The Sun BestPerf blog Transparent Failover with Solaris MPxIO and Oracle ASM is a report by Akiko Marti on configuring failover with Solaris MPxIO (Multipathing), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and the Oracle Sun Storage 6180 Array, in which configuration failover was completely transparent to the Oracle database. …
System News: Sun Storage 6180 Array Outperforms IBM DS5020
Using the SPC Benchmark-1 to determine price-performance ratios for a number of storage systems, the benchmark delivered results that demonstrate a 1.9 X advantage for the Sun Storage 6180 (8Gb) array over the IBM DS5020, reported a Sun BestPerf blog. In another blog entry, testing of the same storage arrays on the SPC Benchmark-2 produced some interesting price-performance results as well. …
System News: Two New Sun Netra Servers Introduced
Two new Sun Netra servers – Sun Netra CP3270 Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) blade server and Sun Netra X4270 AC and DC carrier-grade rack server – were introduced this week. These servers are designed to help network equipment providers and communications service providers keep pace with rapidly growing demands for new services, such as 3G- and 4G-wireless data and voice-over-IP. …
System News: Enabling Smart Card Access for Oracle Virtual Desktop Client
Last month’s patch updates to the Sun Ray Server Software enabled smart card support for the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client (OVDC), formerly the Sun Desktop Access Client. Documentation advises use of the command line if wanting to enable smart card sessions. However, for those adventurous ones, J
System News: Enterprise Java Cloud Strategies Virtual Conference
Oracle’s Enterprise Java Cloud Strategies Virtual Conference will take place on September 9. This interactive virtual conference will consider the latest features and best practices for using Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g, with a special focus on how to take advantage of cloud computing architectures. …
System News: InfoWorld Announces Its Bossies Awards for 2010
For some years now, InfoWorld has been assessing open source applications and naming “best of” winners in its Best of Open Source Software (Bossie) Awards program. The report of this year’s winners includes VirtualBox as well as an informative history of open source applications and their evolution. The article notes that “open source” does not mean the same thing to everyone in the field, citing the examples of MySQL and Android to make its point. …
System News: Oracle’s Exadata Storage Server Software Version 11.2.1.3.1
Oracle’s Exadata storage server software has a new release. Version 11.2.1.3.1 includes a full OS image with an update to Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 and a number of bugs fixes to relieve cell server crashes and hangs, reports the Pythian blog’s Marc Fielding, who remarks that both storage server and database portions of this patch can be applied in a rolling fashion, avoiding entire database downtime. …
System News: Security Configuration Benchmark for Solaris 10
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a non-profit enterprise that provides enterprises with consensus best practice standards for security configurations. In July, CIS released its Security Configuration Benchmark for Solaris 10 11/06 through 10/09. …
System News: Solving a Zone Attach Fail During a Zone Upgrade
During an upgrade from OpenSolaris build 118 to build 134, one user found after a month’s use he had forgotten to upgrade zones and noticed related issues with sshd. Deciding an upgrade of the zones was necessary, the user proceeded with the process, during which the zone attach failed right in the middle of the procedure. …
System News: Some Background Information on Logzilla and Readzilla
As the title of his blog, “Fishworks history of SSDs,” suggests, Adam Leventhal parts the curtain on some of the deliberations behind bringing the 7000-series enterprise storage solution to fruition. Finding it difficult to realize the desired storage capacity using 7,200 rpm disks, Fishworks turned to the new technology of flash storage. The first solution employing flash was Logzilla, he writes. …
