Archive for the ‘Sun & Solaris’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Sun's super-secret-squirrel storage appliance project has been under wraps for years now. We're talking Apple style secrecy.
About a week ago they finally launched product. Another cool bit of news is that there is a vmware 'simulator' version available for download. cool.
The "fishworks" project was rumoured to be Sun's NetApp killer ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Upside: good granular resource management. efficient disk usage.
Downside: one Solaris kernel. shared ethernet interfaces.
Solaris Containers ( = Zones plus Resource Management) and ZFS is pure joy, especially the ability to clone zones to save disk space. There is a bit of a gotcha though. As Solaris hasn't got boot ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Sweet!
Maximum Ethernet transfer rate
10 Gb/sec for each single port
16 Gb/sec total for both ports
Host Interface
x8 lane PCI-Express 1.1
Network Interface
Two instantiations of XAUI, IEEE 802.ae, 2002 compliant
Optics
10GBase-SR, 10GBase-LR
IEEE 802.3ae 2002 compliant
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
I set up LDOMs on a T2000 recently to have a play and learn about them. This pdf is a good intro to LDOMs.
Basically, the steps are; install solaris (11/06 or greater), upgrade firmware, install LDOM software, configure installed solaris instance as the first control LDOM, reboot. repeat, rinse, RTFM ...
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