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Articles for the keywords: Oracle Solaris
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06 Feb 2013
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How to Configure a Failover Guest Domain in an Oracle Solaris Cluster [29690]
Oracle VM Server Provides Protection to Guest Domains Against Outages, Planned and Unplanned
Venkat Chennuru posts at length in an article that provides a step-by-step example of how to deploy an Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domain in a highly available failover setup with a two-node Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1 with a global file system on Oracle Solaris 11.1. The post also explains how to verify that the cluster is behaving correctly by switching over the failover guest domain from the primary node to the secondary node and back. Chennuru writes that the automated failover of a guest domain through restart on an alternate cluster node enables the protection of guest domains from planned and unplanned downtime.
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05 Feb 2013
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Mazda Consolidates IT Infrastructure for Automobile Design and Development SPARC T4 Servers [29678]
Realizes Multiple Economies, Efficiencies
Mazda Motor Corporation has consolidated its Mazda Digital Innovation (MDI) system on Oracles SPARC T4-4 and T4-2 servers running Oracle Solaris 10. This deployment has enabled Mazda to achieve the following improvements in its IT profile:
- 50 percent faster PDM tool response time at peak hours, even with as many as 3,500 users initiating 1 million transactions during peak hours at the beginning and end of each day
- 40 percent reduction in monthly operational costs
- 75 percent lower monthly server power consumption
- 90 percent reduction in its data center footprint. Mazda reduced its MDI system from 12 racks to one
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30 Jan 2013
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Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Enables SaaS Provider Avero to Accelerate Application and Data Warehouse Performance [29582]
Delivers an Immediate 40 Percent Improvement in ETL and Application Performance
With the implementation of Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Avero LLC, a leading provider of SaaS analytic applications and specialized services to the hospitality industry, gained an immediate 40 percent improvement in its ETL and application performance. Avero's infrastructure also includes Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server and Sun servers running Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux. The Pillar Axiom 600 Storage Systems QoS capability, company officials report, allows Avero to run both its production and pre-production staging environments on a single array without performance impacts by prioritizing I/O for its production applications.
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30 Jan 2013
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Oracles SPARC T4 Servers Exhibit 4X Adoption Rate Year-Over-Year [29581]
Now Power Mission-critical Workloads in Over 3,000 Enterprises Worldwide
The Oracle SPARC T4 server featuring Oracle Solaris now powers mission-critical workloads in over 3,000 enterprises worldwide, nearly 4x the number announced one year ago in industries ranging from Financial Services and Telecommunications, to Public Sector and Retail, delivering double-digit revenue growth in Q2FY13. Unlike competitive servers, SPARC T4 servers come with Oracle Solaris, virtualization and system management featuring Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c, enabling customers to simplify cloud deployments, and automate and optimize their data centers at no additional cost. Oracle Solaris 11.1 on SPARC T4 gives customers the best platform to deploy Oracle software.
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26 Jan 2013
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How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones [29495]
OTN Article by Orgad Kimchi
This "article"]
starts with a brief overview of Hadoop and follows with an example of setting up a Hadoop cluster with a NameNode, a secondary
NameNode, and three DataNodes using Oracle Solaris Zones.
The following are benefits of using Oracle Solaris Zones for a Hadoop cluster:
- Fast provision of new cluster members using the zone cloning feature
- Very high network throughput between the zones for data node replication
- Optimized disk I/O utilization for better I/O performance with ZFS built-in compression
- Secure data at rest using ZFS encryption
Orgad Kimchi is the article author.
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