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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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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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VMware ESX on the SunFire x4150 and Unified Storage 7000 Series

Ron Graham has written a 10-page PDF for system administrators outlining the basic steps of setting up VMware Infrastructure 3 functionality on the Sun Fire X4150 and implementing shared storage with the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System. The quick start guide covers installing VirtualCenter Server and VI Client, ESX Server installation, starting the VI Client and shared storage implementation.

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Using Oracle as Database Platform and Volumes on a 7210 Mounted via NFS

The BigAdmin paper “Running SAP ERP 6.0 With Oracle Database on the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System” by Ulrich Conrad describes the steps to implement an SAP ERP 6.0 application on Solaris 10 for x64 platforms with Oracle as the database platform and volumes on this Sun OpenStorage system that are mounted via NFS.

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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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Installation and Scanning Process using Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS)

Sun makes it easier to install virus-scanning software with a free downloadable paper. Download the free Sun article and learn how to install Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS) software. This software is to be used with the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System, in conjunction with the VSCAN service.

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Enterprise-class SATA Drives Offered As Options

The Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System provides a unified storage solution with up to 46 TB of capacity in an energy-efficient 4U package, and up to 142 TB with support for two J4500 expansion arrays. Two new configurations have been added for customer choice: one offers 48×500GB 7200 rpm enterprise-class SATA drives and the other provides 48×1TB 7200 rpm enterprise-class SATA drives. These options are ideal for customer workloads that do not benefit from having write-optimized SSDs and want to maximize capacity at a lower price point.

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As of May 7th, 2009

Virus Scanning on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite This paper describes the installation of the Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS) for use as a virus scan engine for a Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System, in conjunction with the VSCAN service. Content on storage volumes can be protected against malware threats using the VSCAN service if the content is published using the CIFS or NFS Version 4 protocol.

Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System can be used to share NFS and iSCSI file systems with Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL database servers deployed on Sun SPARC and x86 servers running the Solaris 10 OS. (Pentaho BI suite is an open source BI product that provides reporting, data analysis, dashboards, data mining capabilities, and data integration.)

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