Users looking for a cost efficient way to deliver a large amount of data quickly should read on. This article demonstrates a "proof-of-concept study" that provides cost-efficient solutions to businesses by configuring Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) tools and the MySQL database that uses the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for storage.

Sun provides configuration details that show users how to share NFS and iSCSI file systems with Pentaho BI and MySQL database servers, and how to use the Solaris 10 Operating System to deploy MySQL servers on Sun SPARC and x86 servers.

About Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage

Storage solutions are often quite costly and businesses are often seeking ways to improve how they manage data without sacrificing reliability. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is cost efficient, reliable, scalable, eco-friendly, and easy to manage.

"The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product family includes the Sun Storage 7110, 7210, and 7410 Unified Storage System models. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System incorporates an open source operating system, commodity hardware, and industry-standard technologies. These systems are low-cost, fully functional network attached storage (NAS) devices," said Krishnan Shankar, article author.

About Pentaho BI Suite

The Pentaho BI Suite comes loaded with a full profile of business intelligence solutions for data integration, which Extracts, Transforms, and Loads (ETL) data. This software can be used to complete the following tasks:

• Reporting
• Data analysis
• Dashboards
• Data mining capabilities
• And More

Article Contents

• Objective/Introduction
• Hardware Configuration
• Software Configuration
• Configuration Test Procedures
• Configuring a Project on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Configuring for NFS on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Configuring for iSCSI on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Configuring for NFS on the Solaris Client
• Configuring for iSCSI on the Solaris Client
• Configuring MySQL on the Solaris Client
• Configuring VNC Software on the Solaris Client
• Configuring Apache Tomcat and the MySQL Connector on the Solaris Client
• Configuring Pentaho Data Integration on the Windows Client
• Configuring Pentaho Reports Designer on the Solaris Client
• Configuring Mondrian OLAP Server on the Solaris Client
• Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Other Sun Technologies (Solaris 10 OS, Sun Fire Servers, MySQL)
• Pentaho Business Intelligence
• Summary

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