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Sun Storage 7000 Series Identity Mapping – Seamlessly Sharing Files Between Windows and Unix Platforms The need to integrate Windows platforms and UNIX platforms is definitely not a new challenge for IT professionals. More and more it is desired for Windows and UNIX platforms to share data in the same files on centralized storage systems. There are many solutions available to make this possible from simple volume level solutions to complex single sign-on solutions. All of these solutions are aimed to address the fact that Windows and UNIX platforms use different security structures for their user and group authentication to control access to files and directories. With OpenSolaris we (Sun) took a very intuitive approach to address this challenge by building the CIFS stack directly into the OpenSolaris kernel. With the CIFS stack built into the kernel, the new features of NFSv4, the new features ZFS and many other OS enhancements the door was wide open to deliver a seamless, ubiquitous, cross-protocol file sharing system.
Sun's Open Network System Design Approach to Virtualization This blog is about how to build a medium to large virtualization system with all the great new technology that we have today. The discussion points will take you from why virtualization, to defining some of the components that I would use, and then putting them all together.
Running Sysbench Benchmark on MySQL using Solid State Drives and ext3 on Linux As a follow up to the previous Sysbench benchmark that ran on Solaris UFS,we re-ran the benchmark on Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 5.2 using ext3 filesystem on the same setup and configuration with an additional change to the my.cnf configuration file.
Running Sysbench Benchmark on MySQL using Solid State Drives and ZFS As a follow up to the previous Sysbench benchmark that ran on Solaris UFS (HTTP link pointer), we re-ran the benchmark using ZFS filesystem on the same setup and configuration. Solaris ZFS does not allow the forcedirectio option as with UFS. We followed the “ZFS Best Practices Guide” recommendations. Namely, we limited the size of the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) to 1GB, and we set the ZFS recordsize to 16K as it matches the Innodb page size. We used the same MySQL configuration file “my.cnf” that was used in the previous UFS test.
Doing More with Less: Web 2.0 Consolidation the Sun Way Web2.0 data centers are typically filled with racks of x64 servers: single apps per box--an architectural convenience, but a decision that leads to inefficiencies of utilization, power, and space. Sun has been working this challenge with a unique and effective approach for several years: chip multithreading, or CMT. First introduced with our UltraSPARC CMT-based systems over three years ago, we have consistently demonstrated that architectures with multiple cores, each supporting multiple threads at the hardware level, can introduce significant efficiencies for some application environments. Web 2.0 turns out to be one such example.

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