This Ain't Your Daddy's JBOD - "This morning, we announced the newest Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD) storage arrays. These are actually very interesting products from many perspectives. One thing for sure, these are not like any previous JBOD arrays we've ever made. The simple, elegant design and high reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features are truly innovative. Let's take a closer look..." - Richard Elling

New Open Storage Products: J4000 & X4540! - "Today we announced the newest product editions to our Open Storage offerings:  The Sun Storage J4000 product line and our next-generation "Thumper" (aka "Thor" or the Sun Fire X4540). Below is our take on the significance of these new storage products..." - Taylor Allis

New Blueprint: Configuring J4000 and ZFS in Ten Minutes  "The purpose of this short guide is to get the reader up and running with ZFS and the J4000 array. We will cover ZFS pools and file systems, the different RAID Levels such as Mirroring (between JBODS) and RAIDZ. We will demonstrate hot sparing, snapshots and online backups. Assembling volumes, building file systems on them, creating snapshots and backing them up would traditionally all require separate pieces of software. ZFS however provides a one-stop shop for all these tasks and our aim is to show how amazingly easy these things are to do - there is a Graphical User Interface provided with ZFS but although these tasks are critical, ZFS is simple enough to the accomplish them without it."

The Zen of OpenSolaris - " Come and see David Comay, among others, talk about OpenSolaris in SecondLife - join us at the Sun Campus, or the live stream on Wednesday 07:30 PT 9th July." - Glynn Foster

COMSTAR iSER/iSCSI binary drops available! - "Development is moving along pretty quickly for the iSER project. We are churning out weekly builds for development for COMSTAR iSCSI and iSER..." says Peter Buckingham.

Better late than never - a ZFS bringover-like util - "... So here's the afore-mentioned "other part": a kinda-sorta replacement for bringover, using ZFS snapshots and clones. Both Bill and DarrenM have mentioned something of this in the past, and you know what - the script I just hacked together is about 3 lines of content, 1 line of #! magic and 16 lines of arg checking...." - James McPherson

A presentation from Spencer Shepler and Siddheshwar Mahesh on pNFS in OpenSolaris - SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 2007), now available in iPod video format.

pNFS in OpenSolaris - download the presentation (pdf)

Sumit Gupta presents at SNIA SDC (September, 2007) on on the new Common Multi-Protocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR) for Solaris. Now available for download in iPod video format.

ADM with ZFS Demo Available - Walter Moriconi alerts us to an umissable screencast.

Friday's Storage Links: Week of June 16, 2008 - Don't miss this extremely useful weekly roundup from Taylor Allis!

"...I also test our various storage products with VMware ESX. One of the things I wanted to tinker with was Project COMSTAR and how, even at this early stage of development, it looked with VMware ESX." - read what happened next at Ryan Arneson's Weblog.

"You have lots of company" says Mark Carlson. "Storage Servers have been around since the days when Sun first put NFS on their workstations. Administrators would load up one workstation with disks and share it with the others. Even today, a large percentage of our "servers" end up as storage servers when deployed." Read more at his blog, Management Monogatari. 

Next week Deirdré, Jim Grisanzio, Jim Walker, and others will be at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague. There's a great roster of speakers on all sorts of topics near and dear to developers' hearts. And a dinner cruise on the river. Oh, and did I mention the beer..?

ZFS In The Wild, Part 5 - "It's been over a year since I last posted sightings of ZFS around the web, so it's high time I offered another list..." (read it over at Mark Musante's Multithreaded Musings)

It's a Nelson - Honeycomb 1.1.1 RRs - "Today is the day the Honeycomb 1.1.1 RRs. I've already blogged about this a few times. But we are finally ready to release this to our customers." - Peter Buckingham

XAM Java Binding Overview - "The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) is new kind of storage interface for storage devices that can handle a special type of data, called "Fixed Content". Version 1.0 is soon to be released, but there is a working draft available of the Architecture Specification, the C Language Binding and the Java Language Binding. It is this last document that this post covers. A good introduction to XAM is the beginning chapters of the Architecture specification, and that document covers the normative behavior required for implementations of the interface." - Mark Carlson

 

Taylor's Take Links - Taylor Allis rounds up storage stuff from all over the web.

The ABCs of Services -  " Need some OPA or PDQ anyone? A bit of SBL, a nip of RTPH?" - Amy O'Connor

ONC RPC program number list - "The IETF NFSv4 Working Group has been going through a lot of house cleaning lately in support of NFSv4.1. One of those items is an update of RFC 1831..." Spencer Shepler

Dan says: "Randy, one of my whiz developers is ready to integrate his MPxIO for tape changes in build 93. This is a cool project and pretty bleeding edge. Great work and we need a code review."

Learn how to contribue in I need a code review

Our list of storage bloggers continues to grow, so here's an updated set. Note that there's an aggregated RSS feed of all these blogs available in the Open Solaris Storage community.

Some of the fine folks who bring you Sun's Solaris storage software are also bloggers. Some of their blogs are technical, some are personal, most are a mix (as reflected in their categories/tags, included here for your convenience). We think you'll find them all interesting and/or useful. Happy reading!

Title	Author	categories/tags
devices...	James McPherson	amd64 Coding Conferences General Java Music OpenSolaris Solaris Travel ZFS
Aaron's Weblog	Aaron Dailey	About Me China FibreChannel General Solaris
Adam Leventhal	Adam Leventhal	DTrace | OpenSolaris | Other | Software | ZFS
Alok Aggarwal's Weblog	Alok Aggarwal	Music | NFS
AmyO's Blog	Amy O’connor	Open Source Personal Storage Sun
As Good A Place As Any	Tim Thomas	Miscellaneous NAS OpenSolaris Personal SAMBA Storage Archive Manager Sun Sun Fire X4500
BG Blog	Barry Greenberg
Bizarre ! Vous avez dit Bizarre ?	Roch Bourbonnais	General | ZFS
blogbert..	Robert Gordon
Bob Porras' Blog	Bob Porras	Personal Sun
Chalfant’s Blog	Randy Chalfant	Personal Sun
Dave Weibel	Dave Weibel*
David Zhang’s blog	David Zhang
Dominic Kay	Dominic Kay	Filebench Oddities Open Source Paper Boy Performance Visualisation Storage
Don Traub's Weblog	Don Traub	General | Humor | Personal
Doug McCallum's Share Manager Weblog	Doug McCallum	General Java Music
Eet Not Crang	Torrey McMahon	General Music Storage What I Do
Eric Kustarz's Weblog	Eric Kustarz	FileBench | NFS | SETUP | ZFS
Event Horizon	Dave Hollister	* COMSTAR * JDS * MPxIO * OSD * OSS
Grant Zhang - Snapshot of life	Grant Zhang
Jeff Bonwick	Jeff Bonwick	General Slab Allocator ZFS
Jim Walker	Jim Walker
Ken Gibson's Storage Networking Blog	Ken Gibson*	General Java Music
Kool Aid Served Daily	Tom Haynes
Lin Ling	Lin Ling
Lori Alt's Weblog	Lori Alt	Personal Sun ZFS
Management Monogatari	Mark A. Carlson
Mark Maybee	Mark Maybee	ZFS
Mark Shellenbaum	Mark Shellenbaum	ZFS
Matthew Ahrens	Matthew Ahrens	General Solaris ZFS
Multithreaded Musings	Mark Musante
Neelakanth Nadgir's blog	Neelkanth Nadgir
Neil Perrin	Neil Perrin	Solaris ZFS
Nigel Dessau	Nigel Dessau*	Personal Sun Storage
Paul@Sun - Musings about my life at Sun.	Paul Kasper	c c++ developer edition education express games networking social solaris students studio sun teacher temple tools web wikis wikis.sun.com
Quickstick	Scott Tracy
Ramblings from Richard's Ranch	Richard Elling	availability baseball benchmark braves cluster cmt cows developer diversity ducks ecc eco fire fma freebsd hockey hpc indiana java javaone jogl m4000 m5000 m8000 m9000 markov memory mlb.com model mtbs mttdl niagara2 opensolaris opensparc oracle padres performability performance pet-peeves rac raid ramona ranch ras rascad reliability repair sdosug server serviceability sheep solaris sparc storagetek t2 t2plus t5120 t5220 tarantula thumper ultrasparc v490 witch worldwind x4500 zfs
Reed's Online Notes	Reed Liu
Reflections on OS addiction	Eric Schrock	DTrace General OpenSolaris Software Solaris ZFS
rohrer@borealis	Lynn Rohrer
SAM-QFS	Ted Pogue	Personal Sun
SAMF	Sam Falkner	DTrace | General | Music | NFS | SMF | Solaris
Storage Stop	Group blog	* All * OpenSolaris * Sun * Tools * Video
Sumit Gupta's Blog	Sumit Gupta
Sumit Gupta's HBA Insights	Sumit Gupta**	General Java Music
Taylor's Take on Sun Storage	Taylor Allis	amazon disk eco emc honeycomb ibm open opensolaris openstorage saas solaris storage storagetek sun sunstorage tape thumper virtualization vtl web2.0 x4500 zfs Storage Intelligence
The "Availability Suite"	Jim Dunham
The Long Purple Line	Dan Maslowski
The Robinson Factor	David Robinson*
theShepler	Spencer Shepler
Tim Foster	Tim Foster	Off-topic OpenSolaris OpenSolaris Monthly Translation, language and tools ZFS
Umang Kumar's Weblog	Umang Kumar
Valdis Filks	Valdis Filks
Weblog of Jeff Cheeney	Jeff Cheeney	Open Source Storage Personal Solaris Sun
数据管理	Roger Dong

"Much of the focus of high performance computing (HPC) has centered on CPU performance. However, as computing requirements grow, HPC clusters are demanding higher rates of aggregate data throughput. Today's clusters feature larger numbers of nodes with increased compute speeds. The higher clock rates and operations per clock cycle create increased demand for local data on each node. In addition, InfiniBand and other high-speed, low-latency interconnects increase the data throughput available to each node." 

read more of  Implementing the Lustre File System with Sun Storage

Visit Peter Buckingham's blog for more info.

Taylor Allis explains it all for you:

"I've received a lot of questions about the support for Open Storage from customers and competitors.  And for good reason - if something isn't working the way you want it to, you need to know there is someone to count on for support.  This is true for traditional products; and is even more critical when it comes to products that incorporate open source software.    

I'll briefly explain Sun's support model around open source and Open Storage.  This model is also evolving over time and will only get better..."

Read more at Taylor's Take on Sun Storage. 

While I was travelling without Internet access, the gang went and open-sourced Honeycomb 1.1.1. Read all about it over on Peter Buckingham's blog.