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This article shows how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using ZFS snapshots and the OpenSolaris OS.

Learn the basics of application memory management on Solaris, and avoid and resolve common memory usage problems.

The Interrupt Resource Management (IRM) feature, which optimizes the use of interrupt vectors to improve IO performance, is available in OpenSolaris build 107 and is scheduled for the Solaris 10 10/09 OS for SPARC platforms.

You can use the busstat command in the Solaris 10 OS to monitor performance counters for the UltraSPARC T2 Plus External Coherency Hub on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server.

Learn how to configure the bundled DHCP server provided in the Solaris OS or the SUNWdhcs package for the OpenSolaris OS.

This paper describes how to deploy the Amanda Enterprise product from Zmanda on a Sun Fire X4500 server using ZFS. This scenario uses ZFS snapshots to improve backup performance.

This Sun tech tip provides a workaround for using the GUI during boot or during installation of the Solaris 10 5/09 OS on the IBM HS22 Type 7870 Blade Server.

This Sun BluePrints article shows how to scale a medium-sized Web 2.0 site with a million registered users with open-source technologies, and includes detailed configuration and tuning information for the deployment. (Login or registration required.)

Bernard Traversat, director of Java Store engineering, shows how easy it is for developers to register for the Java Warehouse Developer Portal. Note: As the Java Store process is in beta, some steps may have changed slightly since this screencast was recorded.

Pessimistic locking is now supported. Learn about this and the other new and enhanced locking and concurrency features in JPA 2.0.