Tag Archives: Solaris

Building a 52TB SAS-2 ZFS array

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Storage can be very expensive, especially if you want a lot of it, want flexibility and expandability, but it doesn’t have to be! I’m currently in the process of putting together a new storage system, but because we’re strapped for … 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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Quick HOWTO: Sun DHCP daemon

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Sun’s own DHCP daemon is not often used for anything besides Jumpstart/PXE boot and SunRay’s presumably because it’s not as well documented and accepted as the ISC DHCP daemon. I recently had a need to quickly setup a DHCP server … Continue reading →

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