Sun Storage 7000 Series - Articals & Blueprints

[apaton]

Setting up Sun's Unified Storage S7000, no excuse not to RTFM.

One to get us going - VMWARE backups and S7000 hot off the shelf!

PDF - Backup and Recovery Snapshots for VMware ESX Server With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

[Duke]

Thanks for posting these and some of the others you've pointed us to as well!

Andy (Cutter) / Phil (Sun) - How easily are these being made available to customers? The MS Windows integration documentation is something a lot of customers will benefit from before they get started with the S7000. If Sun aren't able to include them with the box, is it something suppliers could be sending out, even if it's just a list of links to these 'best practices' files?

Chris

[cookie_monster]

Will there be a similar document or features for Xenserver?

[apaton]

Another guide, maybe even closer to edugeek's heart

Joomla! Deployment Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems


http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features...torage7000.pdf

Contents

• 1. Overview
  
  • 1.1 Intent
  • 1.2 Background
  • 1.3 Server and OS Setup
  • 1.4 About Joomla!
  
  
• 2. Installing and Using Joomla! With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
  
  • 2.1 Applicable Services for Unified Storage Systems
    
    • 2.1.1 NFS
    • 2.1.2 CIFS/SMB
    • 2.1.3 iSCSI
    
    
  • 2.2 Potential Configurations Utilizing Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
  • 2.3 Step-by-Step Installation
    
    • 2.3.1 Setting Up the Share on the Storage Device
    • 2.3.2 Setting Up MySQL
    • 2.3.3 Setting Up Joomla!
    
    
  
  
• 3. Tuning Joomla! Performance
• 4. In Summary

Andy

[apaton]

If Sun aren't able to include them with the box, is it something suppliers could be sending out, even if it's just a list of links to these 'best practices' files?

Speaking as Sun Reseller/Supplier/Consultant, we create our own internal "best practices" documents and these are WTL's "Crown Jewels".

WTL have installed S7000 in to many different customers, all requiring different features (LDAP ID Mapping/FTP Server/Remote Site Snapshot Backups/ESX DR Recovery/Archive storage...) this varied experiences help WTL build a constantly evolving “best practise” documentation.

Sun over the years have published blueprints and reference articles, which I read regularly to improve WTL's internal documentation. We also learn from our customer experiences and feedback that information. As with any product there is documentation/manuals but they never impart knowledge on which is best practice.
Ie NFS or iSCSI for ESX, NDMP backup or CIFS mount to Backup Exec.......

This knowledge is a key differentiator between us and our competitors, so sorry not going to give it away.

But happy to point out any information freely available to all.

Andy

[Duke]

This knowledge is a key differentiator between us and our competitors, so sorry not going to give it away.

But happy to point out any information freely available to all.

Completely understandable and I think we all appreciate it!

[apaton]

Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3)
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features...loy_2009q3.pdf

Contents

• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Tested Configurations
• 3.0 Configuring a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  
  • 3.1 Storage Configuration
  • 3.2 Configuring Users and SSH Access
  • 3.3 Creating a Project
  • 3.4 Creating File Systems
  
  
• 4.0 Configuring Oracle Database Server - The Solaris Operating System
• 5.0 Configuring Oracle Database Server - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• 6.0 Configuring the Oracle 11g Direct NFS Feature
  
  • 6.1 Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  • 6.2 Database Server
  
  
• 7.0 Conclusion
• 8.0 Glossary

[apaton]

Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g or 11g Release 1 on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3)

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features...rac_2009q3.pdf

Contents

• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Tested Configurations
• 3.0 Configuring a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  
  • 3.1 Storage Configuration
  • 3.2 Configuring Users and SSH Access
  • 3.3 Creating a Project
  • 3.4 Creating File Systems for NFS Access
  
  
• 4.0 Configuring Oracle Clusterware on a Solaris Client
  
  • 4.1 Preparing RAC Nodes
  • 4.2 Installing Oracle Clusterware Software
  
  
• 5.0 Configuring an Oracle Database Server
  
  • 5.1 Installing Oracle Database Binaries
  • 5.2 Creating a RAC Database
  
  
• 6.0 Configuring the Oracle 11g Direct NFS Feature
  
  • 6.1 Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  • 6.2 Database Server Configuration (to Be Done on All Nodes)
  
  
• 7.0 Creating Oracle RAC Infrastructure Using Oracle ASM Over iSCSI LUNs
  
  • 7.1 Prerequisite
  • 7.2 Creating LUNs on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  • 7.3 Configuring iSCSI LUNs in Each RAC Node
  • 7.4 Configuring Oracle ASM Instance on RAC Nodes
  
  
• 8.0 Using Data Protection Features for Oracle RAC Infrastructure
• 9.0 Glossary

[Duke]

Oracle software on a Sun product? How strange...

[apaton]

Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics @ LISA09


Video of a a presentation on DTrace and S7000 by [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cantrill"]Bryan Cantrill[/ame], one the key guys behind the S7000.
This guy is extremely passionate about DTrace, which along with Kstats is the power behind Sun Analytics.

Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics - Sun Video

[apaton]

Oracle software on a Sun product? How strange...

Currently you have EXADATA v2 on Sun, but I'm sure we will see some more Oracle/Sun appliances.

[Duke]

Must admit those Exadata boxes do look nice. I wish they'd do a low-end version for SMB's to run their Exchange and SQL servers from!

Thanks for the vid, DTrace vs PerfMon is a reason alone to move from Windows to S7000 for storage...

[apaton]

Brendan Gregg has produced yet another excellent blog post, this time on iSCSI performance. After reading this I think we should all go out and buy 10Gbe !

iSCSI before and after : Brendan Gregg

[Soulfish]

Mmmmm 10Gbe. If only we could afford that

[Duke]

Mmmmm 10Gbe. If only we could afford that

+1 on that. Phil Lawrence was on the phone earlier teasing me about not having the new 6-core 7410.

He's coming down to see us at the end of February, anyone got any (non-NDA-applicable) questions they want me to ask?

Cheers,
Chris