[ug-discuss] The fifth meeting of the Sydney Open Solaris User Group

[Alan Hargreaves]

Date: Wednesday, January 25
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Sun Solution (formally iForce) Centre. Ground floor 33 Berry 
St, North Sydney

See http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/sosug for a link 
to a map.

Speakers
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James McPherson

     James will be speaking on "Getting to know the SAN stack".

         Sun's SAN Foundation Kit (SFK) is presented, from the hardware
	(hba) up to the application level (userland). We demonstrate
	the way your data gets to and from your storage, and present
	basic SFK debugging techniques using code from the OpenNWS
	consolidation that will soon be hosted at www.opensolaris.org.

     James is a developer with the Data Management Group and and has
     been with Sun for just over six years.

Brendan Gregg

     Brendan will be speaking on "Zone Resource Controls".

         Zones are great for server consolidation. Picture migrating
	ten application servers onto one. Now picture application
	wars, where they wrestle for resources with survival of the
	fattest. There are several resource control techniques that
	not only allow applications to coexist peacefully, but allow
	you control how they use resources. I'll summarise how Zone
	Resource Controls currently work.

     When Brendan is not teaching Solaris topics, he spends time
     playing with DTrace and the DTrace toolkit.

Alan Hargreaves

     If time permits Alan will speak briefly about "Progress on the
     Non-debug build front".

         Since we released the code, it's only been possible to build a
	debug version of OpenSolaris. Well, that's not quite true.
	There is a way to build a mostly non-debug version using
	binaries that are already available. I'll also touch on
	progress being made towards making a set of closed non-debug
	binaries available more formally.

     Alan is a staff engineer for the kernel group in Product Technical
     Support.

Notes
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     * The security and safety folks have asked me to ensure that
       people visiting the iForce Centre sign in when they arrive and
       sign out when they leave. This is a safety issue so we know who
       is in the building. The sign in book is at the front desk inside
       the glass doors.
     * The main doors lock at about 6:00pm, so we'll make sure that we
       have someone near them to allow entry to the building.
-- 
Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta
Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance Staff Engineer
Product Technical Support (APAC)
Sun Microsystems