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Testing The Technology that allows ZFS to exploit Flash
A new blog posting by Brendan Gregg, co-author of “Solaris Performance and Tools”, explains an exciting new ZFS feature called L2ARC - the second level ARC.
ARC - Adaptive Replacement Cache - is the algorithm that ZFS uses to keep pages in memory to improve performance. Think of […]

According to a blog posting by Sun,
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors delivered 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack HPC benchmark.
For single servers, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server outperforms the best IBM Power 595 5GHz POWER6 published result by two times on the Linpack HPC benchmark. This system is the […]

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 […]

Release Notes
This release of Sun Clusters add support for  Oracle 11g in HA-Oracle and Oracle RAC configurations on SPARC based platforms.
It also adds support for Logical Domains in a Cluster. The Release note describes  topologies, requirements and restrictions, and installation and configuration procedures for guest domains as cluster nodes:

SPARC: LDom Guest Domains: Cluster in a […]

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
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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
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