This page is intended to be a one stop shop for links to blogs and articles about the Sun 7000 Series and the Fishworks. It is organized roughly into the following categories:
Current Fishworks Blog Feed
All Sun Blogs tagged with fishworks
Reviews and Testimonials
IT Pro gives the 7410 a rating of 5 stars out of 6, and labels is as the Editor's Choice... very nice.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/610529/sun-storage-7410-unified-storage-system-review
Infoworld reviews the Sun Storage 7210, and rates is 9.2 out of 10 (sorry for ruining the suspense)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/19/07TC-sun-storage_2.html
PC Pro shares a very positive review of the Sun Storage 7110
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/245627/sun-storage-7110-unified-storage-system.html
iWeb blog post on why they chose the 7410 and the value to their customers
http://blog.iweb.com/en/2008/12/iweb-acquires-the-sun-storage-7410-for-its-storage-area-network/1557.html
Rick Yazwinski of Tucows and OpenSRS shares his experiences testing the Sun Storage 7410 and how it compares with their NetApp 3040
http://opensrs.com/blog/2008/12/testing-suns-open-storage-platform/
ILM Informatique reviews the 7110
http://www.ilm-informatique.fr/review/fishworks_sun_com/
7000 Series Architecture
Dave Pacheco talks about how the 7000 Series not only detects faults, but how it adapts to keep your data moving.
http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/fault_management
Dave is at it again, this time showing us the power and value of Compression in the 7000 Series...
http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/zfs_compression
http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/compression_followup
Ryan Matthews answers common questions on SSD integration into the 7000 Series
http://blogs.sun.com/rdm/entry/q_a_on_hybrid_storage
Eric Schrock discusses storage configuration
http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/fishworks_storage_configuration
Keith Weslowski describes the clustering technology in the 7000 Series
http://blogs.sun.com/wesolows/entry/low_availability_clusters
Bill Pijewski shares how we interoperate with Windows
http://blogs.sun.com/wdp/entry/windows_interoperability
Adam Leventhal explains what we mean by Hybrid Storage Pool
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/fishworks_launch
More detail from Adam Leventhal on why we chose to implement Hybrid Storage versus the alternatives and how the industry is moving
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/shadow_of_hsp
An explanation of how we use Write Optimized SSD for the Intent Log, and what happens if it fails
http://blogs.sun.com/rdm/entry/zil_ssd_and_other_fun
Brendan Gregg explains L2ARC in detail...
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test
Cindi McGuire shares information on what Fishworks and the Appliance Kit are
http://blogs.sun.com/cindi/entry/fishworks_draft
Dave Pacheco describes how we added User support for HTTP file access
http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/user_support_for_http
Eric Schrock discusses the Fault Management Architecture and how it ties into Fishworks
http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/zfs_fma_hotplug_and_fishworks
Greg Price talks about JBOD architecture and how Fishworks talks to disks
http://blogs.sun.com/greg/entry/welcome_to_fishworks
Mike Shapiro's white paper on how we maximize RAS using the Sun Storage 7000
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/An+Economic+Approach+to+Maximizing+Data+Availability
7000 Series Performance
Low Level Performance
Brendan shares his performance limits on the 7410. I hate to give things away, but it can achieve over 281,000 IOPS and over 2GB/s !
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/my_sun_storage_7410_perf
Brendan is at it again, this time sharing his performance limits for the 7310
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/my_sun_storage_7310_perf
Brendan shows exactly how the 7000 Series takes advantage of the Log device to reduce latency by 20x!
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/slog_screenshots
Brendan uses Analytics to show that the L2ARC (the second layer cache in the 7000 Series) really turbocharges read performance
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/l2arc_screenshots
Brendan Gregg's three part series with tips for performance testing the 7000 Series
- http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/performance_testing_the_7000_series1
- http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/performance_testing_the_7000_series2
- http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/performance_testing_the_7000_series3
Roch Bourbonnais explains what a 'Performance Invariant' is, and what the invariants are on the 7410
http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/sun_storage_7xxx_performance_invariants
RAID Rebuild Performance Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage Array
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/raid_rebuild_performance_sun_storage
Low Level Performance Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array
(Note: Updated since original posting!)
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/low_level_performance_sun_storage
http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/designing_performance_metrics_for_sun
http://blogs.sun.com/hotnets/entry/analyzing_the_sun_storage_7000
Application Performance
Wowza Media Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage Array
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/wowza_media_sun_storage_7210
http://blogs.sun.com/cdnperf/entry/a_video_streaming_solution_using
ANSYS using Sun Storage 7410 with the Sun Blade X6250
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/ansys_using_sun_storage_7410
Web 2.0 Consolidation Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/web_2_0_consolidation_sun
http://blogs.sun.com/mheckel/entry/sun_storage_7410_unified_storage
Database Performance and Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/database_performance_and_sun_storage
Analytics
Brendan Gregg shares his vision of art nouveau...
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/latency_art_x_marks_the
Brendan Gregg explains 'Heat Map' Analytics and shares some interesting uses for the powerful technology...
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/heat_map_analytics
Brendan Gregg shares the bizarre 'Rainbow Pterodactyl' Analytics worksheet and what it actually means
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/latency_art_rainbow_pterodactyl
Brendan Gregg shares how Analytics helped him realize that shouting is a bad thing...
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency
Brendan Gregg shares his experience using Analytics to troubleshoot a JBOD performance problem that turned out to be human error
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/jbod_analytics_example
Brendan recounts how Analytics was able to assist in diagnosing a network configuration problem on a 7410 in his lab.
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/networking_analytics_example
After posting a bunch of L2ARC analytics, Brendan shares some additional detail about how Analytics can show the latency of DRAM
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/dram_latency
Brendan continues to blog up a storm, this time sharing some of his more interesting analytics screenshots...
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/latency_art_rainbow_pterodactyl
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/heat_map_analytics
Peter Galvin (of OS textbook "Silberschatz and Galvin" fame) has an in-depth article on Analytics in this month's ;login: (the USENIX magazine)
http://www.galvin.info/2009-02my-latest-column-at-login or pdf http://www.galvin.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2009-02-galvin.pdf
Dave Pacheco shares how we created an Apache module in order to deliver Analytics for HTTP and WebDAV
http://blogs.sun.com/dap/entry/http_webdav_analytics
General Interest
Adam Leventhal discusses the merits of mirroring Solid State Disks
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/mirroring_flash_ssds
Adam Leventhal shares the story behind the creation of the Sun Storage VM
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/fishworks_vm
Bryan Cantrill delivers a 'Eulogy' for SPEC SFS, a benchmark that has outlived its usefulness
http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/eulogy_for_a_benchmark
NetApp responded to Bryan's Euglogy for SPEC SFS, and in turn, Bryan dissects their response...
http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/moore_s_outlaws
Adam Leventhal responds to a Flash Roundup article by the 'Storage Anarchist'...
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/dancing_with_the_anarchist
...and then follows up a few days later with more detail about the bias of the author!
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/more_anarchy
Eric Schrock discusses how much work it was to build the Storage 7000 Series software
http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/how_much_work_was_it
Adam Leventhal shares some information about a presentation he delivered at WISH '09 (Workshop for Integrating Solid State Memory into the Storage Hierarchy)...
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/hsp_wish_2009
...and updates the world on Sun's introduction of the Flash drives for Servers, and the Open Flash Module
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/ssd_announcement
This blog entry contains links to various presentations on the 7000 Series delivered at CEC 2008
http://blogs.sun.com/fishworks/entry/cec_presentations
Adam Leventhal shares how the 7000 Series determines storage configuration, and provides a space calculator that can be used with a live system or Virtual Machine
http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/sun_storage_7410_space_calculator
This site includes a power calculator to help plan for your new 7410
http://blogs.sun.com/fishworks/entry/running_the_numbers
Bryan Cantrill tells the story of how Fishworks and the Sun Storage 7000 Series came to be
http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/fishworks_now_it_can_be
Cindi McGuire shares the visual representation of the Fishworks code over time
http://blogs.sun.com/cindi/entry/a_whimsical_look_at_fishworks
Mike Shapiro talks about the 'Big Picture' with Fishworks and where we're going
http://blogs.sun.com/mws/entry/introducing_the_sun_storage_7000
Gene Ruth of The Burton Group talks about SSD in Enterprise Storage with a nod to the 7000 Series:
Turns out Sun uses SSDs tailored both for write performance to handle an internal logging function and then read optimized SSD to act essentially as a really large cache. All wrapped around their open-source ZFS file system hidden within the storage subsystem. Sun is demonstrating technology leadership by tightly integrating SSD technology into a complete storage subsystem - yes others have done a pluggable replacement for a HDD, but that's fairly obvious and less then optimal.
User Interface and Administration
Todd Patrick discusses the UI design issues surrounding the concept of storage "Projects"
http://blogs.sun.com/tmp/entry/hidden_in_plain_view
Bill Pijewski explains what 'Kiosk Mode' and Session Annotation area, and why you care
http://blogs.sun.com/wdp/entry/observability_for_everyone_kiosk_mode
http://blogs.sun.com/wdp/entry/session_annotations
Bill Pijewski discusses how we implemented Access Control in the Fishworks Appliance Kit
http://blogs.sun.com/wdp/entry/fine_grained_access_control
Brendan Gregg describes the features and capabilities of the 7000 Series Status Dashboard
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/status_dashboard
Bryan Cantrill discusses the design decisions behind the CLI shell in the 7000 Series
http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/on_modalities_and_misadventures
Will Snow (an engineer for Sun.COM) shares his experiences scripting the 7000 Series
http://blogs.sun.com/was/entry/scripting_storage_amber_road_aka.
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