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MCA Tips Feed. Using hypervisor-based virtualization and Oracle Solaris Zones with network virtualization plus network resource management enables a whole range of network-based architectures. This article describes what's involved in using network resource management in conjunction with hypervisors, containers, and zones in an internal virtual network.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/network...

MCA Tips Feed. How to import an Oracle Solaris 11 image into VirtualBox, how to configure the virtual machine settings, and how to explore the interesting features of Oracle Solaris 11 from within VirtualBox. Covers user management, networking, service management, and even VirtualBox guest additions. By Yuli Vasiliev

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/evaluat...

MCA Tips Feed. Oracle T10000C Data Integrity Validation (DIV) uses hardware-assisted CRC checks to ensure that data, regardless of where it's coming from, is written correctly the first time and with much greater efficiency. Brian Zents explains.

Direct link: https://blogs.oracle.com/OTNGarage/entry/hardware_assisted_crc_checking

MCA Tips Feed. You can use Oracle Solaris Cluster to create high-availability clusters of logical domains in two ways: by simply configuring the logical domains as a cluster, or by setting up Oracle Solaris Cluster inside the control domain of Oracle VM Server for SPARC. The second approach offers significant benefits, as described here.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/howto-c...

MCA Tips Feed. Apache Hadoop helps you process large amounts of data on multiple computers that are clustered together. Oracle Solaris zones are easy to clone and manage as a cluster. Oracle Solaris 11 has great network virtualization capabilities. Orgad walks you through all the steps required to combine these three technologies into an easy to manage big data cluster.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/howto-s...

MCA Tips Feed. You can use Oracle Solaris Cluster to create high-availability clusters of logical domains in two ways: by simply configuring the logical domains as a cluster, or by setting up Oracle Solaris Cluster inside the control domain of Oracle VM Server for SPARC. The second approach offers significant benefits, as described here.

Direct link: http://www-content.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin...

MCA Tips Feed. Robert Chase walks you through the steps required to install Oracle Linux from a USB stick. Includes the script you need to create the key for the USB drive.

Direct link: https://blogs.oracle.com/OTNGarage/entry/how_to_install_oracle_linux

MCA Tips Feed. Page 2 in this documentation summarizes the changes in ILOM (Integrated Lights Out Manager) 3.1 over 3.0, with links to the details. A handy-dandy reference from our kind doc folks.

Direct link: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24707_01/pdf/E24521.pdf

MCA Tips Feed. Alta Elstad walks you through the steps to upgrade an Oracle Solaris 11 repository with 11.1 packages.

Direct link: https://blogs.oracle.com/OTNGarage/entry/how_to_upgrade_an_oracle

MCA Tips Feed. More about the dm-nfs kernel module, courtesy of Lenz Grimmer. If you want to work with block-based shared storage devices such as ocfs2, but you don't have iSCSI or SAN storage, you can use NFS, instead. Just create an NFS file that will contain the block-based shared storage device. In fact, you can create several shared storage devices that way. And use the "dm nfs" utility to create a device map. Lenz Grimmer expands on Wim's original blog.

Direct link: https://blogs.oracle.com/OTNGarage/entry/simplify_your_storage_managemen...