Project Crossbow is an innovate, and I think important, new contribution to the OpenSolaris project. Crossbow makes network virtualization and resource management first-class citizens in OpenSolaris. If follows in the footsteps of ZFS by having a simple and easy-to-understand interface, while providing great flexibility and power to the administrator. My February column for ;login: Magazine describes and explores Project Crossbow in detail.
Posts under ‘Solaris’
Teaching at the Usenix ATC conference
I’ll be teaching two days of my Solaris tutorials at the Usenix ATC conference in San Diego during the week of June 15th
Sixth NEOSUG meeting rescheduled
We’ve rescheduled the sixth NEOSUG meeting for March 11. Dave Miner will talk about the state of OpenSolaris and demo some new functionality, and I’ll talk about what’s new in the Solaris 10 update 6 (11/08) release. Hope to see you there. For full details and registration info have look at the NEOSUG discussion forum.
The OpenSolaris Bible Published
Very happy to see the fruits of the labor of Nicholas Solter, Gerald Jelinek, and David Miner – The OpenSolaris Bible. Just received my copies (I was Technical Editor) of the book, and it is the best way to learn OpenSolaris. It focuses on the user experience, but also has lots of good how-to detail [...]
My latest column at ;login:
Sun 7000 Analytics column by Peter Baer Galvin in February 2009 ;login: magazine
Postponed – Sixth NEOSUG Meeting
Just a quick note that we’re postponing the 6th NEOSUG meeting due to inclement weather and low registrations. For more details see the NEOSUG forum at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88485&tstart=0
Column – The Death of Solaris
My latest column has been published in ;login:. I have attached it for your convenience. Dec 2008 ;login: column.
Column – Solaris System Analysis 102
My October 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about Solaris System Analysis – detailed steps to take to determine why a system is “slow” or “busted”. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login:, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here [...]
Column – Solaris System Analysis 101
My August 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about Solaris System Analysis – a checklist approach to solving a system being “slow” or “busted”. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: August 2008, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here for those [...]
Column – The State of ZFS
Sorry for the delay in announce / posting this. My June 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about the state of ZFS – features, functions, stability, useability, performance, production use, and so on. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: June 2008, but my column this month is not one [...]