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Technical Lead Bryan Cantrill Parts the Curtain a Bit on this Release

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Fishworks Engineer Bryan Cantrill reflects on the release of the new major Sun Storage 7000 series software update, known as 2010.Q1. Producing this release was no mean feat, Cantrill writes, given that it involved building enterprise-grade storage on commodity components, incorporating entirely new elements like Flash, and creating an ambitious management stack entirely from scratch.

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A Primer by Joerg Moellenkamp

Seeking to address some misconceptions on the subject of deduplication, Joerg Moellenkamp’s blog “To dedup or not to dedup - that results in a lot of questions” provides a primer on the process. There are two major ways to deduplicate, he writes: synchronous and asynchronous. The synchronous variant does the deduplication while writing to the disks, so duplicates aren’t written to disk; the asynchronous variant writes every block to the disk and later on it deletes duplicated blocks by searching possible candidates.

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Short Items of Interest for Solaris Users

• How to Back Port Solaris 10
• iSCSI failover with COMSTAR
• Oracle DB 11gR2 Certified on Solaris
• Steps for Installing Any Native or Branded Zones
• Solaris Boot Process
• Threads and Interrupts
• Solaris 10 5/09 OS Receives Security Certification
• Solaris Volume Manager Command Overview
• patchanalysis_gather script
• Make the Most of an SSD with ZFS
• ZFS Deduplication Notebook Backup

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An Opinion is Offered on Expected Growth Areas

In 2009, multitudes of IT departments had to reassess their datacenters, and many are making enlightening discoveries, like air cooling can be sufficient in keeping systems in optimum condition or 15-30 percent of what is consuming power in their datacenters can be turned off with no harmful effect. So what does this type of complete and thorough datacenter inventorying translate to for the IT industry in 2010? ServerWatch’s Andy Patrizio offers his opinion.

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