open
Hi,
This has to do with how you connect to the control domain. You are escaping out
of the session several levels up. You can change the escape sequence, so that
this does not happen. Either in your ssh session or when connecting to the
console with the telnet command.
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I'd like to help out where possible. There are definitely use cases that the
sysadmin community could help out with. There has been a lot of discussion
lately about installation, configuration, and management of opensolaris. In the
LDoms community, we could also get involved.
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Yup, I opened a bug on this exact issue.. 10543. It makes no sense to be unable
to do that with the "create-client" subcommand to installadm.
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Web: http:
And who's going to go run around with this USB stick in a data center? Doesn't
sound like a realistic solution.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
E-M
Totally agree Casper! The power of Jumpstart has enabled customers to deploy
servers from scratch with little to no manual configuration after doing a "boot
net -install". AI has to be as flexible and hopefully easier to configure by
learning from what customers do with Jumpstart (take a look at
This is something that should be configurable globally and when an account is
created. Globally in cases where it's required for applications (think
monitoring software, commercial apps, etc.). That should be done with a command
like the netservices and through an AI variable for network install
ctave
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- Original Message
From: Dave Miner
To: Octave Orgero
When MAC addresses are assigned, LDM will attempt to prob the network to make
sure there isn't a MAC conflict. The key here is that the primary domain has to
be connected and plumbed to the networks in question. I believe there is a
section in the LDoms Admin guide that mentions this briefly.
h
Agreed. It should be an installation option. Or a flag for useradd to use the
GNU or Solaris profiles from /etc/skel.
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- Original Message
From: Dave Miner
To: Octave Orgeron
Cc: Shawn Walker ; b...@mirrorshades.net;
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Wedn
J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
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- Original Message
From: Glynn Foster
To: Octave Orgeron
Cc: Peter Tribble ; G
With the big diff being that Amazon probably does not use AI to create new
instances. They probably just clone a pre-made image. A little different from a
typical environment.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization
ot there and
not going to make Sun or Oracle any money.
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- Origin
It does bring up the big question.. how will customers migrate from S10 to
OpenSolaris? Or is it a "tough luck" situation and customers have to do a
painfully manual upgrade? I mean if SVR4 pkgs go away, that kinda leaves
Solaris on a isolated island. There are plenty of things that still need
Yup, ~80% of their customers are on Solaris. I think that pretty much settles
it when you think about it. Oracle is in business to make money, not pander to
the Linux folks. If their paying customers are on Solaris and they own it, it's
the platform of choice, simple as that. Oracle will make m
It is extremely annoying that journalistic hacks attack something they know
nothing about. I was considering putting a blog post out about it, but decided
not to in the end as it's just a waste of time and Ben already go there before
me:)
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The author of that article at ComputerWorld is often wrong about things. He
really thought that Oracle would buy Red Hat and that IBM would buy Sun. If I
had to get my crystal ball out, I think the cards are really stacked against
"Unbreakable Linux" as its ties to Red Hat are not really in the
Having dealt with the x86 vs SPARC debate in e-commerce and financial
environments, I would say that the T-Series is priced well against x86 gear
when you look at the TCO/ROI and the scalability in threads, memory, and I/O.
You would be surprised how many large name-brand sites are running on T
Yeah, this kinda goes back to my theory that UltraSPARC-KT probably performs
better than ROCK and will have a better price point.
As for software, most of the legacy apps that companies created or use are
indeed garbage and incapable of taking advantage of multi-core or
multi-threaded process
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- Original Message
From: ken mays
To: Anon Y Mous ; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org;
Octave Orgeron
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 11:18:48 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] SPARC Rock is dead,
--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Octave Orgeron wrote:
> From: Octave Orgeron
> Subje
Well I think there are some possibilities to consider as reasons for ROCK to be
canceled:
* The 8-core SPARC64 VIIIfx "Venus" processor out-performs ROCK
by a significant amount, thusly making it impractical to move forward
with ROCK.
* The 16-core UltraSPARC-KT "Niagara 3" proc
Well remember it's just rumor and speculation at this point. ROCK obviously has
features that would be of huge interest to Oracle and to customers looking to
consolidate servers and scale up. I would rather assume that the SuperNova
servers that the ROCK processor is designed for probably need
No prob.
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Yes it is important to create VSWs with the real MAC of the underlining NIC
interface. The VNETs can be automatically assigned MACs as LDM will ensure
there are no duplicates on the network the VSW is connected to.
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O
Make sure your /etc/ethers and rarp are configured to handle requests for the
0:14:4f:f9:da:ab mac address. Your main issue is that I don't believe dge is a
GLDv3 compliant NIC that will work with LDoms. Try using the e1000g onboard
nics instead. Lastly, I would use LDoms 1.1 with the lastest f
Technically, i386 is correct. It's the base processor ISA architecture. Most
software is still 32 bit, so backwards compatibility is key, as a result the
lowest common denominator on the x64/x68 platform is i386. This is the same
result as you would expect on SPARC where uname -p will report "s
Well it's a definite turn of events, but the important thing is that IBM and HP
didn't get their hands on Sun. An interesting read is this:
http://www.oracle.com/sun/sun-general-presentation.pdf
Pulled some good points from it on my blog.
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Hopefully, it's just more FUD from Wall St.. However the troubling thing is
that Sun has not responded to any of the rumors and it's worrying customers and
investors alike. If Sun does not respond soon, I fear that the competition will
escalate this to a full blown customer meltdown. I hope tha
It's good.. too bad it was never on TV from what I can tell. Sun really needs
to beef up on public image.. TV commercials would be ideal.
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://u
Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large operating expenses,
headcount, and poor sales that continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To
make matters worse, in this economy most businesses are dependent on credit for
doing things like pay-roll as the income can vary each month. Wit
I would say that is a major defect. Have you filed a bug against it yet?
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Hi,
Well as they say, it takes all kinds:) HP-UX is definitely a different beast
and 11i hasn't significantly changed over the years other than hardware support
and bug fixes. AIX on the other hand is a bit more bizarre with things like
ODM, SMIT, and the command line tools. However, I would p
Very true. Sun has not really spent much money in the way of advertising
Solaris or OpenSolaris. Sadly, I see more ads for Java than I do for other Sun
products and that just doesn't make much sense. Sun should be advertising it
like crazy. The fact that Toshiba is selling a laptop with OpenSol
I do agree that Sun and the US would be better served by Sun getting assistance
from the US government. And that money should go directly into marketing,
sales, getting channel partners up to speed, and keeping engineering teams
intact (and bring back those that were lost). Then Sun should swif
It's not over. But if the rumors are correct, there are two movements in the
board of directors. One led by Schwartz who believes Sun should sell and the
other led by McNealy who doesn't. I'll side with McNealy for keeping Sun
independent. Sun needs strong and visionary leadership to get out of
Ah yes, donut day:) Those were good times back at Sun. There were a lot of fun
perks back then and even though I've moved on in my career, it's still the only
place I've worked and had my own office. I remember helping to build out the
new San Jose campus and moving our infrastructure to new ge
Thank goodness! I'm glad the deal broke down and I hope the folks at Sun behind
it are sacked in the coming weeks. This was a huge embarrassment and shows how
the management was failing to do the right thing and get Sun into gear. Selling
Sun off is just the wrong direction. I hope this damages
I totally agree. Selling out to IBM is a huge mistake on soo many levels. I
encourage people to sign my petition ASAP and pass along the link to fellow
supporters of help keeping Sun independent:
http://www.petitiononline.com/smi09/petition.html
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I don't mean to stir up any flame wars or for this to be spam. I setup a
petition for people to sign to show support for Sun staying independent:
http://www.petitiononline.com/smi09/petition.html
I just ask that people show their support for Sun taking the high-road and
working through these t
Hi Brian,
Thank you for pointing this out and articulating it well. This is the kind of
leadership that's missing with OpenSolaris right now. I don't think the
community as whole really understands what the direction, standards, etc. are
that we are trying to build upon. That makes it harder to
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- Original Message
From: Mika Borner
To: Octave Orgeron
Cc: david.co...@sun.com; I. Szczesniak ; Open Solaris
; ast-users ;
indiana-disc...@opensolaris.org
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:03:12 PM
Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu ch
One of the things that does kinda concern me here is that by just jumping on
the GNU bandwagon and hoping for a smooth ride is a bit backward. I think most
people who have worked on multiple OS's know that the GNU tools do have their
issues and conflicts. Ultimately, if Sun wants to improve thos
drich Maney
To: Octave Orgeron
Cc: david.co...@sun.com; solarg ; Open Solaris
; indiana-disc...@opensolaris.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:39:40 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?
I agree with one caveat: the native fully supported and integ
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