More about Directory Server and OpenDS Margin Notes

Interesting reading recently around Directory Server Enterprise Edition:

Benoit Chaffanjon did a benchmark with a new Nehalem system, Sun Blade X6270 & INTEL XEON X5560 on OpenSolaris create the ultimate Directory Server. Benoit estimates that you might get, "459,800 LDAP Operations per second on a fully loaded modular system."

Wajih Ahmed and Abdi Mohammadi wrote a BigAdmin feature article A Planning Guide for Moving to LDAP as Naming Service in the Solaris OS⁞.

Michael Teger wrote, Creating an OpenSSO User Data Store Using Sun Directory Server is Like Riding a Bicycle. Just 2 short procedures.

Arnaud Lacour has written a couple of entries recently on using Directory Proxy Server data distribution to replay the same operations against multiple data sources. The data distribution algorithm in question is referred to as the replication distribution algorithm.

Although the Directory Proxy Server replication distribution algorithm does not handle all the sort of conflict resolution corner cases that Directory Server and OpenDS replication can manage, it does let you perform best-effort replication across supported data sources.

Check out Arnaud's two entries:

• Setting DPS As Replication Hub - Part 1: A Simple Tutorial

• Setting DPS As Replication Hub - Part 2: Replication to SQL and LDAP