In his how-to piece on managing the ZFS Storage Appliance with JavaScript Peter Brouwer covers three approaches: grouping CLI commands in a file to perform batch processing; executing user-defined scripts; and using workflows. Brouwer writes that his article primarily provides details on how to use JavaScript programming features within the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, as well as providing detail on the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance script architecture, the JavaScript interface into the appliance, and methods for executing scripts. The piece is not, he cautions readers, a tutorial for the JavaScript language nor the appliance's CLI command language.
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Storage magazine has awarded top honors to Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solutions for both enterprise and midrange NAS. EMC and NetApp received lesser marks for their storage technologies. Oracle outperformed its rivals in terms of initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence. More than 3.000 customers have discovered that Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
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"Simplified administration with ZFS," a post by Isaac Rozenfeld, covers migrating the OS image from an HP Pavillion desktop a1150y to a Sun Ultra 40. With the hardware properly configured, the four-year-old Phoenix BIOS easily detected the ZFS submirror, and the GRUB menu came up quite nicely, showing all of the Boot Environments created over the lifespan of the OS installation when it was on the HP desktop. With the ZFS dataset submirror running, the next step was to add the second disk from the HP machine so that the pool could operate in a non-degraded state.
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The post by Frederic P "ZFS secures your application" describes a cost-saving alternative to using an internal RAID storage controller in an entry-level server. That solution uses the Oracle Solaris 10 OS and its ZFS file system to mirror the root hard drive. The benefits realized include higher uptime, simpler management, faster deployment, better data integrity and lower hardware cost. It was possible to deploy an application on a Sun Fire X2270 class system vs a X4170 class one -- a 20% difference in base prices -- and to reduce unplanned downtime and maintenance time from hours to minutes.
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ZFSSA software release 2011.1.1.0 is available, Steve Tunstall blogs. Users will need 2010.3.2.1 or greater to upgrade to 2011.1.1. This major software update contains numerous bug fixes and important firmware upgrades, Tunstall reports, then lists the various new features in the release, among which are:
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