Amanda Enterprise Edition from Zmanda is a powerful, low-cost, open source backup and recovery system to protect Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac environments using a single management console. By providing a backup and recovery solution that combines fast installation, simplified management, enterprise-class functionality, and low-cost subscription fees the Amanda Enterprise Edition, is an open source product that uses only standard formats and tools, effectively allowing users to recover archived data without the hassle of vendors.

With explosive data growth, and demanding requirements for availability, IT operation staffs are very busy. Usually it is hard to come by a staff or budget that can handle the complexity and price of backup storage and recovery software technology.

With the Sun Fire X4540 server, users can rely on massive storage capacity and acclaimed throughput with this storage platform for backup and restoring applications. If used with Solaris 10 the server offers data integrity and simplified administration of ZFS, as well as similar file systems. Sun Fire X4540 is useful when trying to streamline and improve backup and restoring operations.

There is a quick-start guide provided as an introduction to configuring the Sun Fire X4540 server as a backup server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise Edition 2.6 software provided by Sun. The article gives step by step examples used to configure zpools and ZFS file systems on the Solaris 10 OS. The 19 page PDF will also explain installing Amanda Enterprise Edition to utilize the Sun Fire X4540 server further. The contents of the article are:

• Solaris OS Configuration
• Zpool Configuration
• ZFS Configuration
• Amanda Enterprise Edition Configuration
• Amanda Enterprise Edition Monitoring and Reporting
• Recovery Using the Zmanda Management Console

The Sun Fire X4540

When looking for extreme data access speed, preferably in a compact package and low price, the Sun Fire X4540 storage sever is often Sun clients' number one choice. With eight cores of AMD Opteron processing and 48TB of storage in a 4RU server, the Sun Fire X4540 gives twice the capacity in half the space at half the cost of the competition. The Sun Fire X4540 is praised for its:

• Dual Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
• 48 integrated SATA disk drives onboard
• Scalability from 12TB to 48TB in a 4U rack space
• Highest throughput rates that reach 2.0GB/s from disks to network, and 3.0GB/s to memory
• Compact size and low cost
• Competitive prices: $1.20/GB, including server
• Ability to Run Solaris OS, Linux, and Windows operating systems

More Information

Sun FireTM X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda\'s Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software

Sun Fire X4540 Overview

BigAdmin Storage Resource Collection

Sun Storage web site

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