Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Marc Hamilton wrote On 04/10/07 06:16,: Hi, I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, including OpenSolaris marketing. The first t

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-11 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > wrote: > > > CentOS not being anything like the official > Solaris > > release, I beg to differ. It is essentially what > you > > can get with RHEL sans Redhat trademarks and > direct > > Redhat suppo

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: CentOS not being anything like the official Solaris release, I beg to differ. It is essentially what you can get with RHEL sans Redhat trademarks and direct Redhat support. Then there is Ubuntu. Linux may not be carrier grade but what it c

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: There was no backup server before the Open Solaris box. So, are you saying you have no experience with running a backup server before this install? I would imagine it would be hard to evaluate an operating system properly in that case.

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> > Oh, FYI, there are a lot of companies/admins out > there > > that do not subscribe to Redhat support. If Sun > > Microsystems has no interest in this field then I > > guess the whole packaging/server maintenance for > Open > > Solaris is a moot point and I would be sorry that > I > > raised th

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Shawn Walker
On 10/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Plugging in card, turning on box and then plugging > in > > the sata drives and running cfgadm twice and then > a > > zpool command without any 'echo "magic" > > /proc/scsi' > > as you do on Linux was a really nice experience

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Doug Scott
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: I guess in this regard the installers available are better on Linux since they support installing on raid arrays and when they did not such as in the RH9 days, you could still hit the console during the partitioning section and manually create what raid arrays y

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > wrote: > > > Great, made your day then. > > Not really, I use Solaris/OpenSolaris as my primary > operating system. Heh, i'd love to get centos 4 off my home box. i guess i will just look out for a

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: regarding hardware raid...when will 3ware come to Solaris? Are those guys not at all interested? I've just sent a message to the product manager and am trying to get him to come over here and possibly create a community for 3ware. Do y

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: Great, made your day then. Not really, I use Solaris/OpenSolaris as my primary operating system. This backup server was Open Solaris from the start since I wanted to give Open Solaris a shot as there is no iscsi target support included

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> > Plugging in card, turning on box and then plugging > in > > the sata drives and running cfgadm twice and then > a > > zpool command without any 'echo "magic" > > /proc/scsi' > > as you do on Linux was a really nice experience. > At > > least this is what you have to do with hotswap > stuff > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan > wrote: > > > Alan, maybe Nexenta is not quite considered Open > > Solaris but I had that installed and updated to > > 'elatte' with the b55 kernel/ON but then I had to > wipe > > it out with Solaris E

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: Alan, maybe Nexenta is not quite considered Open Solaris but I had that installed and updated to 'elatte' with the b55 kernel/ON but then I had to wipe it out with Solaris Express b59 to get the latest iscsi-target code that is supposed to

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> I await the day that you'll actually install > Solaris/OpenSolaris. Alan, maybe Nexenta is not quite considered Open Solaris but I had that installed and updated to 'elatte' with the b55 kernel/ON but then I had to wipe it out with Solaris Express b59 to get the latest iscsi-target code that is

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-10 Thread duboff
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: Wonderful. I await the day when Solaris techs will be numerous as MCSEs and LPI guys, Solaris professionals as many as RHCEs and (Open) Solaris is something that a user knows. I await the day that you'll actually install Solaris/OpenSolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-09 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> While it is only my first day in the new job, I can > already tell you > there is a tremendous amount of executive attention > at Sun focused on > ensuring the OpenSolaris community is successful. > Among many other > things, one of my priorities is to ensure we bring > our own Solaris 10 >

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
Marc Hamilton wrote: Hi, I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, including OpenSolaris marketing. The first thing I want to do is

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hi, > I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you > might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but > starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, > including OpenSolaris marketing. The first thing I want to do is listen > to the

[osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-09 Thread Marc Hamilton
Hi, I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, including OpenSolaris marketing. The first thing I want to do is listen to the OpenSol