Sun BluePrints Article on Accelerating Databases With Sun Storage Arrays

This article by Jeffrey Wright, "Accelerating Databases with the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array," shows how storing database indexes on flash storage can improve performance. (Registration required.)

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 19, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

New Products in Sun's FlashFire Portfolio for Database and Storage Performance

Two new products are out in Sun's FlashFire portfolio: Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array (solid-state flash array for accelerating database applications) and Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card (combination of up to 96GB Flash memory with a SAS disk controller to optimize storage performance of Sun servers). A white paper shows how the flash array can accelerate databases (registration required).

Posted at 09:30AM Oct 12, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[3]

Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine

This white paper by Oracle introduces the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Sun Oracle Database Machine. The paper examines the Exadata architecture and includes information on the database server software, Exadata storage virtualization, and other topics. (The PDF download is under White Papers in the right nav of the Oracle Exadata page.)

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 09, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Designing Storage Solutions With High Availability for Sun Java System Messaging Server

This white paper describes a proof-of-concept large messaging server implementation based on Sun servers with CoolThreads technology running the Sun Java System Messaging Server, the Solaris Operating System, ZFS, and Sun storage arrays. (Log in, please.)

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 02, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Multilingual Subtitles for Sun Videos

Some Sun videos now offer subtitles, available in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese. To find multilingual versions, click on the language link in the tag cloud on the right of the videos page. Then click on the Captions pull-down menu (upper left of video screen) to select the desired language.

Posted at 10:38AM Sep 22, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[2]

Using Microsoft Windows on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

A Sun engineer has written a guide for implementing and integrating Sun Open Storage systems in a Microsoft Windows environment. Topics include creating and sharing file systems in both domain and workgroup mode, joining a domain, mounting CIFS shares, and managing object rights.

Posted at 09:40AM Sep 16, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Backup and Recovery Snapshots for VMware ESX Server With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

This implementation guide shows methods for performing array-based backup and recovery operations for VMware ESX Server and VMware vSphere virtual machine environments. The procedures use the snapshot, clone, rollback, and replication features of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System.

Posted at 08:00AM Sep 04, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Sun Unified Storage Simulator

Sign up for Sun Unified Storage Simulator 2009.Q2.0.0 so you can install and manage a virtual Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System on your laptop or desktop. The Simulator comes as either a VirtualBox or VMware VM.

Posted at 08:00AM Sep 01, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Using Symantec Enterprise Vault With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

This article shows how to quickly configure and deploy the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System as a vault store target for Symantec Enterprise Vault. The author, a Sun Systems engineer, also describes how to set up a file system archive.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 21, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Deploying Apache HTTP Web Server on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

This Sun BluePrints article (login required) explains how to install the Apache HTTP Web Server on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, and invoke Web Services from the storage appliance. In addition, scenarios designed to aid consolidation efforts and simplify management are included.

Posted at 08:00AM Jun 18, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Deploying Oracle ASM Using iSCSI on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

This new article describes how to configure storage volumes for export as iSCSI targets, and then configure those iSCSI logical unit numbers (LUNs) at the database server to be used for Oracle ASM.

Posted at 08:00AM May 14, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Here's a new article from Sun engineers on the BigAdmin site for sys admins. Find out how to configure and deploy the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Oracle RAC infrastructure, using the Solaris OS or RHEL.

Posted at 08:00AM May 13, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Quick-Start Guides: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Check out the updates to the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. With these systems, Sun has shipped over 17 PB of storage to hundreds of customers in less than six months.

Here are two new guides to using these systems, written by Sun Systems engineers:
- Virus Scanning on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
- Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Posted at 09:45AM May 05, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Updates for the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Sun continues to add innovation through the following new updates to the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System. Sun has

• Doubled the capacity of the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System (4 terabytes [TB])
• More than tripled the capacity of the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System (142 TB)
• Added over 15 feature enhancements in this quarter's Sun Storage 7000 update (Software 2009.Q2)

Download and experience the virtual versions of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems from the Tech Resources page.

Posted at 08:37AM May 05, 2009 by GD in Sun  | 

Deploying Oracle Siebel CRM on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

Here's a Sun BluePrints guide for installing Oracle Siebel CRM 8 software on the scalable open storage of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. (Login needed.)

Posted at 08:00AM Apr 14, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |