Step-by-step instructions have been published for using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2008.Q4) as a repository for the PostgreSQL database for the ADempiere open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. Penned by Praneet Tiwani, the technical article provides all the configuration details as well as installation of ADempiere and test procedures.
Creating and Preparing Volumes for Use with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
The quick-start guide “Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007″ by Ulrich Conrad provides an introduction to the steps for creating and preparing volumes on a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2009.Q3) to be published and used by a server running Microsoft Windows for use with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a common “share.”
Gains Accelerated Performance, Better CPU Utilization, Lower Operating Costs
Mind Candy made its Moshi Monsters upgrade happen with Sun Technology: Sun Startup Essentials, Sun Fire X4170 and X4270 servers, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and Java SE6. Mind Candy achieved the upgrade with CPU utilization rates cut from 70 to 15 percent; Tomcat Web application server speed doubled; and the implementation of a cost-effective, eco-responsible infrastructure.
The Sun Storage Solutions white paper “Turbo-charging HPC Application Performance with Flash Storage: Changing the Focus from Processing to Moving Data Faster” contends that, with ever more CPU cores and more GFLOPS per core, HPC application performance will be determined by the ability to move data in and out of fast processors. This paper examines how Flash technology can be deployed and the effect it will have on HPC workloads. It examines various Flash technologies and compares their performance on leading HPC application benchmarks. Finally, the performance characteristics of the Flash-based Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is described.
Praneet Tiwari sets out to prove the feasibility of using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL database with the SugarCRM application. This technical BigAdmin feature article uses Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System release 2008.Q4 and a Sun Fire X4540 server configured with Ubuntu 8.1.0, MySQL 5.1.30 Community Server Edition, and SugarCRM Community Edition.
Implementation Guide for Higher Education Institutions
The Sun BigAdmin paper “Deploying Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions [9.0] on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System” explains that the solution can be successfully deployed with Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, provided the underlying application server, web server, and relational database management system (RDBMS) platforms are installed and configured correctly. Author Abhishek Gupta outlines the details of the process required to implement this deployment.
Quick Start Guide Provides Procedures and Configuration Details
A quick start guide shows how to deploy the Oracle Database using the NFS protocol with the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System release 2009.Q3. Authored by Sridhar Ranganathan and Jeffrey Wright, this 25-page BigAdmin feature provides the procedures and configuration details on this deployment scenario along with figures and screenshots to ease understanding.
The Sun BigAdmin paper “Joomla! Deployment Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems” by Sun ISV Engineering staffer Eric Reid was written to provide guidance for readers looking to install and configure the open source Joomla! content management system with the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product family.
Assessing Read/Write Performance as a Function of Workload
Infiniband IPoIB datalink partition and IP interface configuration is easy and painless using the same network BUI page or CLI contexts as ethernet, says Fishworks blogger Cindi in her update on “Infiniband for Q3.2009.” Port GUID information is available for configured partitions on the network page, she continues, which makes it easy to add Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System HCA ports to a partition table on a subnet manager.
Methods for Performing Array-based Backup and Recovery
The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System comes with snapshot, clone, rollback, and replication features. Learn how to use these components of Sun’s open storage system in array-based backup and recovery operations for VMware ESX Server and VMware vSphere virtual machine environments in a BigAdmin feature article by Ryan Arneson.
