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These are the recent changes to the BigAdmin wiki. (For a list of the articles recently published on the BigAdmin.com hub, see Comment on BigAdmin Content.)

November 2009

Nov 24, 2009 - Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3) added to Databases, Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and Interoperability pages
Nov 16, 2009 - Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g or 11g Release 1 on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3) added to Databases, Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and Interoperability pages
Nov 16, 2009 - Using the MilaX Live CD for failsafe booting for SPARC machines by bnsmb
Nov 11, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Sun Business Ready HPC for Altair RADIOSS," added to High Performance Computing page
Nov 9, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Using Sun Ops Center with Sun HPC Software," added to High Performance Computing and Virtualization pages
Nov 9, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Oracle Database 10G with RAC and Reliable Datagram Sockets," added to Databases page
Nov 9, 2009 - Sun Java Communications Suite Resources for System Administrators added to Email page
Nov 8, 2009 Converting the MilaX Live CD for SPARC to a WANBOOT image by bnsmb
Nov 4, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition," added to Servers and Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems pages
Nov 2, 2009 - How to Leave scripts running when you logoff, and exit nicely when sent a SIGTERM signal, by Ross Moffat
Nov 2, 2009 - Log File monitor Script, by Ross Moffatt

October 2009

Oct 21, 2009 - Patching the Solaris OS Using Sun Ops Center 2.5 added to Patches and Releases page
Oct 19, 2009 - Sun HPC Consortium and SC09 Conference added to Community Events Calendar
Oct 19, 2009 - Creating a Solaris 10 x86 OS Bootable DVD or CD by Ross Moffatt
Oct 16, 2009 - Virtualization Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) added to Virtualization page
Oct 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence," added to Databases and Web Technologies pages
Oct 14, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Accelerating Databases with the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array," added to Databases and Storage pages
Oct 12, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 With Oracle," added to Databases, Web Technologies, Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, Interoperability, and Servers pages
Oct 9, 2009 - Resources for the Solaris 10 10/09 OS added to the Operating Systems page
Oct 2, 2009 - FOSS.IN and OpenSolaris Security Summit added to Community Events Calendar

September 2009

Sept 28, 2009 - Oracle white paper, "A Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine," (pdf) added to Storage and Databases pages
Sept 24, 2009 - BigAdmin article, "Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems," added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and Interoperability pages
Sept 16, 2009 - BigAdmin article, "Microsoft Windows Integration on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System," added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and Interoperability pages
Sept 11, 2009 - Sun System Software Stacks added to BigAdmin web site (server details on wiki)
Sept 11, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Maintaining Solaris with Live Upgrade and Update On Attach," added to Patches and Releases and Upgrade pages
Sept 11, 2009 - Hardware Resources and Tech Tips page added by R. Weeks
Sept 8, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Sun Business Ready HPC for ANSYS FLUENT," added to HPC page
Sept 2, 2009 - Backup and Recovery Snapshots for VMware ESX Server With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and Backups page
Sept 2, 2009 - Backup and Recovery for Oracle Databases With Snapshot Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Backups page

August 2009

Aug 27, 2009 - Solaris tip of the week, "Use mdb to View Process Stack," added to Operating System and Troubleshoot pages
Aug 20, 2009 - White paper, "Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140, and T5240 Server Architecture," added to Servers page
Aug 20, 2009 - White paper, "Virtualizing Enterprise Application Infrastructure with Sun Chip Multithreading (CMT) Technology,"
added to Servers page

July 2009

July 29, 2009 - Workaround for Installing Solaris 10 5/09 OS on the IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server added to Servers, Installation, and Operating System pages
July 27, 2009 - Running SAP ERP 6.0 With Oracle Database on the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page and Databases page
July 23, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "The Solaris Operating System - Optimized for the AMD Opteron Processor," added to Operating System page
July 23, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Demystifying Enterprise-Class Server Virtualization," added to Virtualization and Servers pages
July 23, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup," added to Databases and Servers pages
July 23, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Logical Domains Quick Start Guide," added to Virualization and Servers pages
July 15, 2009 - Community tech tip, "Using Sun QFS File System in a Disaster Recovery Setup," added to the Filesystems page
July 9, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying the AMP Stack in Virtualized Environments - Taking a Step Towards Cloud Computing," added to LAMP-SAMP, Web Technologies, and Virtualization pages
July 2, 2009 - "Using CommVault Simpana Data Archiver and CIFS With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System" and "Deployment Guide for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System" added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page
July 1, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Optimizing PostgreSQL Application Performance with Solaris Dynamic Tracing," added to Databases page

June 2009

June 25, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology," added to the Servers and Security pages
June 23, 2009 - BigAdmin's Sys Admin Resources for the OpenSolaris OS added to the Operating System and Open Source pages
June 22, 2009 - New Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page
June 22, 2009 - Backup and Recovery for Oracle Databases With Snapshot Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page
June 22, 2009 - Disaster Recovery Solution for Oracle Databases Using Remote Replication Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page
June 22, 2009 - Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With VMware ESX Server added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page
June 22, 2009 - Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as Storage Target for Symantec Enterprise Vault added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems page
June 22, 2009 - MySQL 5.1 Database Deployment Over CIFS Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and Databases pages
June 22, 2009 - Sizing Study for Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite on Sun Platforms added to Databases page
June 22, 2009 - Sun Storage J4400 Arrays as 6000-Mailbox Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 With CCR added to Storage page
June 22, 2009 - Configuring the DHCP Server for the Solaris OS or OpenSolaris OS added to Operating System, Networking, and Open Source pages
June 19, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran," added to HPC page
June 19, 2009 - The Zones Update on Attach Feature and Patching in the Solaris 10 OS added to Patches and Releases page
June 18, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Solid State Drives in HPC: Reducing the I/O Bottleneck," added to HPC page
June 16, 2009 - Availability Engineering's Sun Cluster Oasis blog (e.g. Oracle on Solaris Cluster: Stuff you might have missed) added to Availability page
June 11, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying Apache HTTP Web Server on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems," added to Storage and Web Technologies pages
June 11, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Open Network Systems for Internet Infrastructure, MySQL Edition," added to Storage, Web Technologies, Open Source, and Databases pages
June 10, 2009 - Using the MilaX Live CD for failsafe booting by bnsmb
June 5, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun Logical Domains," added to Databases and Virtualization pages
June 2, 2009 - Adding a Live CD Distribution to an existing Solaris installation by bnsmb
June 2, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Configuring Systems for High Bandwidth I/O," added to Servers, Storage, and Configuration pages
June 1, 2009 - OpenSolaris 2009.06 Support for 1000+ SPARC and x86 Systems, What's New in OpenSolaris 2009.06, and Solaris 10 5/09 OS What's New Guide added to Operating System page
June 1, 2009 - OpenSolaris 2009.06 Support for 1000+ SPARC and x86 Systems and What's New in OpenSolaris 2009.06 added to Open Source page

May 2009

May 21, 2009 - To See Tape Contents (in English and Portuguese) by Nuno Rocha
May 21, 2009 - Make Various Directories Recursively: In English and in Portuguese, by Nuno Rocha
May 21, 2009 - Known Issue in the Solaris OS Affecting Keyboard Layout and Characters Displayed by Thomas Boes
May 13, 2009 - Sun BluePrint, "Accelerating IBM HTTP Server Cryptographic Operations Using Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology, added to Security, Servers, and Web Technologies pages
May 13, 2009 - White paper, "How to Work with ZFS Snapshots," added to Filesystems and Operating System pages
May 13, 2009 - White paper, "How to Configure and Run PostgreSQL on Solaris 10," added to Databases page
May 13, 2009 - Kernel Conference Australia 2009 added to June Community Events Calendar
May 13, 2009 - Retail Books About the Solaris 10 OS added to Operating System page
May 13, 2009 - SDN article, "Developing MySQL Database Applications With PHP (Series of 4 Articles)," added to Databases page
May 13, 2009 - Link to Chinese Blogs added to Multilingual page
May 12, 2009 - Sun Ray Desktop Unit (DTU) Hangs at 2D6 by Michael Otto
May 12, 2009 - In German: Sun Ray Desktop Unit Hängt an 26D (and on Mulilingual page)
May 12, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Solaris Zone Clusters," added to Availability, Virtualization, and Zones pages
May 12, 2009 - Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Databases and Storage pages
May 12, 2009 - Deploying Oracle ASM Using iSCSI on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Databases and Storage pages
May 12, 2009 - Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Databases and Storage pages
May 8, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Best Practices for Deploying TWiki Software On GlassFish Application Server Using LRWPinJava," added to Java Deployment and Web Technologies pages
May 6, 2009 - Videos, "Book 1: Solaris 10 Patching Philosophy" and "Book 2: The Quest or How I Learned to Love Solaris 10 Patching," added to Patches and Releases page
May 4, 2009 - MySQL 5.4 Benchmarks In-Depth Webinar added to Community Events Calendar
May 1, 2009 - Oracle OpenWorld added to Community Events Calendar
May 1, 2009 - Demystifying MySQL for Solaris Administrators added to Community Events Calendar

April 2009

Apr 29, 2009 - How to Remove a Solaris Patch While Booted From a Network or CD-ROM added to Patches and Releases page
Apr 29, 2009 - How to Split a Root Mirrored With Solaris Volume Manager Prior to Updating Software added to Patches and Releases page
Apr 29, 1009 - Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm Failure in the Solaris OS added to Patches and Releases page
Apr 29, 2009 - Open HA Cluster Summit May 31 in San Francisco added to Community Events Calendar
Apr 28, 2009 - Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System added to Storage and Databases pages
Apr 28, 2009 - Virus Scanning on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite added to Storage and Security pages
Apr 28, 2009 - Disaster Recovery in Veritas Volume Manager 4.x
Apr 17, 2009 - Changing the value of kernel static strings by Rex di Bona
Apr 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Sun's High Performance Computing Reference Architecture," added to HPC page
Apr 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System," added to Web Technologies, Operating System, Open Source, and Servers pages
Apr 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Solving the HPC IO Bottleneck: Sun Lustre Storage System," added to HPC and Storage pages
Apr 10, 2009 - Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL Database added to Storage and Databases pages
Apr 10, 2009 - Using Sun Fire X4540 Server With Zmanda Recovery Manager 2.2 for MySQL Database added to Storage and Databases pages
Apr 10, 2009 - Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software added to Storage page
Apr 10, 2009 - Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software added to Storage page
Apr 10, 2009 - Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager added Operating System and Open Source pages
Apr 8, 2009 - OpenSolaris 2008.11: Accessible Live CD Instructions added to Operating System and Open Source pages
Apr 8, 2009 - Usenix '09, FISL 10, Sun HPC Consortium, and Lustre User Group meeting added to Community Events Calendar
Apr 8, 2009 - Sun BluePrints document, "Deploying Oracle Siebel CRM on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems," added to Databases and Storage pages
Apr 8, 2009 - Firmware Flash Utility for SAS Expanders by Bruce Hill
Apr 3, 2009 - SMF Short Cuts updated by Henry Pepper
Apr 2, 2009 - How to Change Sun Cluster Node Names by Fabio Morais do Nascimento
Apr 1, 2009 - Added JavaOne and CommunityOne West conferences to Community Events Calendar

March 2009

March 31, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Using the Solaris Operating System to Optimize the Xeon Processor 5500 Series CPUs," added to Operating System and Performance pages
March 30, 2009 - Testing data consistency during Mutipathing switchover by SDK
March 26, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Deploying DB2 Database on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System," added to Databases and Storage pages
March 20, 2009 - OpenSolaris Toshiba Laptops added to Open Source and Interoperability pages
March 17, 2009 - White paper (requires registration), "Lustre File System: High-Performance Storage Architecture and Scalable Cluster File System," added to HPC page
March 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Energy Efficient Datacenters: Electrical Design," added to Power Management page
March 13, 2009 - Fluendo Makes New Codecs Available for OpenSolaris added to Open Source and Operating System pages
March 13, 2009 - Test Farm and SSH on an iPhone added to Open Source and Operating System pages
March 13, 2009 - SPARC Support in OpenSolaris Development Package Repository build 106 added to Open Source and Operating System pages
March 12, 2009 - Now Possible to Upgrade Directly From Solaris 8 SPARC to Latest Solaris 10 Release (in Gerry Haskins' Patch Corner Blog) added to Patch page
March 10, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Virtualizing Desktops With Sun Ray Software and VMWare View Manager," added to Virtualization and Desktop Environments pages
March 10, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "The Managed Desktop Factory: Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software as a Service," added to Desktop Environments page
march 10, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Optimizing the Desktop Using Sun xVM VirtualBox," added to Desktop Environments page
March 5, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "How to Deploy Virtual Clusters Using Solaris Zones, and Why," added to Zones and Virtualization pages
March 5, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Lustre File System - Demo Quick Start Guide," added to Filesystems and HPC pages
March 3, 2009 - A Script Template and Useful Techniques for ksh Scripts - Update March 2009 by bnsmb
March 3, 2009 - How to use ZFS and rsync to create a backup solution with versioning by bnsmb
March 2, 2009 - How to change the output of the uname command in the Solaris OS by bnsmb

February 2009

Feb 26, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "High Availability MySQL Database Replication with Solaris Zone Cluster," added to Databases and Zones pages
Feb 26, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Improving MySQL Database Scalability," added to Databases and Servers pages
Feb 25, 2009 - Workaround for Solaris 10 Errors Related to NICs tech tip by Vance Turner added
Feb 23, 2009 - BigAdmin article in German (Identitaeten in einer Service orientierten Welt) added to Multilingual BigAdmin Wiki page
Feb 23, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "MySQL Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System," added to Databases and Storage pages
Feb 23, 2009 - Russian wiki page with notes on ZFS (Заметки) added to Multilingual BigAdmin Wiki page
Feb 23, 2009 - Automatic Service Request (ASR) Resources added to Servers, Fault Management, Automation, and Troubleshoot pages.
Feb 19, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Using RAID 6 for Increased Reliability and Performance," added to Performance, Storage, and Reliability pages
Feb 19, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Running MySQL Database in Solaris Containers," added to Databases and Zones pages
Feb 19, 2009 - Solaris tip of the week, "Use stunnel in client mode to debug SSL connections," added to Operating System, Security, and Troubleshoot pages
Feb 18, 2009 - Sun Fire X Servers - ILOM Serial Console Configuration added by Joseph Kwan
Feb 17, 2009 - Firmware page added by Bruce Hill
Feb 17, 2009 - BigAdmin Twitter feed added to BigAdmin Wiki home page; scroll down to see it on the left
Feb 17, 2009 - System Data Recorder tool added to Monitoring page
Feb 16, 2009 - VirtualBox on Opensolaris short cuts page added by Henry Pepper
Feb 16, 2009 - Live Upgrade Short Cuts page added by Henry Pepper
Feb 5, 2009 - Running Trusted Extensions in OpenSolaris 2008.11, Understanding Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and OpenSolaris 2008.11 Installation FAQ added to Open Source and Operating System pages
Feb 4, 2009 - Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools; Part 1: Getting Started (Pool Creation, Export, Import) added to Filesystems page
Feb 4, 2009 - Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools; Part 2: Mirrors, Disk Failures and Spare Disks added to Filesystems page
Feb 4, 2009 - Hands on Introduction to ZFS Pools; Part 3: RAIDZ2 added to Filesystems page
Feb 4, 2009 - Installing OpenSolaris in VirtualBox webcast added to Virtualization, Open Source, and Operating System pages
Feb 4, 2009 - Overview of the Distribution Constructor added to Open Source and Operating System pages
Feb 4, 2009 - OpensSolaris Storage Summit 200902 and 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) added to Community Events Calendar
Feb 3, 2009 - Fault Management for System Administrators (on OpenSolaris Wiki) added to Fault Management and Open Source pages, and feed of FMA-related blogs added to Fault Management page
Feb 2, 2009 - Lustre Quick Start Guide added to High Performance Computing page

January 2009

Jan 30, 2009 - "Installing the Solaris 10 10/08 OS on Dell PowerEdge M805/M905 Blade Servers" added to Servers page
Jan 30, 2009 - Upcoming MySQL Expo and Sun Tech Days added to Community Events Calendar
Jan 30, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Configuring Sun Storage 7000 Systems for Oracle Databases," added to Databases and Storage pages
Jan 27, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Solaris Containers," added to Databases, Zones, and Interoperability pages
Jan 27, 2009 - Solaris 10 5/08 Printing Errors Can be Resolved With Patches added to Devices and Peripherals page
Jan 22, 2009 - Upcoming sys admin mashup added to Community Events Calendar
Jan 16, 2009 - Solaris tip of the week, "Zone cloning," added to Operating System and Zones pages
Jan 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints article, "Addressing Systemic Qualities in SAMP Architectures," added to LAMP-SAMP and Web Technologies pages
Jan 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Using Sun Systems to Build a Virtual and Dynamic Infrastructure," added to Servers, Virtualization, and Interoperability pages
Jan 16, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Optimizing MySQL Database Application Performance with Solaris Dynamic Tracing," added to Databases and Performance pages
Jan 14, 2009 - Rollout of Stricter Entitlement Policy for Solaris Patches (in Gerry Haskins' Patch Corner Blog) added to Patch page
Jan 14, 2009 - Amazon pre-order links for Solaris Security Essentials and Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials added to Operating System page
Jan 8, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, " Configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Sun Fire x64 Servers," added to Servers and Virtualization pages
Jan 5, 2009 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers Configuration Concepts," added to Servers page
Jan 5, 2009 - "Using Sun Java System Web Server With Sun Identity Manager and MySQL Software" added to Middleware page

December 2008

Dec 31, 2008 - Added "Locating Application Server Downloads and Documentation" and "Sun Blogs: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment" to Middleware page
Dec 24, 2008 - Added Jyri Virkki's Sun Web Stack blog to LAMP-SAMP page
Dec 24, 2008 - Added Understanding the Security Capabilities of Solaris Zones Software (Sun BluePrints doc by Glenn Brunette and Jeff Victor) to Security and Zones pages
Dec 22, 2008 - Sun Cluster for Solaris Express Community Edition build 101a added to Open Source for SysAdmins page
Dec 22, 2008 - Simple Demo for Ruby on Rails With the Solaris 10 OS; Observability Using Java Platform, Standard Edition 6, and Solaris; and Creating a RubyGems Mirror With HTTP Basic Authentication added to Developer page
Dec 19, 2008 - Web 2.0 Resources for System Administrators added to Web Technologies page
Dec 18, 2008 - "Continue Getting Support for Solaris 8 With Vintage Patch Service" added to Patches and Releases page
Dec 18, 2008 - Want to try out the new features of OpenSolaris 2008.11 without downloading, installing, or configuring? See the Open Source page for info on how to get free access to your own cloud using the OpenSolaris Learning Cloud Service's Beta On-Demand Lab
Dec 18, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper by Dr. Christoph Schuba, "Security Advantages of the Solaris Zones Software," added to the Virtualization, Security, and Zones pages
Dec 11, 2008 - Solaris tip of the week, "ZFS mount cleanup," added to Operating System and Filesystem pages
Dec 11, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Optimizing the Desktop Using Sun xVM VirtualBox," added to Virtualization page
Dec 11, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Consolidating Oracle Siebel CRM 8 on a Single Sun SPARC Enterprise Server," added to Servers page
Dec 8, 2008 - Using on-the-fly decompression for UFS filesystems by bnsmb
Dec 4, 2008 - Author bnsmb updated the script for Which files are in the boot_archive? to handle the various locations and file formats (plain, compressed) for the boot_archive
Dec 4, 2008 - Advantages of Solaris and OpenSolaris over Linux added to Operating System and Open Source pages
Dec 4, 2008 - BigAdmin's Scripts RSS feed added to the Scripts wiki page, so you can get scripts that were recently added/updated on the BigAdmin hub from the wiki page
Dec 3, 2008 - SMF Short Cuts page updated by Henry Pepper
Dec 3, 2008 - Operating System and Open Source pages revamped, plus new OpenSolaris resources added
Dec 2, 2008 - Author bnsmb updated the Talking about RAM disks in the Solaris OS page in reply to russp's comment

November 2008

Nov 26, 2008 - Author bnsmb answered a question posted on the Using a SVM submirror on a ramdisk to increase read performance page
Nov 26, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Performance Considerations For Developers Utilizing Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers," added to Servers page
Nov 26, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Designing an Adaptive Security Architecture," added to Security page
Nov 26, 2008 - Solaris tip of the week, "Managing self-signed certificates," added to Operating System and Security pages
Nov 25, 2008 - Link to Solaris 8 Vintage Support Resource Center added to Operating System page
Nov 24, 2008 - A script to start and stop ramdisks in the Solaris OS by bnsmb
Nov 20, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying MySQL Database in Solaris Cluster Environments for Increased High Availability," added to Databases and Availability pages
Nov 18, 2008 - New Using a SVM submirror on a ramdisk to increase read performance by bnsmb
Nov 13, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Booting Over Infiniband for Consolidation Savings," added to HPC page
Nov 13, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "An Economic Approach to Maximizing Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System," added to Storage page
Nov 12, 2008 - Author's comment addresses impact of new ZFS root capability on BootDiskLayout recommendations
Nov 12, 2008 - New Adding xVM DomU support to a Solaris Live CD Distribution by bnsmb
Nov 6, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools With Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS File System," added to Storage and Filesystems pages
Nov 6, 2008 - Sun BluePrints paper, "MySQL Database Scale-out and Replication for High Growth Businesses," added to Databases page
Nov 6, 2008 - "Sun Storage J4000 Arrays as 3000-Mailbox Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 With LCR" added to Storage and Interoperability pages
Nov 4, 2008 - New script, Which files are in the boot_archive?" , by bnsmb

October 2008

Oct 31, 2008 - FAQ and video, "What's New in Solaris 10 10/08 OS," added to the Operating System and Filesystems pages
Oct 31, 2008 - Video or podcast, "ZFS Boot in Solaris 10 10/08 OS," added to Operating System and Filesystems pages
Oct 30, 2008 - Updated: Reference Lists for Solaris on x86 Device Support and Third-Party Solaris Device Drivers added to Devices and Peripherals page
Oct 29, 2008 - High Scalability web site added to Web Technologies page
Oct 29, 2008 - OpenSolaris System Administration Guide added to Open Source and Operating System pages
Oct 29, 2008 - BigAdmin's 11/11 LISA BoF session added to Community Events Calendar; Get a free 2-GB USB stick (supplies limited)
Oct 24, 2008 - Installing Solaris 10 5/08 OS on the IBM LS42 Blade Server by Lee Damico
Oct 23, 2008 - Solaris tip of the week, "Two forms of apache redirect," added to Operating System page
Oct 16, 2008 - "Deploying Sugar CRM Software on Logical Domains for Increased Scalablity" added to Virtualization page
Oct 14, 2008 - Linux.com Review, "OpenSolaris 2008.05 is robust and ready," "Top 5 unsuccessful searches on OpenSolaris 2008.05," and Triple Boot, Part 1: Planning" added to Open Source and Operating System pages
Oct 14, 2008 - VirtualBox and the ZFS Demonstration Tutorial added to the Filesystems and Virtualization pages
Oct 14, 2008 - OpenSolaris conference added to Community Events Calendar
Oct 13, 2008 - "Using Sun Java System Web Server With Sun Identity Manager and MySQL Software" added to Databases page
Oct 9, 2008 - "Setting Up MySQL Cluster Software Using Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology" and "Installation of MySQL 5.1 Cluster Software on the Solaris 10 OS for x64 Platforms" added to Databases page
Oct 9, 2008 - Solaris tip of the week, "IPNAT load balancer," added to Operating System page
Oct 9, 2008 - Solaris tip of the week, "Unique private subnets for your local zones," added to Operating System and Zones pages
Oct 8, 2008 - "Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS" and "OpenSolaris Project: Web Stack" added to LAMP-SAMP page
Oct 8, 2008 - xVM Roadshow and Sun Tech Days events added to Community Events Calendar
Oct 7, 2008 - ZFS Shortcuts for Noobs updated by RichardElling
Oct 6, 2008 - MilaX 0.3.2 SPARC LiveCD Available by alhazred
Oct 2, 2008 - Using "lsof" in the Real World by Chris Harrison
Oct 2, 2008 - Solaris tip of the week, "Create your own svr4 and ips packages," added to Operating System page
Oct 2, 2008 - Sun BluePrints article, "An Open Source Web Solution - Lighttpd Web Server and Chip Multithreading," added to Open Source and Servers pages

September 2008

Sept 26, 2008 - Building a Secure FTP Server by Ross Moffatt
Sept 15, 2008 - Does Sun Cluster Software Support Solaris 8 and 9 Containers and Linux Containers? FAQ added
Sept 12, 2008 - New Community Events Calendar added. Check it out and post your events!
Sept 12, 2008 - Solaris Tip of the Week, "Link Aggregation and Logical Interfaces," added to Operating System and Networking pages
Sept 12, 2008 - Sun BluePrints article "Provisioning with iSCSI and Solaris ZFS in 10 Minutes" added to Storage and Filesystems pages

Sept 11, 2008 - How to Create and Burn a DVD or CD with Solaris 9 Sparc by Ross Moffatt
Sept 10, 2008 - How to Cancel a Print Job When You Don't Know the Name of the Printer (in English and Portuguese)
Sept 8, 2008 - How to Move Old Files with Directory Structure in a Large Directory by Ross Moffatt
Sept 4, 2008 - New Mounting USB on Solaris 9 page
Sept 2, 2008 - Security tip for Monitoring Superuser Access added (in English and Portuguese) to Security page

August 2008

August 29, 2008 - Debug Native Code With Disassembler tip added to Troubleshoot page
August 14, 2008 - DHCP Jumpstart tip added to Installation page
August 14, 2008 - ZFS tip added to Filesystems page
August 14, 2008 - findit.sh added to Scripts page
August 14, 2008 - Role based access control (RBAC) tip added to Security page
August 14, 2008 - New Zones page
August 14, 2008 - New Upgrade page
August 14, 2008 - Solaris Tip of the Week added to Operating System page
August 11, 2008 - New Installing D-Link DFE-690TXD cardbus NIC page by Henry Pepper
August 7, 2008 - New links added to Power Management page