Solaris Systems News
| Case Study: Web Application Tuning on Chip Multithreading Platforms
Use jstack and tune your Web applications to prevent performance bottlenecks on chip multithreading (CMT) platforms. Getting Started With the OpenSolaris OS
OpenSolaris expert Brian Leonard explains how to get started with the OpenSolaris operating system. Tutorial: DTrace by Example
This tutorial uses DTrace, a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the Solaris 10 OS, to analyze several applications and shows how its use can improve performance. Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) Feature in the OpenSolaris OS
The Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) feature, which optimizes the use of interrupt vectors to improve IO performance, is available in OpenSolaris build 107 and is scheduled for the Solaris 10 10/09 OS for SPARC platforms. Installing Solaris 10 5/09 OS on IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server
This Sun tech tip provides a workaround for using the GUI during boot or during installation of the Solaris 10 5/09 OS on the IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server. Monitoring Performance Counters for UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub Architecture
You can use the busstat command in the Solaris 10 OS to monitor performance counters for the UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server. Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System
This Sun BluePrints article shows how to scale a medium-sized Web 2.0 site with a million registered users with open-source technologies, and includes detailed configuration and tuning information for the deployment. (Login or registration required.) Configuring the DHCP Server for the Solaris OS or OpenSolaris OS
Learn how to configure the bundled DHCP server provided in the Solaris OS or the SUNWdhcs package for the OpenSolaris OS. Solaris Application Memory Management
Learn the basics of application memory management on Solaris, and avoid and resolve common memory usage problems. Using Amanda Enterprise 3.0 With OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS
This paper describes how to deploy the Amanda Enterprise product from Zmanda on a Sun Fire X4500 server using ZFS. This scenario uses ZFS snapshots to improve backup performance. Using Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS
This article shows how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using ZFS snapshots and the OpenSolaris OS. A Planning Guide for Moving to LDAP as Naming Service in the Solaris OS
Moving from Network Information Service (NIS) or NIS+ to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)? Read this first. Topics include DIT design and implementation of a hybrid DIT. Sun's Open Network Systems Launch
Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris have been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Open Network Systems. Get more information and download the new Sun BluePrint. Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager
Learn how to manipulate BEs for convenience and transparency; update software in a BE; clone, create, or delete BEs; and set a BE as default. Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application
Use NetBeans IDE 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude to create a Ruby-on-Rails Web application in OpenSolaris 2008.11 without typing a single line of code. LOFS Mounted Platform-Specific Routine Libraries With CMT UltraSPARC Processor-Based Systems
Multiple versions of platform-specific routine (PSR) libraries (per platform, per processor) can be used with chip multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC processor-based systems running the Solaris 10 OS, so that each processor is optimally utilized. Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS
With the OpenSolaris beadm utility, you can efficiently create, modify, or delete multiple boot environments with different system configurations and switch back and forth among them with ease. Note: This article has been updated to reflect the file structure in OpenSolaris 2008.11. Introducing pfexec, a Convenient Utility in the OpenSolaris OS
Passwordless pfexec is the OpenSolaris version of Linux's sudo. Learn how to assign the appropriate rights profile to users so that they can execute commands with root privileges by prepending pfexec to the commands without becoming root. Note: This article has been updated with clarifications. Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS
Sun Web Stack contains numerous preconfigured tools (Apache, MySQL, PHP, NetBeans IDE, and others) for developing and deploying applications. This article describes how to install and initialize the stack on OpenSolaris. Writing Your First Web Application Using PHP on the Solaris OS
Create a sample program using PHP on the Solaris OS with the NetBeans 6.0 IDE. How Tos/Cookbooks for Using NetBeans with Solaris Express Developer Edition 01/08
This is the landing page contains links to the various cookbooks/how-tos for using NetBeans 6.0 with these new runtime stacks. Why Develop on the Solaris OS
Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) offers you unique features, backward compatibility, quality development tools, an easy download, and a thriving open source community. Develop and Deploy the SAMP Applications in Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08
Ludovic Champenois demonstrates how to use the new SAMP features in SXDE, from developing PHP applications using NetBeans IDE 6 to deploying to an optimized Apache-MySQL-PHP stack-- all using GNOME-based GUIs. Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 Now Available!
This Solaris release, built from the open source OpenSolaris code, includes the latest version of NetBeans, an integrated web application stack and
ClusterTools to help you create Solaris, Java and Web 2.0 applications. My Experience Installing Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE)
Join Bob Eckstein, senior SDN writer, as he takes SXDE out for a spin. Solaris, PostgreSQL, and NetBeans - Just Perfect!
PostgreSQL is the open source enterprise database platform fully integrated into Solaris 10 and Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) with comprehensive support offerings from Sun. This blog describes how to quickly setting up PostgreSQL 8.2 on SXDE 9/07 to make it work with NetBeans 6.0. SXDE 9/07 Localized Docs Now Available!
The latest version of the localized SXDE documentation is now available online at the SXDE website . Sun Net Talk: Solaris Express Developer Edition
This brief on-demand webcast shows how developers can
create high-performance applications using this
distribution and deploy to the Solaris 10 OS. Introduction to Solaris and opensolaris.org
An introduction to the Solaris Operating Environment and the OpenSolaris open source project. Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 is now available !
The 1st update of Solaris Cluster 3.2 increases flexibility,
ease of use and extends virtualization support. New! Ruby Developer Resource Center
Just learning or already deploying? Get downloads, docs, news feeds, blogs, screencasts, and learning trails to help you build applications using Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby-on-Rails. Atomic SPARC: Using the SPARC Atomic Instructions
This article introduces the SPARC memory model and atomic instructions, then implements some IBM AIX interfaces for use on the Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition). NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest
Start blogging about NetBeans IDE 6.1 and win some fabulous prizes. Download NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta What We're Watching: pNFS in OpenSolaris
A presentation from Spencer Shepler and Siddheshwar Mahesh on pNFS in OpenSolaris - SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 2007) IPv6 on Solaris
This paper is targeted towards a developer with IPv4 experience and looking to migrate to IPv6. Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks and VMware Fusion
At Immersion Week in Chicago, they gave Jim Laurent a USB hub and 3 memory sticks. Read how to demonstrate ZFS on them using nothing more than a Mac Book Pro with VMware Fusion and Solaris 10. Now Available: Crossbow Beta
Create your own network in a box . Crossbow provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service, protocol or Virtual machine. The source code and binaries are available now. Learn more Debugging the JVM Using dbx
See how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a particularly thorny JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system. Sun Studio Express - February 2008 Build
See how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a particularly thorny JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system. What We're Watching: Hyon Kim on a New Multipath Management API for SCSI Devices
Hyon Kim reports on a new multipath management API for SCSI devices at SNIA's Storage Developers' Conference (Sept, 2007). What We're Watching: John Forte on a New iSCSI Management API
John Forte presents a new iSCSI Management API at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference, September 10-13, 2007. MySQL article - Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers
MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database, fills an important niche in Sun's software stack. With Sun's reach and resources, MySQL is poised for even wider adoption. Updated: MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS
You can maximize the performance of MySQL on the Solaris platform through configuration and tuning of the database server, along with optimizing the
Solaris OS for MySQL. What We're Watching: Mark Carlson on the Management Framework Reference
Updated! Video repaired, full hour now available! At SNIA SDC (Sept, 2007), Mark Carlson provides an early look at SNIA's Management Framework effort. Tape Drive Support in Solaris
Learn to use tape drive self-identification to automatically configure tape drives in the Solaris OS. SunSPOTs Go Open Source
Recently Sun Microsystems announced that it would open source both the hardware and operating system for SunSPOTs, its sensor networking product based on Java technology. |