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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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The Latest Changes in System Software

Takeover and failback are the two operations users most commonly associate with clusters. A recent Sun blog addresses how these operations in their latest iterations work on the Sun Storage 7310 and 7410 NAS appliances.

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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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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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Features & Benefits

The latest member of the Storage 7000 family of products is the Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System that delivers enterprise-class data services, file and block level support, scale, performance, and a set of new storage innovations. Find out more about its key specifications and features which Sun refers to as innovative and market differentiators.

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Entry-level Cluster for High Availability

The Sun Storage 7310 is the newest addition to Sun’s Unified Storage Family. This comprehensive, Flash-powered storage system leverages Hybrid Storage Pool capabilities for simplicity and analytic insight. It is available starting at $40,140 (US list). Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal describes the Sun Storage 7310 as “a scalable system from 12TB with a single half-populated J4400 JBOD up to 96TB with 4 JBODs. … The base configuration includes a single quad-core CPU, 16GB of DRAM, a SAS HBA, and two available PCIe slots for NICs, backup cards, or the Fishworks cluster card.”

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