Updated: 2011-06-28 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 5 MySQL Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition Released Features MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC OpenOffice Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Previous Next Enables Users to More Effectively Deploy and Manage Web and Cloud Applications at Lower Cost June 28, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 5 Developed to enable more efficient and lower cost deployments of virtualized MySQL environments , the first Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition was recently announced by Oracle . The new template helps eliminate manual configuration efforts and risks by providing a
Updated: 2011-06-28 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 5 Exadata Sign in Register Password Help Membership types 1,000th Installation of Oracle Exadata Database Machine Features MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC OpenOffice Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Previous Next Adopters from 67 Countries , 23 Industries Have Opted for Exadata June 28, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 5 With more than 1000 installations of Oracle Exadata Database Machine in place in 67 countries around the globe in 23 industries , Oracle is entitled to crow a bit about the adoption rate of its database appliance . Andrew Mendelsohn , Oracle SVP , Database Server Technologies , says , Customers are
Updated: 2011-06-27 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 5 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Configuring Oracle Solaris Cluster Software With Oracle RAC CRS and Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7000 Systems Features MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC OpenOffice Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Previous Next Procedure Applies to Entire Sun 7000 Unified Storage System Line June 27, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 5 A blog post on the Oracle TechNetwork by J . Randriam describes the installation procedure for a 3-node Sun Cluster 3.2 01 09 or Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 or later configuration running with Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC Cluster Ready Services
Updated: 2011-06-23 15:00:00
Oracle VM Server SPARC 2.1 (or OVMSS) has a new and useful feature: DTrace support, whose inclusion means that users can get information about domain activity that is otherwise unavailable, such as internal flow and timing. The blogger, Jeff Savit, illustrates the operation of DTrace in OVMSS by showing how a script written for that purpose, migrate.d, performs.
Updated: 2011-06-23 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 4 Solaris Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Install Oracle Solaris 11 Express on Oracle VM VirtualBox News Features Solaris MySQL Linux Cloud Computing HPC Servers Storage Top10 Developer Virtualization Java Technology Security Trademarks Previous Next Solaris 11 Express Version of Solaris-VM Lab June 23, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 4 In a lab that is the first of a forthcoming series , students can learn what is necessary for Installing Oracle Solaris 11 Express in Oracle VM . VirtualBox The lab consists of several exercises : Exercise 1 : Download the Oracle Solaris 10 09 10 Appliance Image for Oracle VM VirtualBox
Updated: 2011-06-21 15:00:00
Yet another addition to Oracle's Hands-on Labs series is "Protect Your Applications with Oracle Solaris Security," which examines privileges, RBAC (Rights and Authorizations) and integration with SMF (Service Management Facility). Students are assumed to have completed the lab "Installing oracle Solaris 11 Express in Oracle VM Virtual Box." There are four lab exercises:
Introduction to Solaris RBAC and Privileges
A closer look at Solaris Privileges
Process privileges and rights
SMF.process privileges and authorizations
Completion time for all four is approximately one hour.
Updated: 2011-06-21 15:00:00
Writing on Oracle's Virtualization Blog Honglin Su provides a rundown on the new features in the Oracle VM Server for x86 2.2.2 Release. Among those features is the expanded guest OS support list that now includes Oracle Linux 6.x and Oracle Solaris 11 Express OS, and the VMPinfo system information and cluster troubleshooting utility, which is now provided.
Updated: 2011-06-14 15:00:00
Bill Nesheim, VP for Oracle Solaris Engineering, Chris Armes, Senior Director of Oracle Solaris Engineering, join host Charlie Boyle to discuss how important availability features are in Oracle Solaris. These include reduction, even elimination, of unplanned downtime, and especially the heavy focus in Oracle Solaris 11 on great reduction of planned downtime, i.e. maintenance. In addition, Eve Kleinknecht, Product Manager for Oracle Solaris Cluster, joins the other panel members to discuss recent developments in multi-system high availability and the great solutions that Oracle Solaris Cluster provides.
Updated: 2011-06-13 15:00:00
: Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 3 Cloud Computing Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Discover Enterprise Cloud Computing : Oracle�s Use of Oracle VM for IaaS Partners MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata Storage Java Technology Security Previous Next Register and Log in on June 28, 2011, at 9:00 a.m . Pacific Daylight Time June 13, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 3 Oracle invites participants to register and log in to their event Discover Enterprise Cloud Computing : Oracle s Use of Oracle VM for Infrastructure as a Service IaaS scheduled for 9:00 a.m . Pacific Daylight Time on June 28, 2011. Speakers will be Don Nalezyty , Director , Enterprise Architecture
Updated: 2011-06-09 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 2 Sun Security Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Issues 17 Fixes for Java SE Platform Features Solaris SPARC Servers Storage Top10 OpenOffice Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory June 2011 June 9, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 2 The June 2011 Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory alters users to 17 new security fixes across Java SE . products The affected product releases and versions are : JDK and JRE 6 Update 25 and earlier JDK 5.0 Update 29 and earlier SDK 1.4.2_31 and earlier The next Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Updates
Updated: 2011-06-09 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 2 SPARC Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1 Features Solaris SPARC Servers Storage Top10 OpenOffice Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Adds Live Migration , Improved P2V Tool , Dynamic Resource Management DRM between domains June 9, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 2 Oracle has augmented its virtualization portfolio with the release of Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1, which comes installed on Oracle�s SPARC T-series servers . Oracle VM Server for SPARC allows up to 128 virtual machines , or domains� , on one system , providing organizations increased
Updated: 2011-06-09 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 2 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Database Cloning Using Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and Oracle Data Guard Features Solaris SPARC Servers Storage Top10 OpenOffice Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next High Availability and Disaster Protection for Production Databases June 9, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 2 Responding to the challenges facing database administrators charged with meeting the requirements of application development and code testing within a production environment , Oracle has developed Oracle Data Guard and the Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance to provide
Updated: 2011-06-08 15:00:00
If you are waiting expectantly for Oracle to move Oracle VM from Xen to KVM (Red Hat's Kernel Based Virtual Machine,) Roddy Rodstein in his blog "Oracle VM: Xen today, KVM tomorrow?" suggests that you not hold your breath. After first providing an informative history on the development of both Xen and KVM, Rodstein then cites the expert opinion of Wim Coekaerts who blogs that Oracle has no really compelling reason to make the suggested shift to KVM. So take a breath.
Updated: 2011-06-07 15:00:00
In Chapter 3 of the "Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide" is a discussion of differences between Oracle Solaris ZFS and traditional file systems, an understanding of which can contribute to minimizing confusion whenever traditional tools are employed in conjunction with Solaris ZFS. The differences under discussion include the following:
ZFS File System Granularity
ZFS Disk Space Accounting
Out of Space Behavior
Mounting ZFS File Systems
Traditional Volume Management
New Solaris ACL Model
and more
Updated: 2011-06-07 15:00:00
Spend three minutes watching Oracle Senior Director of Product Marketing Monica Kumar's whiteboard explanation of "Application-Aware Virtualization" in which she outlines the benefits of Oracle VM Server, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, and Oracle Enterprise Manager, all of which move virtualization from the horse-and-buggy era of server consolidation to the 21st Century era in which the datacenter becomes a service center that can deliver complete solutions on demand efficiently and rapidly.
Updated: 2011-06-06 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 2 Sun Storage Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Monitoring Multiple 7000s with Oracle Grid Control Features Solaris Servers Storage Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Oracle Previous Next No-cost Solution Simplifies the Process June 6, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 2 Oracle Grid Control OGC is a no-cost subset of Oracle Enterprise Manager , writes Steve Tunstall on his . blog He adds that there are a large variety of Management Agents available for it , many at no cost . The agents for the 7000 and 6000 arrays are free . The oracle database needed is considered an Infrastruture database a separate Oracle Database that
Updated: 2011-06-06 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 160 Issue 2 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Exadata Database Machine Command Reference Features Solaris Servers Storage Performance Sysadmin Virtualization Oracle Previous Next All the Commands DBAs and DMAs Might Require June 6, 2011, Volume 160, Issue 2 Users new to Oracle Exadata Database Machine and even some old hands will surely find the four-part guide authored by Arup Nanda called Series : Oracle Exadata Command Reference a helpful reference . Nanda assures readers that they will learn all the commands necessary to administer the Exadata Database Machine , especially the storage-related commands
Updated: 2011-06-03 15:00:00
The Oracle Tech Network now lists the "Hardware Compatibility List for Oracle Solaris," upgraded from the list originally compiled for BigAdmin by Robert Weeks. The HCL includes:
Oracle Solaris 10 HCL
Oracle Solaris 11 Express HCL
Solaris for x86 Device List
HCL Search
Device Detection Tool
Hardware Certification Test Suite
Information about Oracle's Solaris-Ready Program
The HCL lists all the hardware, including servers, desktops, laptops, and peripheral devices, that are compatible with Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 Express.
