Archive for January, 2010

Jumping from FC10 to FC11

Finally I had enough spare time to sit down and carefully upgrade my VPS to Fedora Core 11 using the recommendations to steer clear of any possible issues. Needless to say everything went without a hitch. The only thing that should be redone is clamav which I setup in hast but that’s trivial.

Posted on January 29, 2010 at 8:59 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

MPxIO unveiled

Another must see video has been published on Sun Video Blog and this time it’s all about MPxIO. So if you been looking for in-depth explanation of how things work from multipathing perspective in Solaris you’re more than welcome to follow to this link. I decided to embed the videos into this post just in […]

Posted on January 29, 2010 at 9:31 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

Sun – HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

As you certainly know Sun Microsystems Co. doesn’t exist anylonger and now it’s just another part of our history. So it’s not a surprise to see that all requests to www.sun.com are now redirected to a new home place www.oracle.com Btw, I encourage you to watch Larry Ellison speaking about the future steps that Oracle […]

Posted on January 28, 2010 at 1:08 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

iPad that iFails

Don’t know how you feel, but my opinion is that newly introduced Apple device, called iPad, is at the very least… ugh… strange… controversial… questionable… but certainly not what most of us have been awaiting for. I’m scratching my head trying to imagine a reasonable usage-case for such a device but constantly failing. To add […]

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 11:38 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Apple

Sun CEO’s swan-song

Another pep-talk from Jonathan Schwartz with a hidden message, rather hackneyed in my opinion, – “Beat IBM” – inside. Frankly, this passage left an unpleasant aftertaste.

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 10:28 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Oracle + Sun strategy update webcast

This is a quick reminder not to miss an exceptionally intrigue live webcast presented by Oracle, during which all of us, those who do care about future of Sun’s innovative technologies, are supposed to learn today what tomorrow has in its pocket. Agenda 9:00 a.m. Safra Catz: Welcome and Opening Remarks Charles Phillips: Oracle + […]

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 5:18 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Mending VxVM

Last night I was upgrading a domain on our SF6900 box to Solaris 10 and since we use VxVM to mirror our root disk there was no use in preparing dedicated backup neither on tape nor on separate disk because it’s much easier and accurate to split rootdg into two disk groups, e.g. rootdg and […]

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 5:46 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Veritas

Green light for Oracle’s deal over Sun Microsystems

Hallelujah! The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. by Oracle Corporation, a US enterprise software company. After an in-depth examination, launched in September 2009 (see IP/09/1271 ), the Commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in […]

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 3:06 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Fibre Channel Concepts

If you’d like to fill some gaps in FC’s field then the following video course presented by Sun engineer could greatly assist in your study.

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 10:02 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

God`s Gonna Cut You Down

Just amazing! Keep that always in mind…

Posted on January 11, 2010 at 11:49 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life