Greetings all -
We are rapidly approaching the next meeting! Please forward this to
anyone interested in Solaris or closely related technologies. The more
the merrier!
Where?
Level 7, 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne,
When?
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 18:00 for general discussion.
Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, and we expect that each speaker will take
up to one hour, although, we now have pizza, so might go longer!
Confirmed Speakers / Topics will be:
- Boyd Adamson and Andre van Eyssen
Using ZFS in anger, focusing on the more exciting features
of ZFS beyond zpool create and zfs create. Will include
some ZFS architecture for the uninitiated.
- Andre van Eyssen
SSGD for the masses:
A review of the SSGD capabilities, including windows
application deployments.
Etude: Solaris 8 Migration Assistant (Time permitting)
(Solaris 8 in Solaris 10 containers!)
And assuming that there is *any* time remaining (unlikely),
- Nathan Kroenert
Niagara 2 as a test subject, a simple performance and
workload characterisation on Niagara 2.
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 for details!)
Cheers!
The MSOSUG Instigators.
