Tips and tricks on DTrace, ZFS, Zones and Solaris administration
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The simplicity and compehensiveness of Brendan Gregg's USE method blows my mind every time I revisit it as part of my Solaris skills refresher. From the USE method page: For every resource: check utilization, saturation and errors. The reason I'm … [Continue reading] about USE Method by Brendan Gregg
We got a real treat this week - Oracle refreshed the Solaris 11.4 Open Beta, meaning that it's still the same Solaris version but with a few really important improvements: almost 300 additional bug fixes (280+ they say) really cool ZFS … [Continue reading] about Oracle Solaris 11.4 Open Beta
Just a few days after the orginal post with Solaris 11.x plans, Oracle just provided an update on the official Solaris blog. Starting with Solaris 11, OS development and update will follow a continuous delivery model, whih means the next few years … [Continue reading] about Continuous Delivery for Solaris
Okay, so Oracle just updated their roadmap for SPARC and Solaris. Seems Solaris 12 will take a couple more years to be released (I seem to remember that in 2014/2015 a very similar roadmap was suggesting Solaris 12 would show up in late 2016), which … [Continue reading] about Oracle Roadmap: SPARC/Solaris