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November

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. See also:
ZFS Resources
Patching Improvements
Why Move to Solaris?

October

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.

September

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.

August

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.

July

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.

April

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.

March

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.