My August 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about Solaris System Analysis – a checklist approach to solving a system being “slow” or “busted”. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: August 2008, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here for those without a USENIX membership (although I strongly recommend you get one if you are interested in all things Unix).
I hope this column will turn into a living wiki about (Solaris) system analysis. I’ve prepopulated a wiki with the contents of the column, so now it’s up to you to add your thoughts to the procedure. It would be a great advance in systems administration if there was a canonocal source of first-step debugging information, and hopefully you will help make this wiki that source: http://wiki.sage.org/bin/view/Main/AllThingsSun
Peter Baer Galvin's Blog 
August 29, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Good Evening Mr. Galvin,
As I read through your blog’s, I came to a thought/conclusion that you are a very highly intellegant person within the IT world. As we all know, every year that passes, IT is strong and much more modern. I would like to ask, What would happen to Solaris 10 years from now?
This might be a wierd question but I just had that thought while reading through your posting.
September 5, 2013 at 5:15 am
Peter,I’ve just finished rnediag your articles and I was glad to see this comparison of the data center operating system market. I’ve always been a fan of your articles and pass them on to as many folks as I can.The virtualization overview raises some questions for me, especially around KVM. KVM is a hardware-assisted virtualization technology, providing access to the underlying capabilities of the processor. In this, it is much like LDOMs on T series SPARC systems. KVM will not function well on CPUs that do not include the hardware virtualization extensions. The RHEV product uses the same KVM technology for the hypervisor layer. While the resulting configuration more resembles Containers than LDOMs, the technology more closely maps to LDOMs. The use of VMware to achieve this style of virtualization is not necessary.With Xen moving out of the maintained RHEL stream, there is no supported purely software virtualization solution for Red Hat.