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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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New HPC Solutions, Benchmarks, Customers and Positioning on Top500 List

The latest Top500 list published in November shows three of the top five supercomputers based on Intel Nehalem CPUs were Sun Constellation Systems. Sun also doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). Additionally, Sun announced new products and technologies for high performance computing (HPC), an upgrade to the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, new HPC benchmarks and new HPC customers.

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Integrated Way to Migrate Data from Existing Systems to New Systems

Fishworks team member Eric Schrock defines shadow migration - one of the major new features in the Sun Storage 7000 2009.Q3 software release. Schrock explains this project’s conception, development, and birth in a blog entry that outlines the feature’s choice of migrating via interposition versus synchronization, and provides an overview of how shadow migration works.

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How to Install and Invoke Web Services from the Storage Appliance

The quick start guide “Deploying Apache HTTP Web Server on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems” by Hasham Pathan explains not only how to install the Apache HTTP Web Server but also how to invoke Web services from the storage appliance. The document includes scenarios designed to aid consolidation efforts and simplify management.

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Focus on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems with NFS and VMware Software

Discover what Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and VMware vSphere 4.0 can do to ease Windows server consolidation efforts in a June 2009 white paper that specifically addresses how to fulfill storage requirements typical in virtualization initiatives. The writers cover “storage in server virtualization” to refer to storage used to support applications and operating systems that are virtualized and encapsulated in a virtual machine (the virtualized application stack) and related data (VMDK disks).

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Short Items of Interest to the OpenStorage Community

• Software Update for Sun Storage 7000 Series
• The Latest on COMSTAR
• CIFS Performance on Sun Storage 7410
• Sun’s Open Storage Appeal to Customers/Startups
• What are the Key Drivers to Open Storage?
• Integrated Fault Management
• DIY OpenStorage Device and Configuration

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Slides and Video Stream Replays Available Online

The second OpenSolaris Storage Summit, held on February 23, 2009 in San Francisco, hosted a number of interesting presentations. One of the key designers of the Sun Storage 7000 Series, Mike Shapiro, kicked off the event with his talk “Sun Open Storage 2009-2010″ that included a road map for the next year or so on Sun’s Open Storage solutions. The talk’s slides are available online along with other Summit presentations such as Adam Leventhal’s “ZFS, Cache, and Flash”; Ben Rockwood’s “ZFS in the Trenches”; Mike La Spina’s “Storage Re-provisioning with COMSTAR”; and many more.

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