Overview Solaris 11.2 (beta) has some powerful network virtualization features. We use zones quite a bit at work, but on the network side with zones we have mostly used anet configurations where VNICs are auto-created, perhaps also specifying a VLAN id. Powerful, easy, and best of all, very efficient configuration and virtualization. But that only scratches…
Read More →In my workplace we host a large number of customers running a complex application against an Oracle database (11.2.0.3) on Solaris 11. Each customer is in their own database, running multiple database on a server. Each of these databases has a link to a common lookup database (really, several identical lookup databases that they can…
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