The latest Operating System that Oracle has in store for all of us System Administrators can now be tried out now. Oracle Solaris 11 Express is the latest OS offering that focuses on these key technologies:

Having a Mission-Critical Environment means a system downtime could mean a lot. Here comes the high availability comes in, and with clustering this give our service availability very high. In the upcoming Solaris 11, high availability is the main focus of Oracle. Solaris Cluster covers a lot of applications, zfs and virtualized zones.

The product pages for Oracle’s M-Series of SPARC servers are now online! These boxes now include the latest SPARC technology in the name of SPARC64 VII+ quad-core processor. Based from their site:

The battle of the smartphones for the consumer’s money is very high. Each company will always bet for their latest and greatest products to make us buy. But when it comes to users, it is so funny how they see each other when it comes to using such smartphone or should I say superphones. It looks like this image tells it all (and which side are you???):

The last time we discussed on how to access the HP iLO. But we need CLI commands for us to be able to further troubleshoot our hardware. Just like we did for Sun / Oracle ALOM – here are the commands that one can use for HP iLO.

When your work is related to computer either your a developer, sysadmin, hacker, artist, consultant, or programmer – let’s admit it, we all have our own little spare time. Here is an illustration that I saw while wandering around the web.

There are times that we really rely on the manual (man) pages when it comes to getting the right options for a certain command under UNIX boxes. But when it comes to Sun/Oracle Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) we can count on with the help command. Here are the commands that you can have with Sun/Oracle Advanced Lights Out Manager

There are times that we need to do maintenance on a system and we need to connect to its hardware or system controller. With HP boxes they are called HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO).

It has been a while that I’m gone but the wait is over. Expect more relevant posts and (hopefully) frequent updates from your friendly UNIX SysAdmin from UNIX Note.

Just wandering around the web and saw this image and really made my day. Being an Android user and previous iOS user – I can tell the difference. Not that I would like to compare both OS, but I just want to share this image.