System News for Sun Users - The Blog

Sun is announcing new quad-core SPARC64 VII for its Enterprise servers — M4000, M5000, M8000 M4000 and M9000 - today. These CPUs extend the server family from 16 cores  to 256 cores with 32 to 512 DIMM slots:

M4000 - 4 CPUs, 16 cores, 32 DIMMS
M5000 - 8 CPUs, 32 cores, 64 DIMMS
M8000 - 16 […]

20253: Automatic Data Migration (ADM) with ZFS

OpenSolaris HSM for Solaris file systems, including ZFS
ADM, Automatic Data Migration, is an OpenSolaris HSM (hierarchical Storage Management) system for Solaris file systems. With ADM, files can be moved to archive storage (disk […]

Sun has made a Podcast available that talks about Sun Identity Manager 8.0:
Introducing Identity Manager 8.0 — 6/23/08
Brandon, Squire Earle, Craig McDonald and Mat Hamlin discuss the features and benefits of the new Identity Manager 8.0. Plus you’ll hear about roles and their evolution in identity management.

In a July 2008 article by Dominic Kay, “Configuring J4000 and ZFS in Ten Minutes”, you can see how powerful the combination of low cost JBODs and ZFS can be.
Dominic shows how easy it is have ZFS handle the manage two arrays each contain 12 x 136.72 GB disks - approximately 3.2 TB - in these […]

A BigAdmin System Administration Portal is now available for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers.
Features on the portal include:

an overview of CoolThreads technology (with 360-degree tour)
link to the T5140 detailed product page
link to the T5240 detailed product page
discussion of Management Facilities
[…]

A Sun blogger announced that Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 Beta is coming soon…
Some notes from the beta FAQ:
Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 includes

Sun Ray Server Software (SRSS) […]

The latest version of the XCP firmware , XCP 1071 contains fixes for the following Change Requests:

6685379 XSCF changed from XCP1050 so that console logs out from Solaris
6661840 Description of setdscp/showdscp is unclear
6667626 adduser man page should change the maximum user name length to 31 characters
6654373 Man page should designate when sendbreak won’t work
6668614 Undocumented […]

Jeff Cheeney, Storage facilitator, recently posted a ” Storage Community Annual Report“  in which he included these quick facts:

Projects

  36 approved & live
  5 approved, not live - waiting for web pages to be created
  […]

The proceeding from the 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Conference, June 25-27th, 2008, Prague are now available in a 122 page PDF document.
The slides + videos (as they are being converted and uploaded) are at:
http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/program.html

Title
Author
Page

Governing OpenSolaris: Get Involved!
Grisanzio Jim
3

“The Package Man Always Builds Twice”
From SysV Packaging To The Image Packaging System
Brandt Volker A.
5

OpenSolaris Testing
Walker Jim
9

The Cryptographic Framework […]

The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a “storage for the Internet”.  A web services interface can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. The S3 feature set includes:

Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. […]