... by Vince Carbone
{quote}
The Peoplesoft Payroll application is I/O latency sensitive. That is the performance of this workload hinges on the reducing the response time of physical I/Os, primarily single block reads. This can be easily seen by from the 'Top 5 Timed Foreground Events' section of the Oracle AWR Report.
[MySQL Innodb ZFS Best Practices|http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/mysql_innodb_zfs_best_practices]
{quote}
by Neelakanth Nadgir
{quote}
Some of the tunings that can be applied to get better performance with ZFS as well as performance bugs which when fixed will nullify the need for some of these tunings.
[Sun Storage 7000 Series Identity Mapping - Seamlessly Sharing Files Between Windows and Unix Platforms|http://blogs.sun.com/blueprints/entry/sun_storage_7000_series_identity]
{quote}
by Dean Halbeisen
{quote}
The need to integrate Windows platforms and UNIX platforms is definitely not a new challenge for IT professionals. With OpenSolaris we (Sun) took a very intuitive approach to address this challenge by building the CIFS stack directly into the OpenSolaris kernel.
[Casting the shadow of the Hybrid Storage Pool|http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/shadow_of_hsp]
{quote}
by Adam Leventhal
{quote}
The debate, calmly waged, on the best use of flash in the enterprise can be summarized as whether flash should be a replacement for disk, acting as primary storage, or it should be regarded as a new, and complementary tier in the storage hierarchy, acting as a massive read cache. The market leaders in storage have weighed in the issue, and have declared incontrovertibly that, yes, both are the right answer, but there's some bias underlying that equanimity. Chuck Hollis, EMC's Global Marketing CTO, writes, that "flash as cache will eventually become less interesting as part of the overall discussion... Flash as storage? Well, that's going to be really interesting." Standing boldly with a foot in each camp, Dave Hitz, founder and EVP at Netapp, thinks that "Flash is too expensive to replace disk right away, so first we'll see a new generation of storage systems that combine the two: flash for performance and disk for capacity." So what are these guys really talking about, what does the landscape look like, and where does Sun fit in all this?
[Save money with Open Storage|http://blogs.sun.com/WebScale/entry/open_storage_for_webscale_apps]
{quote}
by Alka Gupta
{quote}
Open Storage helps you save time and money for Web-scale Applications.
Check this excellent [benchmark|http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/web_2_0_consolidation_sun] for Web 2.0 run on Sun Storage 7410 (aka AmberRoad) and CMT technology based Sun Fire T5120 servers.
Its also evident from the benchmark data that you don't suffer a performance penalty for using NAS. There is a fairly common impression that performance could/would be slower than DAS, this shows that it's just not true with this environment.
[ISV reaction to Sun Storage 7000|http://blogs.sun.com/georg/entry/isv_reaction_to_sun_storage]
{quote}
by Georg Edelmann
{quote}
Presented with the vision of building storage appliances from industry-standard hardware components, OpenSolaris and open-source software, the most common reactions was that it's about time that all the innovation happening in server land is being transplanted into the storage world by a major IT vendor. The time for closed, proprietary storage devices has come and gone. ...
[A new Networked Appliance is the Appliance Appliance for Storage and IT|http://blogs.sun.com/bobp/en_US/entry/a_network_appliance_becomes_the]
{quote}
by Bob Porras
{quote}
Going against the establishment or trying to redefine standards in an industry is always hard. ...
[Sun Storage 7000 Basics|http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/sun_storage_7000_basics]
{quote}
by Marc Hamilton
{quote}
But then comes storage. For some reason, the economics of open source and industry standard components, previous to today, have escaped the world of storage. Well, the economics have just changed. ...
[Follow The Amber Brick Road|http://blogs.sun.com/openstorage]
{quote}
by Aaron Newcomb
{quote}
What is different about this storage system?? Everything! ...
[Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array and Web2.0|http://blogs.sun.com/mheckel/entry/sun_storage_7410_unified_storage]
{quote}
by Marcus Heckel - Benchmarking Guy
{quote}
With the Sun Storage 7410, ease of storage management, reliability, and performance makes it an intriguing choice for consolidating Web2.0 storage. So we decided to take a look at why this device might be a good fit. My particular environment consisted of a Sun Fire T5120 for the web tier consolidation, and the 7410, with 1x J4400 and 24x 700GB SATA drives. ...
[Wowza Media Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage Array|http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/wowza_media_sun_storage_7210]
{quote}
by BM Seer
{quote}
Wowza Media Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage Array NAS Streaming at more than 735 MB/sec! The Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage Array (SS7210) provides high performance with industry-leading price-performance for Video on Demand applications. The Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage Array can support up to 5,880 users for 1 Mbits/s (Mb/s) streaming video files...
[One of the ways we tested the ZFS L2ARC|http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/one_of_the_ways_we]
{quote}
by Tim Foster
{quote}
Today's a very interesting day for storage systems - it's cool to see the Fishworks team are announcing the Sun Storage 7000 series systems: congratulations one and all. Great things are afoot in my opinion, these are fantastic systems...
[Using ZFS as a Network Attach Controller and the Value of Solid State Devices|http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/using_zfs_as_a_network]
{quote}
by Roch (rhymes with Spock) Bourbonnais
{quote}
So Sun is coming out today with a line of Sun Storage 7000 systems that have ZFS as the integrated volume and filesystem manager using both read and write optimized SSD. What is this Hybrid Storage Pool and why is this a good performance architecture for storage ? A write optimized SSD is a custom designed device for the purpose of accelerating operations of the ZFS intent log (ZIL). The ZIL is the part of ZFS that manages the important synchronous operation guaranteeing that such writes are acknowledged quickly to applications while guaranteeing persistence in case of outage. Data stored in the ZIL is also kept in memory until ZFS issue the next Transaction Groups (every few seconds)...
[Kicking the Crap Out of Storage Economics|http://blogs.sun.com/simons/entry/kicking_the_crap_out_of]
{quote}
by Josh Simons: The Navel of Narcissus
{quote}
While I'm mostly a "compute" guy, I know very well that at the end of the day servers are really just data manipulators and that for our customers storage plays an absolutely central role in their businesses. Which is why I've watched with fascination as some of Sun's best engineers banded together with the deliberate intention of rethinking how storage products are built, how they are priced, and what they can do. Today, Sun has announced the fruits of their labors--the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems...
h3. Flash Blueprints
{contentbylabel:flash,blueprint|operator=AND|key=BluePrints|excerpt=true|maxResults=99}
{column}
{column:width=20%}
\\
{panel:title=Contents}{toc}{panel}
\\
{panel:title=Resources|bgColor=#F8D583|borderStyle=solid}
* [Sun Storage 7000 Storage Systems|http://www.sun.com/unifiedstorage]
* [Sun Storage 7000 Management Software]
* [Sun Storage 7000 Management Software Demonstration]
* [Sun Unified Storage Simulator 2008.11|https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=SunStorageSim-1.0-OTH-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI]
* [Other Resources|http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp]
{panel}
{column}
{section} |