NOTE!! THIS WEDNESDAY THE 20TH!
Greetings all -
We are *very* rapidly approaching the next meeting, which, as we usually
aim for, falls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Last month: It's been that busy I don't even remember. I recall
something about nehalem systems and some majorly funky stuff from Arya
on using ZFS and rsync to make some funky backup stuff. Awesome.
This month, we have System 5 packages and patches, some discussion on
what to do in a performance problem situation when nothing makes sense,
and Boyd rapping on AVS. If time permits, we are also going to look at
the most recent 20 builds worth of putbacks into Solaris Nevada (and
opensolaris) to see what's happening in the rest of the solaris world.
Please respond in the positive OR negative ASAP so Pizza and Drinks can
be planned. :)
Where?
Level 7, 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne,
When?
Wednesday May the 20th, 2009 at 18:00 for general
discussion.
Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around
20:00ish.
Speakers / Topics will be:
- Malcolm: System 5 packages and patches. Building them and using
them. Make no mistake. If you plan on getting serious about automated
deployment and are thinking ab out xVM Ops Centre, this is something
you'll want to know.
- Boyd: AVS: Availability suite... Replication and other funky stuff
- Nathan: Why if poking yourself in the eye hurts, you should stop
it. (aka performance issues unlimited...)
Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.)
**If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to nathan at sun.com so that we
can plan for seating / pizza / drinks!**
To anyone who meets with or talks to folks interested in Solaris: Please
let everyone know about the meeting, the time and the date. We had a
great first meeting, and would love to continue to grow the group.
A note on access: The Lifts in the building and entrance to Level 7
automatically lock early in the evening, so access will be provided by
Sun folks on-site. A sign will also be placed close to the ground floor
lifts with a contact number, should you arrive after the start of the
meeting.
If you are interested in Solaris, doing interesting things with, or on
Solaris, we want YOU!
See our opensolaris project page:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/msosug/
Hope to see many of you there, and if you are not yet on the alias
ug-msosug at opensolaris.org
consider joining us! (See the project page above for details!)
Cheers!
The Instigators.
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Upcoming Topics / Hopeful Speakers.
Qualities of OpenSolaris and Linux and how they compare
AVS and Replication
CrossBow
ZFS Archive Installation / Flar
Backup + DR with ZFS
LU for S10 patching <-- Dan Cook
OS upgrading
Qualities of SPARC and X86 hardware <-- Nathan
FORTH <-- Gavin M
BSM / Auditing <-- Andre van Eyssen
Dtrace - Beginner and a little more advanced <-- Boyd/Nathan
InstallFest <-- Boyd/Nathan/Andre
New hardware platforms as they arrive <-- Everyone / Anyone
Redhat in Zones / Brandz in general
SNMP <-- Arya?
NAGIOS <-- Arya
Trusted Extensions
Cluster framework with Oracle RAC
Cluster with LDOMS and Zones
IPS mirror creation <-- Nathan
Comstar + iSCS
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