Cecil Jacobs will present a tutorial on this valuable, time saving tool and actually demonstrate a Live Upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.

Solaris Live Upgrade significantly reduces the downtime associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance. It enables the Solaris Operating Systems to continue to run while an administrator upgrades to the latest release of the Operating System, applies patches or does routine maintenance on the inactive or duplicate boot environment. When satisfied with the process, the administrator simply reboots the system to run the latest or updated operating environment.

* Solaris Live Upgrade technology reduces the usual service outage typically associated with an operating system upgrade. * Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0 integration with Web Start Flash technology enables system administrators to install a complete pre-tested, pre-configured system image rapidly on a new inactive boot environment while the production boot environment is fully operational.
* Solaris Live Upgrade supports fallback to previous environment in case of failure with the upgraded environment. Administrators can reload their previous environments and with a simple reboot if necessary.

Cecil Jacobs has 19 years of experience in the computer industry with background in structured programming for the USAF, followed by 7 years of hand-on field experience with Sun and other Unix solutions for military, government and commercial customers. Cecil has been with Sun for 5 years with duties ranging from pre-sales systems engineering to one of 50 Data Management Ambassadors.

The Sun user community in Richmond is growing, and you are an important part of it! We look forward to your participation in the User's Group and are confident that you will find it technically enriching. Bring an associate. Just RSVP below.

LOCATION: GE Financial Assurance, in the GFA building (6630 West Broad St.) on the sixth floor (GEFA U). GE Financial Assurance is located on West Broad Street in the Brookfield Office Park. After turning at the light on Broad Street and entering the Brookfield Complex...you should stay in the left lane and turn left at the stop sign. Follow the road around past the Sheraton to the 6630 building toward the back of the campus. Turn left for Visitor Parking. Additional parking is located on the far side of the building as well. Please enter at the front main entrance.

For directions to 6630 West Broad St. go to the following URL:
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/ddResults.py?Pyt=Tmap&tarname=&tardesc=&tarhash=&taraddr=6630+West+Broad+St&tarcsz=Richmond,+VA+23230-1702&newtcountry=us&newcountry=us&doit=1

RSVP: Please send an email RSVP at RSVP@RichmondSparc.org. You can also RSVP via the web site. We need to have a list of attendees for the Security Guards at GE Financial Assurance. THANKS!

For additional information about the Richmond SPARC Users Group, please visit http://www.RichmondSparc.org/. We hope to see you there!