Download Sun Directory Enterprise Edition 7.0 Improves Authentication, Modification and Over 3x the Performance
Version 7.0 of the Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) improves performance by more than three times when compared to its predecessor, and improves authentication and modification performance by 60 percent, allowing customers to accelerate their applications without changing one line of code, Sun reports. It is now available for download along with supporting documentation.
DSEE is made up of the following components that provide a complete directory service:
Sun Directory Server
Sun Directory Proxy Server
Sun Identity Synchronization for Windows
Sun Directory Server Resource Kit
DSEE 7.0 is an update release to version 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.3.1. It offers customers:
Optimization in internal data and parallelized import for significant performance improvements. Larger deployments can be supported on the same hardware resulting in more efficient configurations, accelerating applications without changing a line of code, effectively reducing the total cost of ownership.
Upgraded In-Place, Console and CLI can manage booth DSEE 6 and DSEE 7 instances. Use installer and upgrade tools to advance software and minimize cost and complexity associated with migration.
Entry Compression does not impact performances. Less disk space usage and more efficient data transfer rate between disk and memory subsystems.
Copyless restoration: Backup can be brought inline instantly, without extra time required to copy files, which speeds up recovery time for large restorations.
Advanced tuning capability means that AllIds and Index monitoring information is now provided. Servers can now be tuned further to accommodate application requirements.
Ipv6 supported on all operating systems, including Windows, for more deployment flexibility.
Directory Server Control Center is now supported on WebLogic and Sun Web Server, increasing the number of deployment options for the console.
Optimized entry aggregation for virtual directory capability in Directory Proxy Server, thereby avoiding unnecessary queries to secondary data view, making searches to secondary data view when appropriate, grouping requests to secondary source and improving handling of large results sets if not necessary result in optimization for virtual directory.
More data types are supported through JDBC for Virtual Directory, specifically BLOB and date formats for more use cases support.
Proxy traffic classification based on LDAP group membership fine tunes in traffic routed by Directory Proxy Server.
Ability to limit number of operations via Directory Proxy Server for improved traffic load management so service handling can be tuned to insure appropriate Service Level Agreement for Directory Service.
Improved support for regular expression based distribution in Directory Proxy Server for more flexibility in distributing data across multiple back-end, resulting in more flexibility in large deployments.
System Requirements
On all platforms, the core directory server component requires:
Disk: 400 MB for binaries, 2 GB of disk space for evaluation purposes and 4 GB for a production system with 250,000 entries with no binary attributes.
Memory: 1-2 GB for evaluation purposes, 4 GB for production systems.
For the Directory Proxy server component:
Memory: 1-2 GB for evaluation purposes, 4 GB for production
Disk Space: 300 MB minimum for binaries + 2GB for server logs for evaluation
Supported Platforms
For core Directory Server, Proxy Server and Directory Server Resource Kit components, the supported architectures are:
SPARC
x86
AMD x64
HP-UX (PA-RISC)
For Identity Synchronization for Windows component:
SPARC
x86
Supported Operating Systems
For core directory server, proxy server and Directory Server Resource Kit components:
Sun Solaris 10 U5 Operating System for SPARC 64-bit and x64
Sun Solaris 9 Operating System for SPARC 64-bit and x86
Sun Solaris 10 U5 with Trusted Extensions for SPARC 64-bit and x64
OpenSolaris 2009.06 Operating System for SPARC 64-bit and x64
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 U3 Operating System for x64
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 U8 Operating System for x64 and x86
Linux SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 U2 Operating System for x64 and x86
Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard and Advanced Server Standard Edition SP 2 for x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows 2008 Standard and Advanced Server Standard Edition SP 1 for x86 and x64
HP-UX 11iV2 (11.23) on PA-RISC
For Identity Synchronization for Windows:
Solaris 10
Solaris 9
Linux Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0
Linux Red Hat Advanced Server 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard and Enterprise Edition Synchronization with AD 2008 is supported but core Identity Synchronization has to run either on Windows 2003
- Licensing -
The DSEE is licensed on a per-entry basis. An entry is defined as a single unique Distinguished Name ("DN") and its contained attributes.
Upgrading
Customers using iPlanet Directory Server 5.1, DSEE 5.2(formerly Sun ONE Directory Server 5.2) or DSEE 6.x can upgrade to version 7.0 for free if they purchased an original product and have a valid maintenance contract.
Customers who purchased the product but do not have maintenance contract can benefit from an upgrade price, Sun reports. Contact Sun or a Sun reseller for specifics.
Sun also provides a subscription pricing model for DSEE.
Localization
DSEE 7.0's major components are localized for: Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Korean.
Installing DSEE 7.0 on Windows 2008
Mark Craig has written a blog entry specifically on installing DSEE 7.0 on Windows Server 2008, showing screen shots taken while installing Directory Service Control Center with Directory Server and Directory Proxy Server on a Windows system.
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