Logical Domains (LDoms) provides built-in virtualization capabilities for Sun Chip Multithreading (CMT) Servers at no cost. The latest free release of LDoms is version 1.3, which now features CPU dynamic resource management (DRM), domain mobility performances improvement, crypto unit dynamic reconfiguration and migration support, link-based IPMP for virtual network, large virtual disk (>1TB) boot support, and more.
The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card is a Flash PCIe card with an integrated disk controller that increases server storage I/O and application performance. Targeted at I/O intensive applications, such as databases with 4K block aligned workloads, the Sun Flash Accelerator delivers I/O performance equaling that of up to 300 disk drives, Sun reports.
Using Oracle Databases With NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
This quick start guide shows how to deploy Oracle Database using the NFS protocol with Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (release 2009.Q3). Here are configuration tips for the Solaris 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Oracle Enterprise Linux operating systems.
Updated: Firmware Flash Utility for SAS Expanders
This unbundled product requires Solaris 10 10/08 OS or later (using SPARC and x64 platforms). The utility allows you to upgrade the SAS expander firmware on Sun Fire T5140/T5240 servers, Sun Storage arrays, and some storage blades.
An enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running Solaris and Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems is described in a Sun BluePrints article. The architecture brings fault tolerance, security, resiliency and performance to enterprise deployments, and can be used to consolidate multiple tiers onto a single system through the use of key virtualization technologies.
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