Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 4: Testing the replication.
One of the most essential tasks when configuring disaster recovery mechanism is training the procedure. Thus let´s test the switch into our remote datacenter. We will simulate a failure now....
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 3: Setting up a synchronous mirror with AVS
After this short introduction in the theory of AVS Remote mirror, we will set up such an replication between two hosts. Prerequisites for this tutorial In this tutorial we need...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 2: The fundamentals of Remote mirroring with AVS
Some words about Sun StorageTek Availability Suite at first: We´ve opensourced the product quite a while ago. While it´s a commercial product for Solaris, we´ve integrated it into Solaris Express...
Less known Solaris Features: Remote Mirror with AVS - Part 1: Introduction
Solaris was designed with commercial customers in mind. Thus this operating environment has some capabilities that are somewhat useless for the soho user, but absolutly essential for enterprise users. One...
Virtual machines and system time
One observation with virtual machines on my Macbook Pro: # ntpdate 130.149.17.21 30 Mar 16:58:00 ntpdate[710]: step time server 130.149.17.21 offset 82.381455 sec # ntpdate 130.149.17.21 30 Mar 16:59:07 ntpdate[711]:...
c0t0d0s0 at Systemnews
c0t0d0s0 was linked at sun.systemsnews.com again. This time it´s my article about Solaris Resource Management: I read this website for several years now as a excellent resource of information and...
links for 2008-03-30
FSU Editorial: "The Dow is Crashing" by Mike Maloney 04/16/2007 (tags: finance dow crash economics history)
txt2re
This tool is better than Paracetamol for programmers headaches: txt2re This web based tool can create the regular expression to gather a certain part from an example string.
links for 2008-03-29
Gizmodo DE : Ein Traum von Unsterblichkeit Barcodes am Grab ... NUMA.3 Topology Representation : rv's techblog About NUMA and lgroups (tags: os solaris)
Security Drama Queens
Okay, at the first moment i was really in fear that we have installed OS images with a nasty new security vulnerability or we installed a solaris version with the...
Future of NFS
Interesting article about NFS at EnterpriseStorageForum - “The Future of NFS Arrives”: I believe that NFSv4.1 is going to make a number of file systems look very bad.
TagCrowd
Nice tool to create a tag cloud based on a website or text apple archiving business c0t0d0s0 comments configuring continue crisis das data defined del der die eastern entry features...
Suicide Thursday
Jedesmal, wenn es mich in Richtung Norden verschlaegt, passiert irgendetwas. Nicht das ich nicht ohnehin schon missmutig in den Tag gestartet bin, nein … etwa kurz vor Krupunder hat sich...
I wish you a merry ... eastern ???
Ich war über Ostern in der Heimat … einfach mal ausspannen. Irgendwie war ich aber Sonntag dazu geneigt zu fragen, was es denn nun Heiligabend geben wuerde. Dieses Bild ist...
Economic crisis
Excellent summary of the sub prime crisis: The Sarbanes-Oxley was put in place to safeguard the economy and the investors from an Enron-like disaster, which compared to the sub-prime crisis...
links for 2008-03-25
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong (tags: apple business it management technology hissteveness)
Less known Solaris features: SamFS
Pheewww … i´ve finalized my SamFS tutorial, a long text. SamFS is the hierarchical Storage Management Filesystem from sun. Several new concepts, so you have to explain some theory before...
Less known Solaris Features: SamFS - Part 9: Conclusion
Okay, this was a rather long tutorial and i didn´t even talked about the configuration of tape devices. As i told you before: Only the toes in the atlantic ocean....
Less known Solaris Features: SamFS - Part 8: Usecases and future directions
Okay, after all this configuration. How can you use it? Well, the most obivous usage of SamFS is Archiving. And many customers use it for exactly this task: Archiving audio,...
Less Known Solaris features: SamFS - Part 7: Working with SamFS
Now we´ve configured a file system and we set up the archiver for it. Now let´s use it. Looking up SamFS specific metadata At first let´s create a test file....