Oh… I am really looking forward to getting more information about that new Solaris 11.4 dashboard and internal stats command. Just a quick view with: # svcadm enable webui/server gives you a nice BUI to click around at https://<IP:6787> with some drilldowns…

If you missed it; great news in the last days around Solaris 11.next… a public BETA for 11.4 is out: https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-beta-released I am ready to install it on my demo boxes… great features to test… will post some outcomes…

In the last couple of weeks the whole IT was shocked getting news about security issues based on basic CPU architecture design covering “all” processor vendors… Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) vulnerabilities affected…