One of my biggest complaints about Oracle VM 3 is that everything is abstracted at every level. A VM name is simply meta data stored in a database (kind of) while everywhere that it matters the VM only exists as a UUID, lets look at some examples. The Way It…
Shore Up New Jersey: Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
I wanted to take a few minutes and let all of you know about an organization I had the pleasure and honor of working with recently. I have worked with similar organizations previously however there was something truly special about this organization. This organization was Heavenly Driven Disaster Relief website…
Solaris 11: Using Crashplan for Cloud Backups
I personally use Crashplan for my cloud based backups (I have for over a year). I use them because they are one of a few (to be honest the only one) who actually have Solaris installers. The one downside of this is that they do not start the CrashPlanEngine by…
Solaris 11: Defining A Service Using Svcbundle and the SMF
Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone). I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions. However I would like to take advantage of…