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OpenSolaris Project: Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User Group

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Our Charter:

The Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User's Group (RTP-OSUG) charter is to drive OpenSolaris awareness and adoption within the Research Triangle Park area, targeting both the academic and the professional communities. There are a large number of Solaris installations in the area along with active open source advocacy groups including Linux User's Groups and a Perl Mongers group. Our goal is to create more awareness of OpenSolaris within these communities and within the RTP area.

Join Us...

Please consider joining our group! Whether you're a subject matter expert or a power user or just interested in learning about OpenSolaris, join us, participate and contribute as we develop the OpenSolaris community in Research Triangle Park.

The email aliases for the Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User's Group are hosted at opensolaris.org. To subscribe, visit the mail list subscription sites:

• ug-rtp-announce for announcements (low traffic).
• ug-rtp-discuss for discussions (higher traffic).

Our primary focus will be to present and demonstrate OpenSolaris technology to the community. We will engage the business and academic communities to schedule interesting and informative technology presentations.

We will meet on the first Tuesday of each month from 11:30am-1:30pm beginning July 1st, 2008,

Meeting Place and Times:

The Oct. 7 meeting will be held at the Sun Cary Office
Address: 1225 Crescent Green - Suite 125 Cary, NC
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We will be meeting in the Tar Heels Conf Room.

Contacts:

Vic Engle	victor dot engle at gmail dot com
Derrick Shultz	dshultzrtp at gmail dot com
Jason Schroeder	Jason dot Schroeder at sun dot com
Mike Watkins	mike dot watkins at sun dot com

Next Meeting Oct 7, 2008:

Oct 7, 2008 - Jonathan Sherman of Hosted Solutions will be discussing Solaris Branded Containers
Solaris containers is a Sun virtualization technology that allows creation of multiple OS instances of the same Solaris install. Branded Containers extends this idea beyond multiple OS instances running the same kernel and patchlevel. Current Solaris Branded containers include: Solaris 8 & 9 branded containers as well as Linux Branded containers.

Tentative Agenda
- Solaris Branded Containers Intro
- Using Branded Containers in production
- Installation & Configuration Tips
- P2V methodology / container migration

Useful links:
OpenSolaris Community: BrandZ
FAQs for the Solaris 8 Containers and Solaris 9 Containers
Demo, Blueprints, Howtos

Future Meetings

Nov 4, 2008 - We're looking for ideas. If you have an idea for the September meeting or any subsequent meeting please let us know.

Additional details coming soon. Stay tuned...

We have a few ideas for future presentations and will get them scheduled and posted here soon. Meanwhile if you have an interesting OpenSolaris project or topic you'd like to present or see presented please send an email to one of the contacts listed on this page or to one of the mailing lists.

Useful Links
DTrace on opensolaris.org
DTrace on BigAdmin