Upgrade OpenSolaris to Solaris 11 Express

How to upgrade your Opensolaris dev build 134 to Solaris 11 Express build 151aFirst we need to update 134 to 134bopensolaris:~$ cat /etc/releaseOpenSolaris Development snv_134 X86Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Use is subject to license terms.Assembled 01 March 2010open... Read more...

The fat lady is warming up

While the holiday has been over for almost a week already for me after 6 long days at LISA 10 Conference, today we head home.First off we have a drive down to LA about 5-6 hours depending on the traffic. The weather is as good as when we arrived with a top in LA of 27 and 23 here in San Jose.We ... Read more...

DAY 6 Lisa 2010 Dtrace tut

Jim Mauro's Dtrace tutDynamic code modification , use mdb to show te zfs_read code (disassemble) and then run dtrace zfs_read with probe entry to show how the code (disassemble is modified) run mdb again.http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/ search out the 5th BirthdayGood habit to add to dtrace script use ... Read more...

DAY 5 Lisa 2010 Vmware performance notes

RMC ESX Performance and Tuningvmx nic devices are the para virtualised NIC devices should always be used over the the e1000 intel devices better performance.disable memory scrubber in Solaris guests on ESXTime keeping in a virtual machine. And theis KB article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi... Read more...

DAY 4 LISA 2010

Over the Edge System Admin