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To be a Major Software Update for Sun Storage 7000 Series Appliances

Is the 2010.02 release of the Sun Unified Storage System imminent, asks Joerg Moellenkamp after stumbling upon the wikis.sun.com page that offers release notes for the 2010.Q1.0.0 expected major software update for the Sun Storage 7000 series appliances. Although it was not yet downloadable for the public at the time of this writing, the software update promises to support the Sun Storage 7110, 7210, 7310, 7410, and 7000 Simulator.

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Now Support Six-core AMD Opteron Processors

Sun Storage 7310 and 7110 now come with new configurations containing six-core AMD Opteron processors as part of the assemble to order (ATO) model. With ATO, customers will get a system fully assembled and tested with the additional components ordered. Existing configurations using four-core AMD processors now have a last order date of January 29, 2010, and last ship date of April 30, 2010.

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White Paper on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

The Sun white paper “Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: Architected for Open, Simple, and Scalable Enterprise Storage” details the key architectural aspects of Sun’s Open Storage family of products. The paper covers ZFS technology and its relation to Hybrid Storage Pools, Enterprise Solid State Storage Devices, and DTrace Analytics. It also highlights some of the main features of the Sun Storage 7110, 7210, 7310, and 7410 Unified Storage Systems. Readers will be introduced to the Sun Storage 7000 Storage Software, which is a full complement of storage software and is included with the system at no additional cost.

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Getting Surprising and Gratifying Results

Curious about how MySQL would perform on the Sun Storage 7110 and 7210, David Lutz found that MySQL performance on the Sun Storage 7000 line is excellent, even on the entry level Sun Storage 7110, adding that, for MySQL on Linux over NFS, performance is great, right out of the box. Lutz also has praise for the capacious addressable memory, most of which is used as cache, available on the Sun Storage 7000 product line.

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Throughput and IOPS Results for the 7410, 7310, 7210 and 7110 Storage Systems

The entire Sun Storage 7000 line are throughput workhorses, writes Roch Juin, with them delivering 10 Gbps level NAS services per cluster head nodes, using a single Network Interface and single IP address. In his blog, Juin shares recent performance tests of the array product line - Sun Storage 7410, 7310, 7210 and 7110. Performance results posted on his blog represent what is achieved under a very tightly defined constrained workload; however, he notes, it does not represent the performance limits of the systems themselves.

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Collaboration with Symantec Delivers Green, Smaller-footprint Storage

Recently Sun expanded its portfolio of mid-market solutions with the introduction of an Open Archive solution that pairs the Sun Storage 7110 and 7210 Unified Storage Systems and Sun Fire X4140 and Sun Fire X4240 servers with Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 software. This solution makes it easy for customers to archive different data types, such as files/records, email, instant messaging and sharepoint content while ensuring data integrity.

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Download Complete Binary Image for the 7110, 7210, and 7410 Unified Storage Systems

The first major software update for the Sun Storage 7000 series (2009.Q2.0.0) has been released with new features, technology improvements, bug fixes and added support of virtual machines that should interest users of the Sun Storage 7000 simulator, which also has a new update.

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Reviewer Calls Performance ‘Brilliant’

In an exhaustive review, ILM Informatique put the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System through its paces during a 60-day try-and-buy period and came up with a verdict that should be pleasing to Sun’s marketing staff: “The Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System makes it easier than ever to simplify your storage for less. The easy-to-use appliance is ideal for enterprise workgroups, remote offices or SMBs, and offers enterprise storage at entry-level prices.”

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