SunOS Rises Again, Better than Ever!

After 15 months of bozos whacking away with power tools…

YAY!! And yes, my 2008 Hybrid Mercury Mariner has “Solaris” license plates. And yes, that is a 1975 Bricklin SV1 Gullwing in the background, and no, I haven’t touched it in 3 years, and yes, if you’d like to take it off my hands, I would entertain offers.

bill.

Back to the real world…

I spent the past couple of months working on a project that had way too many lawyers involved. I didn’t want to blog about it, as dealing with lawyers and “content review” for everything I decided to write during the project would have made my head explode.

Now that the project is finished, and the intellectual property sharks are done reviewing and blessing things, I feel a bit more open about sharing my experiences. I did get to work with a a great geek who also happens to be an actor. I learned a ton about storage and cloud-like things using virtualization layers.

Since the project finished, I have been working with the xVM Server folks on the Early Access Program, details here and here.

I’ll throw some screen shots and info up soon. For now, I have a borrowed, single CPU, dual core, 8GB memory x2200 M2, sitting in a datacenter 1500 miles away to run my tests on. As of today, it is running the xVM Server software (EA2), with Solaris 10 update 6, a Solaris Express Community Edition release (Nevada 101a), Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Edition, and Windows Server 2008 x64 Datacenter Edition. All on the same machine. All managed from a single desktop filled with console windows. My Windows Server guest systems even have remote console working, with decent performance to my desktop at home over VPN.

Yay!

bill.