The Fat Bloke sings, this week about "Running Storage Simulators in VirtualBox," providing readers with links to two reports:
NetApp 7.3.3 Simulator on Oracle VirtualBox.doc, described as a document that outlines the process for installing Oracle VirtualBox 3.1.10, creating an Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 VM and installing the 7.3.3 OnTap Simulator in the VM
Oracle's Sun Unified Storage Simulator which the Fat Bloke says deals with how to use the Sun Storage 7000 Simulator, now available as an ovf appliance that simply imports and runs.
Use the simulators to get a feel for the storage features of these platforms.
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A new Sun Storage 7000 simulator image has been released, bringing the simulator to 2010.Q3.1.0. The simulator image works with VirtualBox and supports the full complement of unified storage features with the exception of clustering. More information on the simulator can be found at the landing page, where readers will learn how Oracle's Unified Storage Simulator makes it possible to install and manage a virtual storage system on any laptop or desktop and experience the power of Open Storage. Note that existing downrev simulator images can be upgraded using the procedure described in the product documentation (included in the simulator and accessible via the browser-based appliance interface); it's not necessary to download the new image, Oracle notes.
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This blog is for users who create and access LUNs from their Sun Unified Storage appliances using either iSCSI or FC and who might not realize the impact on performance that client side partition alignment can exert. Blogger David Lutz characterizes this issue as generic rather than one that involves only Unified Storage appliances but adds, reassuringly, that achieving proper alignment is relatively simple.
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A new version of the Sun Storage 7000 simulator, now known as Oracle's Sun Unified Storage Simulator, is available with support changes. This release of the simulator provides support for VirtualBox and drops its support for VMware, reports Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal. This freely downloadable simulator is a way for users to install and manage a virtual storage system on any laptop or desktop and experience the Oracle-Sun Open Storage.
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