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Duke

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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

apaton

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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/articles/joomla_storage7000.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

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apaton

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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. :mad:

 

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

 

Andy

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Duke

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

 

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

 

Completely understandable and I think we all appreciate it! ;)

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apaton

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Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3)

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/7000_oracle_deploy_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

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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/articles/7000_oracle_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

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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...

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Duke

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Mmmmm 10Gbe. If only we could afford that :D

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

Well I want to know when the Deduplication features are actually getting released. I suspect it's soon since it was included as a feature in the email about the next round of S7000 Discovery days I got from Sun on Monday :p

 

The actual phrasing was "Learn how to deploy in-built data services, such as data deduplication, copy-on-write snapshots, cloning and data replication."

 

I suspect it's still covered by NDA though :). Will be interesting to see what happens over the next few months now Oracle has finished the Sun purchase.

apaton

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

 

I watched the Oracle Sun event yesterday, Larry Ellison said the product will be renamed ZFS Storage Appliance. Wondering if thats true ?

Duke

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Well I want to know when the Deduplication features are actually getting released. I suspect it's soon since it was included as a feature in the email about the next round of S7000 Discovery days I got from Sun on Monday :p

 

I reckon we should see the beginnings of it in the first 2010 release. I'll see if I can find anything definite out though.

 

apaton - Urgh, I preferred the words 'Open' and 'Unified' in my storage solution. ZFS is great, but it's not a product name. :rolleyes:

 

Chris

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I watched the Oracle Sun event yesterday, Larry Ellison said the product will be renamed ZFS Storage Appliance. Wondering if thats true ?

Hmmm just hasn't got the same ring as Open Storage has it :( People won't want to come and see my ZFS Storage System they like my Open Storage System

apaton

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Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/sharepoint_7000.pdf

 

Contents

 

 

  • 1 Objective
  • 2 Introduction
  • 3 Configuring Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
    • 3.1 Network
    • 3.2 Storage Pool
    • 3.3 Projects and Shares
    • 3.4 Editing LUN Security Properties
    • 3.5 Analytics

     

    [*]4 Installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

    • 4.1 Preparing the Infrastructure
    • 4.2 Installation

     

    [*]5 Advanced Data Services

    • 5.1 Snapshots
    • 5.2 Cloning a Snapshot
    • 5.3 Replication
    • 5.4 Accessing Replicated Data

     

    [*]6 Product Information: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

    [*]7 Product Information: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

    [*]Appendix A: Using iSCSI Versus CIFS

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Duke

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Here's what I wanted to know:

 

To actually have existing data become part of the dedup table one can run a variant of "zfs send | zfs recv" on the datasets.

 

Post-processing dedupe of existing data would be a big deal for me. I've got years worth of shared resources already on the SAN so being able to dedupe them easily would be important. I'd love to see a workflow or something similar to easily accomplish this. :)

 

Chris

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DMcCoy

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The most important question is when is it going to be on offer again! :D

 

As it is, i'd probably be better off buying an Equallogic :(

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