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Archived OpenStorage Articles
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13 Nov 2009
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Sun Storage 7000 Software Update Supports Infiniband HCAs [22397]
Assessing Read/Write Performance as a Function of Workload
Infiniband IPoIB datalink partition and IP interface configuration is easy and painless using the same network BUI page or CLI contexts as ethernet, says Fishworks blogger Cindi in her update on "Infiniband for Q3.2009." Port GUID information is available for configured partitions on the network page, she continues, which makes it easy to add Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System HCA ports to a partition table on a subnet manager.
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07 Oct 2009
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Shadow Migration [22388]
Integrated Way to Migrate Data from Existing Systems to New Systems
Fishworks team member Eric Schrock defines shadow migration - one of the major new features in the Sun Storage 7000 2009.Q3 software release. Schrock explains this project's conception, development, and birth in a blog entry that outlines the feature's choice of migrating via interposition versus synchronization, and provides an overview of how shadow migration works.
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06 Oct 2009
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VMware ESX Server With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System [22307]
Methods for Performing Array-based Backup and Recovery
The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System comes with snapshot, clone, rollback, and replication features. Learn how to use these components of Sun's open storage system in array-based backup and recovery operations for VMware ESX Server and VMware vSphere virtual machine environments in a BigAdmin feature article by Ryan Arneson.
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29 Sep 2009
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Employing Open, Simple, and Scalable Storage [22385]
White Paper on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
The Sun white paper "Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: Architected for Open, Simple, and Scalable Enterprise Storage" details the key architectural aspects of Sun's Open Storage family of products. The paper covers ZFS technology and its relation to Hybrid Storage Pools, Enterprise Solid State Storage Devices, and DTrace Analytics. It also highlights some of the main features of the Sun Storage 7110, 7210, 7310, and 7410 Unified Storage Systems. Readers will be introduced to the Sun Storage 7000 Storage Software, which is a full complement of storage software and is included with the system at no additional cost.
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23 Sep 2009
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Sun Enhances Its Unified Storage Systems [22383]
Offers as Much as 30% Increase in Performance
Sun is adding a 30 percent performance boost to Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System with the addition of new CPUs providing up to 24 cores. Enhancements include improved application performance through enhanced iSCSI SAN support and a boost in performance for Oracle databases. Higher network performance can be achieved with up to four times more bandwidth (40Gb/sec) and lower network latency through InfiniBand (IB), along with twice the DRAM cache - up to 512GB.
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