Deepest and most profound apologies to Rob Chanter, whom I left off the list of speakers.
He's going to be chatting about 'being new to OpenSolaris' and the trials and wins when converting from Linux to OpenSolaris. See you all there. Nathan. Nathan Kroenert wrote: > Reminder - It's on tomorrow (Wednesday the 17th). > > Please RSVP if you have not already done so, so i can get Pizza and > Drinks sorted out. > > A few small changes in the lineup due to time and other constraints: > VCS and zfs/rsync will push to next month, with A.I. coming when it > works for Alan. (having some virtual box issues... heh ;) > > So, we have: > - Andre: A controversial and mysterious topic > (hint: It's something to do with oracle...) > - Daniel Cook: Live Upgrade and Patching stuff > - Darko da Man: A look at a real Fishworks 7110 device, including a > physical look at it, and some real time analytics with a real workload. > > Cheers! > > Nathan. > > > > On 4/03/09 01:55 PM, Nathan Kroenert wrote: >> Greetings all - >> >> We are rapidly approaching the next meeting, which, as we usually >> aim for, falls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month! >> >> By Crikey - if you missed last month, you missed a blinder... We had >> Nathan and Boyd playing the fool and straight man (I'll leave you to >> choose which was which) in some discussions around SPARC and X86 >> hardware and had a good look at using Dtrace for simple troubleshooting. >> >> Boyd even recalled his previous command - using the up arrow... >> >> This month, we have a bunch of possibles - to be confirmed with the >> speakers. Currently looking like (In the order that folks told me they >> would be interested): >> >> - Andre: A controversial and mysterious topic >> - Daniel Cook: Live Upgrade and Patching stuff >> - Alan Chalmers: AI - Automated Opensolaris install >> - Arya Abdian: ZFS and rsync for backup >> - Greg Boug: VCS (Veritas Cluster) >> >> And possibly some I have forgotten. (Let me know if I forgot!!). >> >> **Speakers:** Please confirm if you can or cannot do this month. :) >> >> Clearly, we won't get through all of these in one meeting - We'll move >> them into next month. :) >> >> 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 March the 18th, 2009 at 18:00 for general >> discussion. >> >> Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around >> 20:00ish. >> >> Speakers / Topics will be: >> >> - Andre van Eyssen: A controversial and mysterious topic >> - Daniel Cook: Live Upgrade and Patching stuff >> - Alan Chalmers: AI - Automated Opensolaris install >> - Arya Abdian: ZFS and rsync for backup >> - Greg Boug: VCS (Veritas Cluster) >> >> 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. >> >> >> ===================================================================== >> 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 >> >> ===================================================================== >> > >
