Topic: DTrace Deep Dive and a short talk on LDOM Domains and ZFS

When:
Burlington MA Sun Campus – Feb 2, 2010 6:00PM to 9:00 PM
Boston MA – Boston University – Feb 3, 2010 6:00PM to 9:00 PM
(Note: The same content will be presented twice – once in Burlington and once in Boston. Pick the best location and date as convenient.)

Where:
Feb 2 – Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus; 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA
Feb 3 – Boston University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Photonics Center Building – Room PHO 339 (3rd floor), 8 Saint Mary’s Street Boston, MA 02215
BU Parking: Street parking available on St. Mary’s Street and Bay State Road. Metered parking spots do not require a fee after 6pm.

RSVP: To Linda Wendlandt: lwendlandt@cptech.com

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

Join Jim Mauro and Shannon Sylvia for how-to DTrace, and how to use LDOMs with ZFS.

AGENDA:

6:00-6:20: Registration, Pizza and Beverages

6:20-6:30: Introductions: Peter Galvin, CTO, Corporate Technologies

6:30-8:30: Solaris Dynamic Tracing – DTrace – Jim Mauro, Principle Engineer, Sun Microsystems

8:30-9:00: LDOM Domains and ZFS: An example of creating a ZFS bootable root LDOM domain using jumpstart – Shannon Sylvia, Sysadmin, Northeastern University

9:00 Q&A and Discussion

Also we’ll be giving out official NEOSUG T-Shirts and other trinkets, and copies of the OpenSolaris CD and instruction manual.

For more information see the NEOSUG discussion forum.

We’ve just announced the next NEOSUG (New England Open Solaris User’s Group) meeting

You Are Invited to the New England Open Solaris Users Group

Topic: All Virtualization all the Time

When: October 6th, 2009 6:00PM to 9:00 PM

Where: Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus; 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA

RSVP: To Linda Wendlandt: lwendlandt at cptech dot com lwendlandt@cptech.com

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

Join Eric Sharakan, Kais Belgaied, and Peter Galvin in an update on LDOMs, Solaris on Xen, project Crossbow (network virtualization), and Solaris Containers.

AGENDA:

6:00-6:20: Registration, Pizza and Beverages

6:20-6:30: Introductions: Peter Galvin, CTO, Corporate Technologies

6:30-7:30: Presentation: Logical Domains & Solaris on Xen – Eric Sharakan, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

7:30-8:00: Presentation: Crossbow – Kais Belgaied, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

8:00-8:30: Presentation: Solaris containers – Peter Galvin, CTO – IT Architecture, Corporate Technologies

**** Also we’ll be giving out official NEOSUG T-Shirts and other trinkets, and copies of the OpenSolaris CD and instruction manual.

For more details on the talks please visit the NEOSUG web site at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ne-osug/

You are invited to: The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting

When: June 23rd, 2009 6:00PM to 9:00 PM

Where: Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus; 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA

RSVP: To Linda Wendlandt: lwendlandt at cptech dot com lwendlandt@cptech.com

Registration Required! – so we can plan food and drink

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We’ve rescheduled the sixth NEOSUG meeting for March 11. Dave Miner will talk about the state of OpenSolaris and demo some new functionality, and I’ll talk about what’s new in the Solaris 10 update 6 (11/08) release. Hope to see you there. For full details and registration info have look at the NEOSUG discussion forum.