Monthly Archive for September, 2008

New Peering Boy at BCIX: Foundry BigIron RX-8

Published on September 18, 2008 in bcix. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

This week, we received a new toy at BCIX. A Foundry Networks BigIron RX-8:

Foundry BigIron Rx8 at BCIX

As you cann see in the picture, this Box is currently configured with 8 line Rate 10G Ports, 24 SFP GE Ports and 24 10/100/1000 Copper Ports. Of course, switching fabrics and management modules are redundant. With this nice box, we’ll push BCIX peering traffic in Berlin.

Solaris 10 U6 10/08 Release is coming

Published on September 15, 2008 in Sun Solaris. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

As mentioned here and as you can see on this page, there are a lot of interesting new features in the upcoming Solaris 10 10/08 or also called Solaris 10 Update 6 release:

  • Intel Xeon CPU/Memory Fault Management
  • AMD64 CPU/Memory Fault Management
  • Intel NUMA support
  • Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 support
  • AMD SSE4A support
  • Xen-based paravirtualization guest support for network and disk
  • ZFS boot / ZFS as a root file system ( yes !! )
  • Solaris Containers update on attach
  • Solaris Containers on a ZFS root file system
  • Logical Domains support for disk and network Dynamic Reconfiguration
  • PostgreSQL 8.3

Hope to hear more from Sun aboute the Update 6 and hope bits will be available for download, soon. Refering to this press release, Solaris 10 10/08 is scheduled to be available in mid-October.

UPDATE: Solaris 10 Update 6 is released on Halloween 2008 !

Look at the “What’s New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release” Documentation and

Download Solaris 10 10/08