Short Items of Interest to Solaris Users
Wiki Highlights Key Technologies for Running Oracle
Sun and some of its engineers from Performance Technologies are putting together a list of Sun technologies that enhance the performance, monitoring and tuning of the Oracle database on Sun servers. Grouped in categories entitled: Early Innovations, Solaris 9, Solaris 10 and Misc Innovations, the lists spans from Intimate Shared Memory (ISM) in Solaris 2.2 to Dynamic ISM (DISM) and Expanded Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS). All are invited to contribute so that important technologies don’t get missed.
Orders to Stop at the End of July
The Solaris 9 Operating System has reached its end of life (EOL) as Sun announced that the last order date for this Unix version will be July 31, 2009. Consequently, the last ship date will be October 30 of this year and end of service life on the same day just five years later (October 30, 2014).
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.
