Monday Jul 21, 2008
VirtualBox has the widest range of host system support and has
the lightest hardware demands, and excels for single PC personal
virtualization needs, but requires more UNIX/Linux command-line skills
when used as server virtualization solution. VMWare 2.0 has an
excellent web-management UI with the lightest client payload, but this
comes at the expense of heftier hardware requirements for good
performance and a fatter software drop on the server.[Read More]
Tuesday Aug 07, 2007
Solaris 10 has more than 5000+ certified solutions on both SPARC and x64 platforms.
Full Solution Catalog : http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/apps/
Wednesday Jun 13, 2007
Below is the excerpt from the articles for 3 comparison of ZFS against VxFS, Linux Ext3 and NTFS.
Solaris ZFS vs VxFS
In many cases, Solaris ZFS performs better at the initial release. In
some cases Solaris ZFS does not perform as well — but in almost all cases Solaris ZFS
performs differently. These results, as well as supporting testing data described in this
document, strive to give organizations sufficient detail on the differences between
Solaris ZFS and the Veritas File System so that intelligent decisions can be made about
when each technology could or should be used. Indeed, the results presented here can
help enterprises reach performance goals, if the goals can be quantified.
Solaris ZFS vs Linux Ext3
Testing results reveal:
• Solaris ZFS outperforms the ext3 file system in tests that represent the storage and
data requests typically made by database, mail server, and Web applications.
• The various ext3 file system mount options available require making a trade-off
between data integrity and performance — creating implications for environments in
which continuous access to data is critical. Such trade-offs are not necessary in
Solaris ZFS.
Solaris ZFS vs MS Windows Server 2003 NTFS
Solaris ZFS outperforms the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NTFS file system by a
factor of 1.99 to 15, depending on the test.
• A 2 TB Solaris ZFS file system can be created in 17.5 seconds using two commands. In
contrast, creating a similarly sized Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NTFS file system
involves extensive command line or graphical user interface interaction and takes
nearly four hours to complete.
• Testing of multiple disk arrays was limited due to the inability to create volumes
containing more than 32 disks in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment.
Full reports
Solaris ZFS vs Linux Ext3 :
http://blogs.sun.com/Peerapong/resource/zfs_linux.pdf
Solaris ZFS vs VERITAS VxFS:
http://blogs.sun.com/Peerapong/resource/zfs_veritas.pdf
Solaris ZFS vs W2K NTFS:
http://blogs.sun.com/Peerapong/resource/zfs_msft.pdf
Solaris ZFS vs Linux RAID : http://unixconsult.org/zfs_vs_lvm.html
My previous ZFS by examples : http://blogs.sun.com/Peerapong/entry/zfs_by_examples
