Upgraded the memory on my Mac Pro from 5GB to 12GB and I feel like I’ve been let out of jail. Now I can have Entourage, Firefox, Aperture, and Vmware running at the same time and not be swapping to disk – life is much faster. I used 2 X 4GB kits from Other World Computing – a great company. Removed the 2 X 512MB DIMMs that were the original memory in the box.
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Column – The Sun Virtualization Guide
My April 2009 column has been published in ;login: Magazine. This month it’s The Sun Virtualization Guide- making sense of and decisions about the various Sun virtualization options. LDOMs, Containers, Domains and Xen are all options worth considering, and this guide leads you through what each does and when to use them. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login:, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here for those without a USENIX membership (although I strongly recommend you get one if you are interested in all things Unix).
My new posting at ctistrategy about Sun 7000 Analytics
Just posted at http://ctistrategy.com/, an overview of Sun 7000 Analytics, including a walk-through showing its powerful features and links to more information and a downloadable full-featured virtual 7000.
Fourth NEOSUG meeting and Call to Action
(For those interested in the NorthEast (US) Open Solaris Uses Group…)
Hi NEOSUG’ers!
Sorry for the lateness of this update, but now the holidays are over and it’s back to work.
Our November NEOSUG meeting featured two great talks:
Jeff Victor talked about the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, which is a software technology that enables a Solaris 10 Container to behave like a Solaris 8 system. The slides from the talk are available here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ne-osug/files/S8MA-Customer.pdf
In its first public demonstrration (!), Dave Miner showed off Project Indiana, which is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. Dave also handed out CDs containing this first preview distribution (version .75). Quite a few folks at the meeting used this liveCD to boot and test Indiana, while others (like me) installed it as a VMware guest to play with. Dave’s slide are available here: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/slides_from_indiana_at_neosug
Finally, this user group is actually for y’all, the users. Please take a minute to fill out this survey to tell us about logistics and topics for future NEOSUG meetings: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=KEoVVsviYk1cJD56XeWeaw_3d_3d
Also, if you have an interesting topic to talk about, and want to talk about it, please get in touch and we’ll try to include that in a future meeting.
Based on your surveys and feedback, we’ll start planning the next NEOSUG meeting.
As always, questions and comments are welcome.
Teaching at SANSFIRE
Update – the participation of Usenix at SANs conferences was postponed so I won’t me making this conference.
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I’ll be teaching my Solaris 10 Administration Workshop and Solaris 10 Security Workshop at the SANSFIRE conference – the major SANS event. It’s in Washington D.C. this year. USENIX and SANS are working together to provide more training on varying topics at their conferences and my classes are part of that cross-polination. I’ll be there July 28th through 30th (at least).
http://www.sans.org/sansfire07/