In their latest release Nexenta added support for ZFS boot. I also wrote an article about how to clone and boot another ZFS file system. The process is quite simple but it still contains a number of steps.
To make things even easier I decided to write a script to automate the process. This can be […]
I recently wrote about the newly released NexentaCP. One of the new great features is the integrated ZFS boot in the installer. You can now get a ZFS boot capable system with no work at all.
The default installation of Nexenta will create a ZFS pool called syspool and your root file system will be called […]
Thanks to a post by Graeme Mathieson in his fabulous blog Notes from a messy desk I found out that VMware has ported their virtualization product to OSX. It is called Fusion and currently they are running a open beta program. Since I use a MacBook for all my desktop work at home I thought […]
A lot of the content of this blog will focus on Solaris because I will utilize quite of lot the advanced features, e.g zones, zfs and DTrace. Today you can get Solaris in quite a lot of different flavors, Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris and Nexenta to name a few. Personally I run Solaris 10 but any […]
