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Archived Sun SysAdmin Articles
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21 Apr 2008
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Capitalizing on Stored Information Through Sound Archiving Practices [19556]
Don't Just Store Data; Organize and Profit from It
The Sun white paper "Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information" examines the potential business value of information in the more than 30 exabytes of data currently stored in archives. The white paper promotes "intelligent archiving," which means archiving optimized for its business value.
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14 Apr 2008
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Optimizing MySQL Server [19758]
On Sun x64 Servers and Storage
Luojia Chen has written a Sun BluePrints Online paper on "Optimizing MySQL Server on Sun x64 Servers and Storage" that provides an overview of the integrated Sun platform, outlines the steps for optimizing MySQL Server on Sun x64 servers, and describes benchmark results for solutions with Sun Fire X4100 servers.
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14 Apr 2008
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Sun xVM Ops Center's Modules Introduced [19646]
Covers Management, Update, Provisioning and Gear Modules
The Sun xVM Central blog recently produced a series of entries introducing each of the four modules of the Sun xVM Ops Center: Management, Update, Provisioning and Gear.
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07 Apr 2008
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Deploying MySQL on the Solaris Cluster [19749]
Paper Covers Regression and Failover Testing as Well
Sun engineer Krish Shankar has posted a detailed paper on how to deploy HA MySQL on a Solaris Cluster. Shankar also considered regression and failover testing of HA MySQL, and describes the tests performed. He found that the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) fully supports MySQL and the HA cluster application agent for MySQL. The multi-threaded MySQL Open Source database consists of an SQL server, client programs and libraries, administrative tools, and APIs.
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07 Apr 2008
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Free Download of "Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology" [19751]
Look Beyond the 'Watts-Per-Square-Foot' Approach
"Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology," Rod Snevely's 220 page book, is now available as a free download. The book attempts to walk readers through the design process, offering a method for creating a design that meets the requirements of your data center. But rather than being a simple book of designs, the book is rather a tool to work through data center requirements and to discover solutions to create the best design for those requirements.
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07 Apr 2008
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Why Use MySQL? [19673]
The Top Reasons Users, CIOs and DBAs/SysAdmins Do
See why CIOs, DBAs and SysAdmins, along with users in general, choose to use the open source database MySQL. Their top reason are cited.
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07 Apr 2008
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Upgrading to the Solaris 10 OS Provides Triple Digit Savings Potential [19692]
Crimson Group Survey Reveals Striking Results
The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) has shown itself to be a source of extraordinary savings in a test conducted by the Crimson Consulting Group whose white paper on the OS reports ROI of 127% over five years for servers upgraded to the Solaris 10 OS. Crimson reports further that the potential exists for an additional 335% ROI if the upgrade was completed for all servers.
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03 Apr 2008
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Maximizing Performance of MySQL on the Solaris Platform [19557]
Tuning Storage Engine InnoDB for Optimal Performance
Now that MySQL is part of the Sun team, many are interested in trying out the database. For Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) users, Luojiia Chen has written an article that explains how you can maximize the performance of MySQL on the Solaris platform through configuration and tuning of the database server, along with optimizing the Solaris OS for MySQL.
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31 Mar 2008
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Handy DTrace Shell Commands [19594]
Brendan Gregg Offers Scripts
Robert Weeks has posted a summary of handy DTrace shell commands created by Brendan Gregg called one liners. These script commands can show you each time a new process is started (with arguments), when files opened and by which process, syscall counts by program, syscall counts by syscall, syscall count by process, read bytes by process, and many more.
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