Ryan Pratt's Big Admin white paper "Setting Up a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance on Microsoft iSCSI Initiators" describes how to attach and use iSCSI targets from the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance using the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator software. This is possible since Microsoft supports iSCSI software for Microsoft Windows client/server environments.
Ryan Pratt has written two Big Admin papers on the development of a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance Storage Solution. One is for 1200 Exchange 2007 mailboxes and the other for 3000 Exchange 2007 mailboxes. Of both Ryan writes, "Not only does the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance provide a great performance/price ratio in a Microsoft Exchange environment, it can also serve the needs of any NFS, CIFS, file, print, or iSCSI attached application."
It has been seen as a problem that certain applications seem not to scale easily on Non-Uniform Memory Architectures (NUMA) since the addition of CPU cores does not proportionately increase application performance. Rickey C. Weisner has written an article, "Achieving Near-Linear Scalability Using Solaris OS on NUMA Architectures," that presents his success at increasing the performance on two different applications, one on a Sun SPARC E6900 and the other on an AMD Opteron X4600 machine.
In Dirk Grobler's Big Admin article "Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Demo With Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 (Beta)" readers will find a cookbook for building a demo using Sun's new desktop broker, the Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0, currently in beta.
If you've had questions about Solaris Trusted Extensions, there are answers at Solaris Trusted Extensions Technical FAQ, where Sharon Veach puts a number of possibly nagging queries to rest.
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