In IT infrastructure market, Cloud is the trending topic and technology from last few years. Most of the hardware vendors and operating systems developers have already started working to integrate the cloud technology on existing operating systems. For an example , oracle had integrated the openstack cloud software on their oracle Solaris operating systems.Let’s have […]
Shellshock bug – vulnerability on Bash shell
Millions of computers are using bash shell (command interpreter ). New security flaw has been found on bash(Bash Code Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) and it allows attackers can take the system control remotely. Heartbleed wave was just over on last april (Openssl vulnerability ).Is Shell-shock hurts more than Heartbleed ? Off-course Yes. Heartbleed was all about sniffing the system […]
VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide
Are you planning to buy hardware to setup the VMware vSphere/vCloud environment ? We need to choose the hardware very carefully since most of the virtualization features are depends on the server hardware. Technology is growing very rapidly and hardware vendors may push the hardware without those virtualization features. For an example, if you buy […]
Unable to Detach vCenter Server from vCloud
How to detach the vCenter Server from vCloud Director ? Its very simple .If you want to detach the vCenter server completely from vCloud, just remove the Cloud Resources and detach the vCenter server from vCloud director web portal. But sometimes, we may forget to clean up the Cloud resources properly and that will create a problem when […]
Sun ZFS Storage appliance – Administration
This article explains how to create ISCSI targets, LUNS and filesystem from scratch in ZFS storage appliance which is the common storage on oracle supercluster. ISCSI protocol works in server-client model where ISCSI target will act as a server and initiator will act as a client. This communication happens through IP network. In Oracle supercluster, we […]
Oracle SuperCluster – ZFS storage appliance Simulator
From last few weeks , i am working with Oracle Super Cluster T4-4 systems. Initially i felt quite difficult but now i am bit familiar with this engineering systems. In Oracle Super Cluster, ZFS storage appliance is one of the main components which provides the shared storage for in built SPARC systems. In the Half […]
Playing with Oracle Solaris 11.2’s Openstack cloud
This article talks about how openstack works with oracle Solaris 11.2 and how to use it. In the last article ,we have seen that installing pre-configured openstack Solaris image as kernel zones ,bare metal installation and installing it on Virtual box/VMware workstation. Once you have install the Oracle solaris 11.2 – openstack image , then […]
Migrating VM – Virtual Box to VMware workstation
This articles demonstrates that how we can migrate the virtual machine from Virtual box to VMware workstation . Virtual box can able to export the VM in OVA file format (Open Virtualization Archive) which can be easily imported in VMware workstation. I have forced to install Oracle Solaris 11.2 on Virtual box and now i […]
Installing Oracle Solaris 11.2 using USB openstack Image
Oracle Solaris 11.2 has integrated with openstack for cloud computing. Many of the Oracle Solaris administrators would like to try the openstack stuffs but deployment is not so easy on it. Since Openstack is new to Solaris administrators, oracle provides the Pre-built templates to install Oracle Solaris 11.2 with openstack package to setup in few […]
Oracle Solaris 11.2’s Virtual components
What are the virtual components available in Oracle Solaris 11.2 ? Since Oracle Solaris 11.2 supports openstack (for cloud deployment), what are the core components have been virtualized? In this article,we will see the virtual components and how it will be useful in real life.For an example, if you want to provision 10 local zones […]