A walkthrough to the Sun Storage Simulator - Part 1: Initial Config - "I hope that you won´t say after this walkthrough, that Sun can't develop a decent GUI. I´ve used the VMware based storage simulator for the Sun Storage 7000 series to create a short walkthrough to the installation of an Fishworks based system. When you start up the simulator, the output starts similar to an ordinary Solaris system. But shortly afterwards there are some differences...." - with TONS of screenshots - Joerg Moellenkamp
Joerg has written several other valuable posts on the topic (while ill and jet-lagged in Las Vegas), so make sure you look at the rest of his blog.
Fishworks Launches in Las Vegas - "...I'm going to write about FW a lot more in the next couple days, but I want to make it very clear that while Analytics is sexxy and gets a lot of attention, this is a world class storage system that will rival your existing storage solutions both in terms of performance and ease-of-use, not to mention functionality. Watch the launch videos for an over-view and then start playing with the Sim." - Ben Rockwood
Sun’s Unified Storage Simulator - "...Trying to get performance data from any vendor has always been a painful exercise - either they flatly refused to do it (”Just buy more cache!”) or else you had to pay a truly extortionate amount to get their performance software.Ben has also written several articles about ZFS lately that I had overlooked til now - give them a look as well:
With Sun’s USS systems you can just unleash Dtrace. The same tools you’re using to manage and profile your servers can now be used on your storage..." - Tom Kranz
