Tag Archives: Solaris

Oracle 10g on Sun Fire T2000

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

There’s a new whitepaper about running Oracle 10gR2 Database on a Sun T2000 Niagara Server. Summary: When running the Oracle database 10g, the Sun Fire T2000 CoolThreads server outperformed an equivalent 4-way Dell PowerEdge server equipped with the latest 64 … Continue reading →

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Sun X4500 aka Thumper

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

On theregister, you can read about a new Sun Opteron based Server, called Sun Fire X4500 or Thumper. As theregister wrote, the server will be shipped with 48 SATA drives (250-500GB), two Opteron sockets, 10 hot swap fans, two half-height … Continue reading →

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Solaris 10 with ZFS, PostgreSQL and …

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

For all of you, who are still on Sun Solaris 7, 8 or 9, there’s a very cool page on sun.com, which is showing the difference between these four Solaris versions.

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Solaris 10 6/06 with ZFS downloadable for free

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

Solaris 10, Release 6/06 is now downloadable for free for Sparc and X86 / AMD64 Opteron Architectures as DVD or CD images. Solaris 10 6/06 is the first Solaris production release with ZFS, the brand new filesystem.

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Solaris 10 6/06

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

Scheinbar trennen uns nur noch wenige Tage von dem Erscheinen von Solaris 10, Release 6/06. Der erste Blog Eintrag im Solarium verrät schon was dazu. Ich bin gespannt, nicht nur auf ZFS. Update: Auf docs.sun.com gibt es mittlerweile das Dokument … Continue reading →

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Sun Solaris ZFS Learning Center

Posted on May 4, 2006 by Administrator

Together with the announcement about the availibility of Solaris ZFS 1.0 within the latest release of the Solaris 10 OS, Solaris 10 6/06 , which will be downloadable at the end of May, Sun launches the ZFS Learning Center as … Continue reading →

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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Administrator

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 … Continue reading →

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Compile subversion 1.3.1 Client with SSL Support for Solaris 10

Posted on April 16, 2006 by Administrator

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun Ray 2 Thin Client

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Administrator

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun Java System Web Server

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Thorleif Wiik

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 … Continue reading →

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