The ZFS Guides Addresses Configuration, Best Practices, Tuning, Troubleshooting, Database
Solaris Internals has a selection of guides on ZFS to help educate users on several aspects of ZFS use, including ZFS Configuration, ZFS Best Practices, ZFS Tuning, ZFS Troubleshooting, and ZFS for Databases. An overview of the topics contained in each and links to these resources are provided.
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An IBM article comparing AIX 6.1, Solaris 10 and HP-UX incites Blogspot host Robert Milkowski, who decides to dissect the piece, to offer his opinion and identify inaccuracies. Some of Milkowski's contentions with the article are the lack of Solaris innovations identified and comparison of ZFS to IBM's JFS2. Kudos are given to IBM's marketing strategy not only by this blog's author but by a couple of the commenters as well.
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Logical Domains (LDoms) provides built-in virtualization capabilities for Sun's CoolThreads Servers. Recently released Version 2.1 provides support for:
CPU power management
jumbo frames
configuring domain dependencies
autorecovery of configurations
export of same backend multiple times
physical-to-virtual migration tool and
configuration assistant tools.
Other features and multiple bug fixes also have been implemented. LDoms 1.2 software is supported on the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release, Solaris 10 05/09 and earlier Solaris 10 patched versions.
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