Posts Tagged ‘solaris’

HP Media Vault Retired

After, not much over 1 year, I am retiring my Media Vault . Having a network attached storage is a briliant idea. I am staying with it. It’s just the Media Vault product. Slow death. After half a year, a small fan has broken and since then it became loud, I have contacted HP to [...]

Monitoring your systems

If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type. For some thoughts about the second type, read more

SVN and Solaris 10

One word: Nightmare! How on Earth, can I install SVN/Subversion on that bloody operating system , so it will include bindings for either Perl or Ruby ?! fighting with it for last two days… finally got source to at least compile  … but even if I have Ruby ( from CSW ) and Perl ( [...]

SVN auto publishing to Windows servers

I need to setup a system which uses SVN for storing ‘website’ revisions and automatically updates live/review/development systems whenever there is commit. Adding a little bit of complication each server is updated from different branch. If website serving boxes would be any kind of UNIX, this post would not exist… way too easy. Web servers [...]

My Solaris experience … so far

Solaris … The operating system… I have a server, test server at work, with Solaris 10 6/06 on it and I am playing with it. ZFS, no problem, really great thing spanning across 4 drives with raidz(or zraid) , yam. Zones or how some write, containers. Also great thingy. Containing different functionality on a same [...]