For a lot of Servers, Sun offers new Power Calculators online.
Really good to calculate the total system Power in Watts and the BTU/Hour for individual Server configurations. The new calculators are available for SPARC and AMD Opteron Servers:
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
Sun recently updated the N1 Service Provisioning System ( N1 SPS) to Version 5.2.
There are some new things within this update, like new and updated Plugins, e.g. for Suse SLES 9 and RedHat 4.0 bare metal OS provisioning, Bea Weblogic 9.0, a JAVA API, and many more. At work, we currently use N1 SPS to install and deploy WAR files in Bea Weblogic, distribute html and php pages and so on.
If you want to use the subversion Client “svn” with SSL Support, it’s really easy to build your binararies on Solaris 10. You dont’ need any additional package, everything comes with Solaris 10, like OpenSSL.
Let’s start:
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.3.1.tar.gz
gtar-zxvf subversion-1.3.1.tar.gz; cd subversion-1.3.1
./configure --with-ssl --without-berkeley-db --prefix=/your/favourite
make install
Test, if SSL Support works:
svn list https://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
That’s it.
Sun offers a VMware image which, contains a VMware machine that has been pre-installed with a version of Solaris which is based on Solaris Express build 35, and includes all of the modifications added by the BrandZ project to enable the Solaris Containers for Linux Applications functionality. In addition, the Solaris image contains a Linux zone that has been installed from the Centos 3.5 Linux distribution. This VMware image should to be used by the most recent version of VMware server or the VMware player.
Today, Sun announced new Sun Ray Thin Clients.
I’m really looking forward to test them, especially the Sun Ray 2FS version with dual head support. Of course, it’s necessary to run Sun Ray Server to have fun with Sun Ray Clients. I hope, that Sun Ray Server 4.0 will bring a really good Microsoft Terminal Server Integration, which is also testable right now.
There are not so many articles on the web about running Sun Java System Web Server instead of apache or tomcat. The Sun Java System Web Server is not only a Web Server, it also includes a servlet container. There are also a lot of NSAPI modules available to integrate with other Application Servers like BEA Weblogic, Vignette V/7 etc.. Maybe the PHP integration, which I never tested in a project might not be so good. There’s a free PHP Enabler for the Sun Java System Web Server from Zend, but since a long time, it’s still Version 1.0… For those who want to run their Applications like Java Web Services based on Axis or the Roller open source blog server Blog Software on Sun Java System Web Server, this arcticle might be a good starting point. From my experience, Sun Java System Web Server is a really good and stable product, and I’m looking forward to see Version 7.0 which will support Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) within Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS). For all friends of our ne Sun Niagara T2000 Server, the on chip hardware SSL Accelerator is supported by the Web Server.
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