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Archived OpenStorage Articles

05 May 2010

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) on Sun Storage 7000 Systems [22953]
White Paper Reports Easy, Straightforward Configuration

"Setup, Tuning, Workload Performance Guide for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) on Sun Storage 7000 Systems" by Sanjay Gianchandani outlines the procedure for configuring the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database server to use Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems as a storage unit.
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28 Apr 2010

The Impact of ZFS Dedup Procedures on System Performance [22961]
First, Avoid Procedures that Generate Duplication

What performance characteristics are we expected to see from ZFS Storage appliance Dedup in the wake of the Sun Storage 7000 2010.Q1, asks Roch "Mars" Bourbonnais rhetorically in the blog "Dedup Performance Considerations." By way of coming up with an answer, he reviews the basics of ZFS dedup operations, then proceeds to an examination of the implications for performance.
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22 Apr 2010

Sun Storage 7000 2010.01 Release Integrates with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) [22942]
VSS Services Can Now be Performed on Sun Storage 7000 Storage Systems

The Sun Storage 7000 Provider for VSS Software 1.0 is a hardware provider that plugs into the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Framework on Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008, 64-bit or 32-bit variations. The integration with Microsoft VSS is part of the Sun Storage 7000 2010.Q1 release. Paul Monday describes the VSS and how it interacts with the Sun Storage 7000 Appliances.
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14 Apr 2010

Minor Update to Sun Storage 7000 2009.Q3 Released [23036]
Some Clustering and I/O Issues Fixed

Sun Storage 7000 2009.Q3.5.0 is a minor release that contains fixes for several clustering and core I/O issues, writes the Fishworks engineering team on its blog. Release notes have been posted as has the download. It is recommended for all customers running 2009.Q3 who are unable to upgrade to 2010.Q1. However, the 2010.Q1 release supersedes all releases of 2009.Q3, and it is strongly recommended to upgrade to 2010.Q1 instead of any 2009.Q3 release, including this one, if possible.
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12 Apr 2010

New Version of the Sun Unified Storage Simulator [23032]
Adds Support for VirtualBox

A new version of the Sun Storage 7000 simulator, now known as Oracle's Sun Unified Storage Simulator, is available with support changes. This release of the simulator provides support for VirtualBox and drops its support for VMware, reports Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal. This freely downloadable simulator is a way for users to install and manage a virtual storage system on any laptop or desktop and experience the Oracle-Sun Open Storage.
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07 Apr 2010

Sun Storage 7000 2010.Q1 Shows Marked Improvement in OLTP [22960]
Both Throughput and Variability Rates Improved

Among the improvements in Sun Storage 7000 2010.Q1 is one that involves configurations using shares or LUNs with small record sizes. Blogger David Lutz writes that the two most likely configurations to benefit from this change are OLTP databases, which typically configure the record size of a share to match the block size of the database, and iSCSI LUNs, which have a default block size of 8KB.
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