Monthly Archives: May 2009

ZFS, /etc/zfs/zpool.cache and suncluster

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

ZFS still a very young FS and many new features with every new Solaris update and ZFS patch This blog talk about /etc/zfs/zpool.cache behind the sence of zpool The need of /etc/zfs/zpool.cache to speed up the import of ZFS may … Continue reading →

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PCA- Patch Check advanced

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

Analyze, download and install patches for Sun Solaris. By chance, I find this patching tool PCA Created by Martin Paul Institute of Scientific Computing Nordbergstrasse 15/C/3 1090 Wien Austria It seems has many follower Other say about pca Patch Check … Continue reading →

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xvm Ops Center

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

Get the Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1 Select the level of management requirements you need from one of the following offerings: xVM Ops Center Controller Provides the ability to access data from all proxies Standard Agent Pack For basic monitoring … Continue reading →

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xvm-server latest

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This is the latest development in xVM-server posted by duncanha on April 30, 2009 Sun are concentrating on including xVM Server EA as a Beta-level feature of the next Ops Center release and will be pushing towards full support of … Continue reading →

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Sun Storage 7xxx Unfied Storage System

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Sun announced Sun Storage 7xxx Unified System the first product of the family 7110, one can find the docs here http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/stor-7110 Product Description The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage products provide efficient file and block data services to clients over … Continue reading →

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virtual iron first look

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Virtual iron first look The Virtual Iron solution consists of three components: VI – Center provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources. It streamlines tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduces data center … Continue reading →

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Sun Net Connect to be disabled on May 30, 2009

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

Email send to all registered Net Connect customer on march 11, 2009 Sun Alert 257308 “On may 30, 2009 Sun Net Connect Service will be disabled. Failure to uninstall Client may cause downtime” replacement solutions Services Tools Bundle (STB) Sun … Continue reading →

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solaris 10 05/09 u7 release what’s new

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

what new features of 05/09 (u7) release: what new Support Added for Using ZFS ClonesWhen Cloning a Zone If the source and the target zonepaths reside on ZFS and both are in the same pool, a snapshot of the source … Continue reading →

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QDR Magnum infiniband Switch

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

During the sc08 Sun did showcase the new QDR Magnum infiniband Switch QDR Magnum infibiband Switch Based on Mellanox InfiniScale IV 36-port 40 Gb/s Infiniband Switch Silicon 36 4X or 12 8X or 12 12X InfiniBand ports, or a combination … Continue reading →

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ZFS

Posted on May 17, 2009 by

One of best feature in Solaris 10 is ZFS ZFS was introduced in Solaris 10 update 2 , but ZFS is very young FS, there are many advancement in opensolaris and some are backported in Soalris 10. Recently the intruducation … Continue reading →

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