Slides from tonight’s MSOSUG presentation on Solaris 9 Containers.

Get it here: http://www2.purplecow.org/static/msosug-sol9cweb1.pdf

• Where?
  • Level 7, 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
• When?
  • Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 18:00 for general discussion.
• What’s on the menu?
  • Maramba - “Even better than Steak?” (NathanK)
  • Solaris 9 Containers (Andre)
  • An assortment of wibble and bits, including a poke at OS2008.05, hardware stuff, random rants and other joy.

The Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris User Group (MSOSUG) meets again Wednesday, April 16th, 2008. 6pm at the Sun building, level 7, 447 St Kilda Rd.

Topics:

• Logical Domains & Etude used in a production deployment (NathanK, Andre)
• Zones & Resource Controls (Blaise Groud)

See you all there!

Just a reminder that the next meeting of MSOSUG, the Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris User Group is coming up,  Wednesday, March 19th.

Usual time and place - 6pm,  Level 7, 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.

This time Richard Smith will be talking about Solaris Performance Counter Observation - Richard is one clued in guy about performance tuning, so this alone makes it well worth the visit. In addition,  Richard Spindler will be discussing troubleshooting Jump Start - should be a lively and interactive session there.

During last night’s MSOSUG, the fact that Cassini (ce) is now working with IP Instances on Solaris 10 popped up. Since there hasn’t been a whole lot of publicity surrounding this I thought I’d drop a quick post here. The patches are 137042-01 and 118777-12, so head over to sunsolve.sun.com and grab it. I know this will be a popular patch for those performing consolidation operations on existing UltraSPARC infrastructure.

Don’t forget the next meeting of the Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris User Group, 20th February at 7/476 St Kilda Rd (Sun’s offices).

Program for the night is:

• Richard Spindler
  • Jumpstart Troubleshooting.
  • What you need to know to make it work when it don’t!

• Richard Smith (Unconfirmed)
  • Performance observation
  • A start down the road of understanding performance.

• David Visser
  • Advanced JET and Application Provisioning using N1SPS

• Dan Cook
  • Extended Attributes
  • Do you know what they are? Why should you care?
  • Dan will tell you all about them and why you care. :)

Slides for my JumpStart and JET presentation for the Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris User Group are available.

Grab them here.

Another fine MSOSUG this evening - I was most impressed with the questions my SSGD presentation brought up - certainly raised some interesting ideas of what the market may want from a product like SSGD.

The Lustre presentation was an excellent introduction to the subject, and pulled some statistics and benchmarks supporting Lustre. It was also most interesting the hear about the limitations and problems that Linux kernel integration had caused them and how these limits are being removed by their transition to Solaris/ZFS. A very interesting product indeed, and one I look forward to playing with soon.

Nathan’s xVM stuff was excellent, and he gave an inspiring demonstration of Xen virtualisation on Solaris at work - plenty of workload, plenty of action. He handled the questions and prodding from the vmware userbase admirably well, and made a real case for using xVM over other alternatives.

Next one should be in January, availability permitting, where I’ll be having a chat about Custom JumpStart and JET.

Slides will be posted soon!

Just a quick reminder, since some people aren’t getting the mailouts:

19th December, 7/476 St Kilda Rd, 6:00pm.

The lineup so far includes yours truly having a yarn about SSGD, Nathan talking about Xen/XVM (and giving some demos!) and Atul Vidwansa talking about Lustre.

I should have some OpenSolaris starter kit media to give away on the night, so there’s free stuff and everything. Not to mention pizza.

Slides from the ZFS presentation at the last Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris User’s Group.

Get them here: http://www2.purplecow.org/static/msosug_zfs.pdf