Best Practices for Moving to the Solaris 10 Operating System

This Sun BluePrints article describes the available technologies and approaches, from a simple system upgrade to a consolidation strategy using built-in virtualization technology. (Login required.)

Updated DTrace Resource Center

BigAdmin has gathered a useful collection of documentation, blogs, articles, and more.

Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09

Sun announces the availability of Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09, the best high availability platform for the Solaris OS with new innovative features, addressing your high availability needs for end -to-end business solutions in a virtualized or traditional environment.

Joomla! Deployment Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Install and configure the open-source Joomla! Content Management System with Sun's Unified Storage systems. The Sun servers in this setup run the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release and PHP, MySQL, and Apache web server from pkg.opensolaris.org.

Upgrading to Solaris 10?

Find out why it's a good idea, what's involved, what you'll need to know, and what to do with your legacy applications.

Case Study: Web Application Tuning on Chip Multithreading Platforms

Use jstack and tune your Web applications to prevent performance bottlenecks on chip multithreading (CMT) platforms.

Getting Started With the OpenSolaris OS

OpenSolaris expert Brian Leonard explains how to get started with the OpenSolaris operating system.

Tutorial: DTrace by Example

This tutorial uses DTrace, a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the Solaris 10 OS, to analyze several applications and shows how its use can improve performance.

Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) Feature in the OpenSolaris OS

The Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) feature, which optimizes the use of interrupt vectors to improve IO performance, is available in OpenSolaris build 107 and is scheduled for the Solaris 10 10/09 OS for SPARC platforms.

Installing Solaris 10 5/09 OS on IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server

This Sun tech tip provides a workaround for using the GUI during boot or during installation of the Solaris 10 5/09 OS on the IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server.

Monitoring Performance Counters for UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub Architecture

You can use the busstat command in the Solaris 10 OS to monitor performance counters for the UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server.

Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System

This Sun BluePrints article shows how to scale a medium-sized Web 2.0 site with a million registered users with open-source technologies, and includes detailed configuration and tuning information for the deployment. (Login or registration required.)

Configuring the DHCP Server for the Solaris OS or OpenSolaris OS

Learn how to configure the bundled DHCP server provided in the Solaris OS or the SUNWdhcs package for the OpenSolaris OS.

Solaris Application Memory Management

Learn the basics of application memory management on Solaris, and avoid and resolve common memory usage problems.

Using Amanda Enterprise 3.0 With OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS

This paper describes how to deploy the Amanda Enterprise product from Zmanda on a Sun Fire X4500 server using ZFS. This scenario uses ZFS snapshots to improve backup performance.

Using Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS

This article shows how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using ZFS snapshots and the OpenSolaris OS.

A Planning Guide for Moving to LDAP as Naming Service in the Solaris OS

Moving from Network Information Service (NIS) or NIS+ to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)? Read this first. Topics include DIT design and implementation of a hybrid DIT.

Sun's Open Network Systems Launch

Solaris 10 OS and OpenSolaris have been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for the new Open Network Systems. Get more information and download the new Sun BluePrint.

Managing Boot Environments With OpenSolaris Package Manager

Learn how to manipulate BEs for convenience and transparency; update software in a BE; clone, create, or delete BEs; and set a BE as default.

Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application

Use NetBeans IDE 6.5 and GlassFish v3 Prelude to create a Ruby-on-Rails Web application in OpenSolaris 2008.11 without typing a single line of code.

LOFS Mounted Platform-Specific Routine Libraries With CMT UltraSPARC Processor-Based Systems

Multiple versions of platform-specific routine (PSR) libraries (per platform, per processor) can be used with chip multithreading (CMT) UltraSPARC processor-based systems running the Solaris 10 OS, so that each processor is optimally utilized.

Working With Multiple Boot Environments on the OpenSolaris OS

With the OpenSolaris beadm utility, you can efficiently create, modify, or delete multiple boot environments with different system configurations and switch back and forth among them with ease. Note: This article has been updated to reflect the file structure in OpenSolaris 2008.11.

Introducing pfexec, a Convenient Utility in the OpenSolaris OS

Passwordless pfexec is the OpenSolaris version of Linux's sudo. Learn how to assign the appropriate rights profile to users so that they can execute commands with root privileges by prepending pfexec to the commands without becoming root. Note: This article has been updated with clarifications.

Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS

Sun Web Stack contains numerous preconfigured tools (Apache, MySQL, PHP, NetBeans IDE, and others) for developing and deploying applications. This article describes how to install and initialize the stack on OpenSolaris.

Writing Your First Web Application Using PHP on the Solaris OS

Create a sample program using PHP on the Solaris OS with the NetBeans 6.0 IDE.

Introduction to Solaris and opensolaris.org

An introduction to the Solaris Operating Environment and the OpenSolaris open source project.

Solaris Cluster 3.2 2/08 is now available !

The 1st update of Solaris Cluster 3.2 increases flexibility, ease of use and extends virtualization support.

New! Ruby Developer Resource Center

Just learning or already deploying? Get downloads, docs, news feeds, blogs, screencasts, and learning trails to help you build applications using Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby-on-Rails.

Atomic SPARC: Using the SPARC Atomic Instructions

This article introduces the SPARC memory model and atomic instructions, then implements some IBM AIX interfaces for use on the Solaris OS (SPARC Platform Edition).

NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest

Start blogging about NetBeans IDE 6.1 and win some fabulous prizes. Download NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta