Posts tagged with: crossbow

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009: iWeb acquires the Sun Storage 7410 for its storage area network - It#039;s nice to see companies starting to promote the fact they#039;ve switched from a proprietary storage system to the Sun Storage 7000 range. Understanding ZFS: Disk Space Discrepancies - I#039;ve seen this discrepency before, but haven#039;t had the time to research it. Thanks to Ben, I don#039;t have to. Definitely worth remember this one. IPMP Re-architecture is delivered - A great introduction to the re-architected IPMP including examples of the old and new configuration styles. Once OpenSolaris... Continue reading ►

I've anxiously been waiting for this update email to say the snv_105 changes are now available for OpenSolaris. Now I can get playing with the cool new Project Crossbow networking functionality as Ben did here and here. I could have played with this when it first came out, except I took the decision to move 100% across to OpenSolaris on my machine at work instead of running the SXDE builds. No more dual boot. Just 100% OpenSolaris.

Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008: MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light. Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a real network comprising of Hosts, Switches and Routers as a Virtual Network on a any computer using OpenSolaris (w/ Project Crossbow) and zones. Pretty impressive stuff here, and full instructions too. Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks and VMware Fusion - Demo ZFS... Continue reading ►