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Tape Library on Logical Domains on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

See what is required to run Logical Domains (LDoms) on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 and use tape device. On the blog "Women and Technology," the writer explains that in order to use tape device like robot and drives, IO domain with split-pcie bus is required, of which the T5240 has 2 pcie bus. Configuration of LDoms on the T5240 is presented and a short configuration for ldom. "Tape device runs well on io domain as we expected," she concludes.

Sun Fire X2270 Cluster Fluent Benchmark Results

A Sun Fire X2270 cluster equipped with 2.93 GHz QC Intel X5570 processors and DDR Infiniband interconnects delivered outstanding performance running the FLUENT benchmark test suite. Visit the BestPerf blog for specifics.

Sun SSD Server Platform Bandwidth and IOPS (Speeds & Feeds)

Another BestPerf blog entry reports on the Sun SSD server platform's IOPS on Sun Fire X4450, X4140/X4440 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 servers running Solaris 10. The Sun SSD (32 GB SATA 2.5" SSD) is the first enterprise-quality, open-standard Flash design. Built to an industry-standard JEDEC form factor, the module is being made available to developers and the OpenSolaris Storage community to foster Flash innovation. The testers also show IOPS results on Microsoft Windows 2003 on Sun Fire X4140 and X4440. Measurements were taken on various IO performance metrics using Vdbench 5.0.

The Future for SSD, Flash Technology

Take a look at how some experts believe Flash technology will affect the server industry in a 6 1/2 minute video, which features Sun Flash Technologist Michael Cornwell, ZFS Inventor Jeff Conwick and Sun Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.

Comparison of Sun Volume Servers Product Line

Trying to make a decision on what server would be best? Sun Startup Essentials member Stewart Townsend has posted a product line card of Sun servers for a comparison between Sun's servers themselves as well as ones from Dell, HP, IBM. Go to Scribd and download for the best view.

Sun x86 SNMP Hardware Monitoring Agent

The Sun x86 SNMP Hardware Monitoring Agent found in the Sun Server Hardware Management Pack 1.0 is just what its name implies, a host-based (i.e. in-band) SNMP hardware monitoring agent for Sun x86 servers. This new agent provides in-band monitoring to complement the existing out-of-band monitoring provided by ILOM itself. Learn more about the architecture, support and its key features

SNMP Interface,
support for AgentX,
C API Interface,
Trap Interface,
identical sensor names as the SP,
logical grouping of information in MIB by device type,
aggregated status information, and
LED state

in Tony Kay's blog System Management.

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA) 2.2.16.0

Used to assist in the installation of multiple operating systems like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 on Sun Fire X4150/X4250/X4450, this latest free release is available from the Sun Download Center.

300GB SAS Disk Drive Options on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 Servers

The 300GB SAS disk drive is now offered as a factory configurable ATO option or x-option on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers. The 146GB disk drive is still available for these servers as well.

Memcached on Sun X2270

Senior Staff Engineer in the Performance & Applications Engineering Group (PAE) Shanti posted results of memcached on Sun's X2270. The test was run with two instances of memcached on the same server, each using 15GB of memory and both 1.2.5 and 1.3.2 versions tested. See her blog for results. [...read more...]

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