UnixArena offers free tutorial on Oracle VM for X86 . Oracle VM is an Oracle’s enterprise virtualization technology for SPARC and X86 hardwares. Oracle VM for SPARC is supported only through Oracle’s T-series servers which is built on SPARC processor(RISC Architecture & only Solaris Guest supported).Oracle VM for X86 is an X86 based hypervisor which […]
Solaris 11 – IPS repository issues and Fixes
This article is going to discuss about Image packaging system repository(IPS)’s real time issues and fixes. When i have started working on Solaris 11, i have faced lot of issues with IPS and that too happens only after the IPS deployment. You need to either online or local repository(offline) to install package,update the Operating system and […]
How to create IPS repository in Solaris 11.2 ?
Image packaging system(IPS) repository is one of the important element from Solaris 11 onwards. For an example, to install any new package or install the zones, you need IPS repository.In Solaris 11.2 release, oracle automated the IPS little bit by providing the script to merge the piece of repo files and performing the checksum automatically. […]
Converting native zone as Kernel zone – Solaris 11.2
On Oracle Solaris 11.2, we have already seen that kernel zones are completely isolated from the global zone. Oracle Solaris 11.2 kernel zones support both backward and forwards compatibility which means you can also run Oracle Solaris 11.3(When it release) on the kernel zone where your global zone can still with oracle Solaris 11.2 In […]
RVTools – Best VMware vSphere information Gathering tool
RVtools is one of the best windows application which provides the great information about VMware vSphere environment. This tool has been written by Rob de Veij and you can download this tool from http://robware.net freely. If you want to use this tool for commercial use , do not hesitate to donate to him. VEEAM backup software company […]
How to configure and install kernel zone on Solaris 11.2
In Oracle Solaris 11.2,we have new type of zone called kernel zone. This zone is almost similar to SPARC VM (LDOM) guests which can run on its own patch level and completely isolated from global zone. These kernel branded zones are support on both SPARC & X86 hardwares. But processors should support virtulization technology(VT) .In […]
Ultimate Oracle Solaris 11.2 – Must known Features
The only one enterprise Unix environment is keep on changing according to the market demand which is none another than Oracle Solaris. When Solaris 11 released , i have very pleased with image packaging system and network virtualization . Due to network virtualization, zone can run with exclusive IP irrespective of physical NICS which was […]
How to upgrade from oracle Solaris 11.1 to oracle Solaris 11.2 ?
As we all know that we can’t directly upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11. But from Oracle Solaris 11 onwards, when you perform the update ,system will automatically move to major version without any additional efforts. In the last article , we have seen that how to update Solaris 11 from oracle support repository directly […]
How to install OS patch bundle on Solaris 11 ?
This article is going to explain that how to update the Solaris 11.1 . Most of the Solaris administrators will search for Solaris 11 OS patch bundle like how we use to get for Solaris 10 but you won’t get it. In Solaris 11 , oracle removed the word called “patches” from their dictionary. Instead […]
How VMware vSphere is saving physical memory ?
There are lot of discussions is going on the blogs,social media’s about the vSphere’s VM memory management. So i had just came up with VM’s memory analysis on the last article. But i haven’t explained the memory saving techniques on that article. Here we are going to discuss about that. If you look at the […]