XPert Session: Running Solaris 8 and 9 Applications on Solaris 10 with Solaris Containers
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Ask BigAdmin XPert Jeff Victor your questions on “Running Solaris 8 and 9 Applications on Solaris 10 with Solaris Containers”.
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Installing Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on OpenSolaris Operating System
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Here are a few steps needed so that Web Server 7.0 will adopt the Java 6 SE Platform runtime on the OpenSolaris OS.
ZFS: Set or change the mount point of a filesystem (tech-recipes)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Creating new ZFS filesystems may seem strange at first since they are initially mounted under their parent filesystem. This is no problem since ZFS provides a simple and powerful mechanism for setting the mount point for a filesystem.
Sun Java System Access Manager FAQ: Performance and Sizing, Policy, Session Failover and Deployment, and Agents
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008In the latest addition to the Sun Java System Access Manager FAQ, you can find helpful tips on performance optimization and configurations. These Q&As also offer best practices and resolutions for error scenarios.
Using Logical Domains and CoolThreads Technology: Improving Scalability and System Utilization
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008With LDoms software, multiple logical systems, each with its own operating system and each running an independent instance of the application software are created on a single server.
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Hardware Certification Test Suite
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008HCTS testing enables you to certify server, desktop, and laptop systems and many different types of components. In May 2008, Sun released HCTS 4.1, which replaces HCTS 4.0. The HCTS program lets IHVs, system manufacturers, system integrators, and users certify systems and components for the Solaris OS on x86 and x64 platforms. All hardware that passes testing is eligible to be included in the Solaris OS Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
BigAdmin Wiki: Explorer Diagnostic Output
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008This wiki page describes Sun Explorer Data Collector, a diagnostic data collection tool that can provide detailed info about a machine to help troubleshoot problems.
Benefits of an Exclusively Multimaster Deployment of Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Read about the benefits of deploying Sun Java System Directory Server EE 6 in an exclusively multimaster topology instead of a master, consumer, and replication hub topology.
Zone Swap Cap Utilization
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008This script will examine zones running on your host and reports the current swap utilization compared to the zone.max-swap resource cap set on the zone, including files using swap space in /tmp which normally is not considered in the `rcapstat -z` output.
Exception Handling for Sun N1 Service Provisioning System: Developer Techniques
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008This document presents guidelines for developing Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 6.0.2 components and plans with good error handling capabilities.