Amanda Enterprise Edition from Zmanda is a powerful, low-cost, open source backup and recovery system to protect Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac environments using a single management console. By providing a backup and recovery solution that combines fast installation, simplified management, enterprise-class functionality, and low-cost subscription fees, the Amanda Enterprise Edition is an open source product that uses only standard formats and tools, effectively allowing users to recover archived data without the hassle of vendors.
A Sun BigAdmin article, "Sun StorageTek 6140 Array Storage Solution for 6000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007", describes a Microsoft Exchange 2007 primary storage solution on the Sun StorageTek 6140 array that is targeted for an environment in which there are mailboxes for 6000 users.
Readers will find a BigAdmin report of the test conducted on the appropriateness of the "Sun StorageTek 6540 Array Storage Solution for 20,000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007," as the study is entitled. It provides information on a Sun Microsystems storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP).
A BigAdmin guide describes configuring the Sun Storage J4400 array as a disk cache for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software 7.4. In this article, readers are provided with an example of configuring the ZFS file system on the Solaris 10 OS and configuring StorageTek EBS 7.4 to utilize the Sun Storage J4400 array as disk cache. By using this 14 page PDF as a guide, rates of over 1 Tbyte backup throughput, per hour are what the author is hoping to help users achieve.
Sun's Customer Ready Infinite Archive System (IAS) is a preconfigured, multi-tiered storage data archiving and Information Life Cycle platform, that provides capacity improvements, flexible configuration options, and increased system performance. The IAS is the renamed, third generation of Sun's Content Infrastructure System (CIS).
IAS comes preconfigured and ready to run with all the complicated work already done, resulting in an efficient implementation and faster time to production.
Policy-based, tier-to-tier migration lowers the cost of an IAS system which can
scale from 9.6 TB to 180+ TB in a single configuration.
IAS meets SEC compliance requirements for document storage, retention, and retrieval.
Ryan Arneson's BigAdmin guide, "Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5 Software," is an introduction to configuring the Sun Storage J4400 array as a disk cache for the Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5 application.
Given the phenomenal growth in networks, storage and the hunger for bandwidth, NFS is becoming eclipsed as a standard and may well be replaced by parallel NFS. At least that is the contention of Thijs Stuurman in his paper on the subject.
Dominic Kay has written a Sun BluePrint entitled "Provisioning with ISCSI and Solaris ZFS in 10 Minutes that offers a solution to the long-standing problem of using ISCSI interfaces to create configurations that are easy to administer. Kay shows how low-cost devices can be combined with the Solaris ZFS file system to take advantage of file system robustness and ease of administration. The article provides a streamlined set of instructions for provisioning an iSCSI array with the Solaris ZFS file system. Kay includes instructions for both the Solaris 10 OS and the OpenSolaris OS, which uses the COMSTAR framework.
Joerg Moellenkamp, a Senior Systems Engineer at Sun and the author of the "Lesser Known Features of Solaris"
tutorials, has posted a excellent presentation called "SSD at Sun" that asks "Why Solid State Disks?"
The 67-page slide presentation is designed to be read on-line. We have also included a link to a technical review on SSDs at anandtech.com by Anand Lal Shimpi.
Hitachi Data Systems announced that its Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V (Sun StorageTek 9990V) attained the highest Benchmark 2 performance result, topping all storage systems in its class by an eight-fold factor. The USP V achieved an aggregated average of 8,724.67 SPC-2 MBPSTM using a single storage controller.
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