EASIER, FASTER, SAFER...on SUN Technology for Sun Partners

Take advantage of some free technical Webinars conducted by Sun's experts.[Read More]

The first wiki page with the Solaris system utilization is ready!

Enjoy it and check it out right here

The page is a recompilation of our performance primer which is available as a blog and as a book from Darryl Gove.

So what's new here?

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Jeff Victor has published zonestat as an OpenSolaris.org project. It's allows to monitor resources at a zone level including limits (caps). zonestat is a very useful utility for users who deal with zone based virtualisation. Details are covered in the Solaris Performance Primer,

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As posted before: perfbar 1.2 is now final. Read the previous entry to get perfbar 1.2. Key features:

  • layout optimized for CMT servers
  • more command options
  • improved rendering performance
  • Available for Sparc and x86 with Solaris
A must have crown jewel in your performance monitoring tool kit. A big thank you to the Ralph Bogendörfer who maintains the tool. 
The new ZFS write throttle feature, which integrated in Nevada build 87, specifically addresses write intensive workloads. Today, we take a closer look at the write throttle in action...[Read More]
Optimizing application performance is a multi-facet undertaking. Among all the tools and methods available to us, getting a glimpse at performance metrics from the processor point of view allows us to highlight yet another facet of the application. Most modern microprocessors include so-called performance counters that provide event based drill-down of the processor utilisation and efficiency...[Read More]
this document publishes the presentations from the Partner Briefing in Zagreb, Croatia.[Read More]

02 Jun 2008 - Telco & Media Solaris User Group

London Customer Briefing Center, Sun Microsystems Ltd, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AN (See map)

This event will be looking at how you can get best performance from Solaris running on UltraSPARC Sun Fire Niagara T1 and Sun Fire T2 Coolthread systems. We will also be discussing virtualising with Solaris - which options to chose, when and why. We will be joined by our leading Solaris experts who will open the discussion.

Agenda
  • 09:00 - 09:30: Registration and Breakfast - City CBC
  • 09:30 - 09:45: Welcome & Setting the agenda - Mike Osbourne
  • 09:45 - 11:45: Open Discussion:
    - Delivering best performance from T1 & T2 architectures
    - Virtualising with Solaris - LDoms, Zones and Containers
  • 11.45: Networking and lunch

ISV TechBriefings

These worldwide forums will provide you with access to the most recent news announcements and developments in Sun's strategy and product roadmaps as well as the select opportunity to meet with Sun and alliance partner thought leaders and technology experts.

Come listen to the latest updates on :
   * Sun Systems Overview
   * Solaris10 & Virtualization Technologies
   * Sun's Open Source Strategy (OpenSolaris, MySQL, OpenSPARC)
   * Java Technology

We look forward to your participation!
Space is limited for the Sun Technology Briefing, so please register by May 20th, 2008 at the below link to ensure we can reserve your space.

You will receive a confirmation email with directions, agenda and other details after registration is completed.

https://events-at-sun.com/techbriefings/

Webinar or please join in...

France (Paris)
Ireland
England
Germany (Frankfurt)
Singapore
Bulgaria (Sofia)
Croatia (Zagreb)
UAE (Dubai)
Saudi Arabia (Rijad)
Egypt (Cairo)
South Africa (Johannesburg)
Tunisia


in der Sprachkategorie "Deutsch" betreuen wir jetzt auch explizit die deutschsprachigen Softwarepartner in der Schweiz. Wir freuen uns auf unser erstes Code Camp am 27.5.2008 in Hegnau bei Zürich![Read More]
This chapter of the Solaris Performance Primer is getting closer to the monitored process. The chapter discusses a number of interesting prstat options including micro accounting. prstat is pivtal to initially charecterize an applications ability to scale on a large system.
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This chapter of the Performance Primer deals with the system utilisation. Single CPU systems are a thing of the past. New systems can have hundreds of execution threads. This chapter answes questions like: Is may system overloaded? Is my system bound by a few process who can not scale? Is my system trashing? Have a look for this dozen of standard commands which may make your day.[Read More]
Ein wrap zum Performance Code Camp in Langen. Sie finden hier die aktualiserten Materialen des Code Camps.[Read More]
The second chapter of the Solaris Performance Primer deals with a must have utility: dimsSTAT. dimSTAT a freely available monitoring tool will monitor entire data centers while you are gone fishing...[Read More]
This blog entry is based on an ISV-Engineering performance code camp for software partners. We are publishing the 30 most important freely available tools and commands to figure why a system isn't scaling in this sequence of blog entries. Be aware: this is more a basic cookbook in a "minute man" style which hopefully helps to solve 80% of the common problems in 10 minutes. Enjoy and read more...[Read More]
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