SNMP Service on Sun Storage 7000 Appliance

Learn how to enable SNMP support in the Sun Storage 7000 Appliance and what "out of the box" features are available once it's enabled. Paul Monday demonstrates some basic MIB walking and traps that you'll receive once SNMP is enabled.

Monitoring the Sun Storage 7000 Appliance

In another blog by Monday, he discusses the variety of monitoring mechanisms in the Sun Storage 7000 Appliance and advises using the built-in Sun Storage 7000 Appliance Help Wiki to get up to speed on monitoring tool topics. He shares a few tips, provides some links, and promises to revisit the topic and share more extensively.

Logzillas: to mirror or stripe?

Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal contemplates the tough decision on whether to stripe or mirror Logzillas. The most important factors to consider when deciding between mirrored or striped Logzillas are the consequences of potential data loss, he writes.

Direct NFS Access to Sun Storage 7410 with Oracle 11g and Solaris

Glenn Fawcett shares how he configured and verified dNFS on Solaris.

NFS Analytics Example

Brendan Gregg, Fishworks engineer, demonstrates using Analytics along with dtrace, truss, snoop, kstats, and other performance tools he regularly uses on Solaris to track down a performance issue. This is a real-world example and shows the speed with which this job can be done.

Fishworks Engineers Presentations

Tune in to Leventhal's presentation on ZFS, Cache, and Flash presented at the Open Storage Summit 2009.

Also, check out Gregg's talk entitled, "Little Shop of Performance Horrors" given at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG) on Oct 29, 2009.

Sun Storage 7000 2009.Q3.3.0 Release

In case you missed it, a new minor update to the 2009.Q3 software is available for download. This release contains numerous fixes, such as resolving data corruption when copying files on CIFS shares, the destruction of an existing share with a new one being created under the same name, data corruption on shadow migration shares, BUI/CLI non-responsiveness, iSCSI portal groups, NDMP restore failures, and more. Learn all about it in the Release Notes [...read more...]

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