Posts for: #Openindiana

Introduction to illumos - Oct 17, 2012 - Raleigh, NC

2012-10-16

I will be speaking Wednesday night at the http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-DevOps/ group’s October meeting, hosted by http://webassign.net. The topic is “Introduction to illumos”. I’m expecting this to be a gentle introduction to the illumos world f…

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bonnie++ on on Frankenbox vs. HP Proliant N40L

2012-09-30

#illumos #microserver #n40l #openindiana #performance #proliant #unix #zfs

I’ve got a few OpenIndiana boxes kicking around at the house, and I got to thinking that maybe my rather modern HP Proliant N40L with mirrored Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB disks and 8GB of RAM wasn’t all that speedy.

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Discovering SmartOS

2012-02-14

#howto #illumos #joyent #kvm #linux #nexenta #openindiana #opensource #smartos #solaris #sysadmin #unix #virtualization #zones

As I’ve alluded to previously, I’ve been exploring Joyent’s target="_blank" lately. I’d like to talk a little bit more about it. It seems to me that a lot of my peers haven’t yet heard about it, or don’t really understand it much at all. The docum…

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