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Articles for the keywords: storage pool
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17 Mar 2010
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"Solaris 10 ZFS Essentials" [22919]
Concise Reference on Setting Up and Administering ZFS
As the title reads, this book is an essentials guide to Solaris 10 ZFS. Numbering only 144 pages, the slim paperback is designed to show its readers how to deploy and manage ZFS file systems. It is particularly useful for those users who are new to Solaris or are using ZFS for the first time. It is easy to get ZFS up and running on a home system or business IT infrastructure by following the simple instructions in this book.
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16 Feb 2010
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How Hybrid Storage Pools Provide Greater Performance and Efficiency for Less [22827]
Key Business Benefits of HSPs
Hybrid storage pools (HSPs) enable users to deploy multiple types of storage media together and manage them as a single pool. An Oracle-Sun white paper provides insight into HSPs and discusses their primary benefits, including increased throughput without a full-scale SSD deployment; simplified and centralized management of hybrid storage environments; increased flexibility and scalability for future performance or capacity issues; and much more.
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12 Feb 2010
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"Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" [22799]
Creating and Preparing Volumes for Use with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
The quick-start guide "Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" by Ulrich Conrad provides an introduction to the steps for creating and preparing volumes on a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2009.Q3) to be published and used by a server running Microsoft Windows for use with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a common "share."
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09 Feb 2010
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Outline for a Proof of Concept for a Simple Storage Service [22781]
Some First Steps for Budding Storage Service Vendors
"Proof of Concept for a Simple Storage Service," an article by Carol Zhang and Case Cao on the Sun Developer Network, briefly introduces the components that make up a storage service, describes in detail how to use Apache web server to set up a proof of concept (PoC) for a simple storage service, and touches on issues affecting storage service in the real world.
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02 Feb 2010
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A Solution to HPC Application Performance Improvement [22783]
Flash Technology Can Speed Things Up
The Sun Storage Solutions white paper "Turbo-charging HPC Application Performance with Flash Storage: Changing the Focus from Processing to Moving Data Faster" contends that, with ever more CPU cores and more GFLOPS per core, HPC application performance will be determined by the ability to move data in and out of fast processors. This paper examines how Flash technology can be deployed and the effect it will have on HPC workloads. It examines various Flash technologies and compares their performance on leading HPC application benchmarks. Finally, the performance characteristics of the Flash-based Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is described.
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