System News for Sun Users - The Blog

Short Items of Interest for Solaris Users

• DTrace Quick Start Guide
• ZFS: Changing The Way You Look at Storage
• Tuning ZFS for Sun Storage F5100 Array
• ZFS Deduplication Features in PSARC
• pkgin and 5,000 Packages for Solaris 10/x86
• Multiple LDom vdisks With the Same Backend
• Installing Native and Branded Zones
• Automated Backups With Inserted USB Disk/Memory Drive
• Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Move From Solaris 8

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From Solaris 8 Brand to Solaris 9 Brand, and Now Native P2V

Physical-to-Virtual or p2v, should make life easier for users who need to migrate their Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 OS based systems into a zone on Solaris 10. Jerry Jelinek’s blog explains how users can create an image of an existing system using a flash archive, cpio archive, a UFS dump, or even just a file system image that is accessible over NFS, and then install the zone using that image. There is no explicit p2v tool one needs to run, Jelinek writes, because behind the scenes, the zone installation process does all of the work to make sure the Solaris 8 image runs correctly inside of the zone.

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Solaris 10 OS with Trusted Extensions Feature Recommended Replacement

May 1, 2009 is the last order date for the Trusted Solaris 8 software as the 7/03 and 2/04 releases reach their end of life. The last ship date for the software is July 31, 2009, with the end of service life date set for the same day in the year 2014. The suggested replacement product is the Solaris 10 OS which comes with Trusted Extensions.

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