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Concise Reference on Setting Up and Administering ZFS

As the title reads, this book is an essentials guide to Solaris 10 ZFS. Numbering only 144 pages, the slim paperback is designed to show its readers how to deploy and manage ZFS file systems. It is particularly useful for those users who are new to Solaris or are using ZFS for the first time. It is easy to get ZFS up and running on a home system or business IT infrastructure by following the simple instructions in this book.

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Migrating the Guest OS Oracle Enterprise Linux from VMware to VirtualBox

If considering moving a virtual machine (VM) from one virtualization platform to another, you might want to think about just creating a new VM on the preferred platform. However, if you would rather avoid a complete reinstallation and are interested in trying a VM migration, then read on to find out some tips on making the move as smooth as possible.

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Blog Offers Steps and Tips on Set-up

A few tips on how to install Solaris 10 OS as a virtual machine under an Oracle VM 2.2 environment has been posted by Honglin Su on Oracle’s Virtualization blog. All of the steps are accompanied by screen snippets so readers can compare their results with his. He also includes links to downloads and documentation throughout the blog, helping ease the process.

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Best Practices Guide Addresses Issues Related to Virtual Machine Sprawl

Virtualization has transformed the data center. The cost savings and efficiencies virtual machines (VMs) feature along with the ease in implementing them within an infrastructure have blinded many into acting versus planning for the technology. Anil Desai has written a best practices guide on implementing and managing a viral infrastructure. His article provides recommendations for managing virtual environments and for preventing issues related to VM sprawl.

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Develop Parallel Applications More Easily

Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris is a pre-configured, integrated development environment (IDE) to enable developers to quickly and efficiently create, debug and deploy parallel applications. Certified on OpenSolaris, it takes advantage of virtualization for easy installation and seamlessly integrates with a cloud environment for scalability. This full-featured HPC development environment is distributed as a virtual machine (VM) that is pre-configured, grid enabled and a virtual HPC cluster comprised of three OpenSolaris zones.

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Major Enhancements: SMP Support, VMs Management Capabilities

Download the freely available Sun VirtualBox 3.0 and get symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) support, meaning support for guests that have multiple virtual CPUs (vCPUs), with up to 32 vCPUs in a single virtual machine (VM). This new release also allows users to deploy, start, stop, etc., VMs within a network or datacenter for ease in management. There are additional updates and added desktop support in this latest version, which Sun identifies as “significant”.

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This Beginner’s Guide Comes from Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy

Before attempting to setup virtual machines on your own, check out this beginner’s guide that walks users through the installation of VirtualBox, a free open source virtual application. In the article by Kevin Purdy, he suggested that anyone who wants to use a separate operating system (OS) might want to consider setting up a virtualization system.

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