Category Archives: solaris 11 express

SPARC SuperCluster T4

Today 9/26/2011 announce the T4 SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 server 4x3Ghz 8Core and 1TB RAM FAQ, DS, arch-WP5U ZFS appliance 7320-C 6U exadata Storage Cell x2-2 2U IB switch DC-36 1U S11 11/11 or S10 8/11, S10 09/10 with 8/11 Patch … Continue reading →

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possible feature in Solaris 11

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

this post list some possible feature in S11 the most interesting one: Zones will be able to share NFS filesystem Fuse support T4 support exadata and exalogic support

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S10 to S11 upgrade path

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Oracle OpenWorld is fast approaching and now both exadata and exalogic support Solaris so questions: how customer can upgrade from s10 to s11? nice blog by jeff savit ISV guide WP Solaris for SA As of today 9/8/2011 one cannot … Continue reading →

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Oracle Solaris 11 Express V12N pre-build vbox VM

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

one of the interesting new feature of Oracle Solaris 11 Express is the Network V12n this is based on the crossbow project, as the design and arch docs there are many presentation, blogs and workshop that were based on OpenSolaris … Continue reading →

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Solaris 11 for exadata

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

on Aug 11, 2011 Oracle announce that Oracle Solaris 11 Express Available on Oracle Exadata Database Machines Oracle Exadata Running Oracle Solaris Delivers Powerful Combination The combination of Oracle Exadata running Oracle Solaris offers customers: Continuous uptime with Oracle Solaris … Continue reading →

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solaris outlook/SPARC roadmap

Posted on April 17, 2011 by

recent Solaris forum it has the following Solaris outlook/SPARC Roadmap

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exalogic roadmap

Posted on April 17, 2011 by

recently I  find this exalogic roadmap on the web Some observations: V1.1 is very interesting and it will support OEL VM and Solaris Containers it seems that it will not support OVM-SPARC it will support JRockit Virtual Edition One can … Continue reading →

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EL X2-2 vs SMP servers

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

recent push by Oracle on exalogic elastic could will renew the comparison with rack of 2 socket server with IB and SMP server or rack of fater nodes e.g. 8 socket or 4 socket with IB. Just by reading the … Continue reading →

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Some observation of IB Fabric@exalogic

Posted on January 17, 2011 by

Oracle release the exalogic system (EL x2-2)  on the web, quick read and some observations on the IB Fabric (some may be in complete or in correct): This is a very complex system involved many new features, e.g. IB gateway … Continue reading →

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ZFS recovery

Posted on July 20, 2010 by

ZFS is designed for single host file system, in a shared storage environment one can export zpool then import zpool to a different host, but by using -f (force) option one can easily import zpool into two hosts If one … Continue reading →

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