Author Archives: Lasse Osterild

Vyatta v6.1-2010.07.28 Beta

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

The Vyatta project released VC6.1-2010.07.28 Beta a few days ago, besides a bunch of bug fixes it also contains a number of interesting new features. New in this release Stateful failover for NAT and firewall LLDP support QoS input interface … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris – The Illumos Project

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Cross-posted from opensolaris.org A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we’re just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general participation … Continue reading →

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Oracle Solaris support for non-Oracle x86 systems

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Again contrary to what has been said in the past, Oracle now supports Solaris on non-Oracle x86 systems as long as it’s listed as certified in the Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). You can find more information on http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/non-sun-x86-081976.html, including … Continue reading →

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Dell and HP to certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Finally some good news from Oracle, and a speck of hope that OpenSolaris will continue on the same path as before.  On July 29th Oracle announced in a press release that HP and Dell will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, … Continue reading →

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Solaris Storage in Video

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

This master index of Solaris storage videos will be updated periodically as new videos are added and missing old ones (that are still worth a look) recovered. http://blogs.sun.com/storage/entry/solaris_storage_in_video

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Sun Unified Storage Simulator 2010.Q3

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

It’s now available from the Sun^H^H^HOracle website, I’ve previously had little luck with the older release and upgrading it didn’t work either. Oracle seems to have discontinued the VMware version so you’re stuck with VirtualBox. You’ll need an Oracle account … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris IPS

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

<rant> Why is IPS so slow? I’m trying to do image-update a fresh install of b131 to b134 which is about 784MB in 90054 files, I get between 20 and 100Kb/sec, so far it’s taken two hours to download 661MB … Continue reading →

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Replacing Cisco PIX battery

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Today, while debugging a new 10/10Mbit broadband connection my trusty old Cisco PIX 515E decided it’d had enough or rather the lithium battery did. Bit of Googling didn’t yield any results on replacing it but I remembered that last time … Continue reading →

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XenServer “Midnight Ride” Beta

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

The good folks at Citrix have is working on a new release of XenServer codenamed “Midnight Ride”, and a public beta is supposed to surface in March 2010. Some of the new features are, but not limited to: Granular Role-based … Continue reading →

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No more free Sun patches

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Oracle has done it, without a paid support contract you cannot get ANY Sun patches, not even critical security patches. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-203648-1. I don’t believe this is the correct way to do business, sure they stand to make a bit more … Continue reading →

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