OpenSolaris 2009.06 Zones and ZFS

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Don't mess with the the ZFS cloned BE (boot environments) of the zones using zfs commands. There is very little documentation out there, so here is what we've found with ZFS, zones, and IPS upgrades.

Perfect web server

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There is no perfect web server. The application picks the web server. :) Here is a quick run down:

Making sense of Solaris distributions (part 2)

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This is an updated version of a similar blog we've written a while back. There are a few different Solaris distributions out there produced both by Sun and the Open source community. Here is a quick run down on the differences. The OS source code is distributed at http://opensolaris.org.

New Service: Thin Client Hosting using SunRay

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We're releasing a Thin Client Hosting service today. It is in beta at this point, but we've used it in our test environment for the past few months and it has worked great!

Getting PID from Port in OpenSolaris

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LSOF is a tool that's been available for ages, it can be used to "list open files". One of the nice things you can do with it is to list process IDs of a given TCP/UDP port. In Linux, people can use netstat to get this information. Solaris lacked this, so a good alternative is to …