Hebdenlad
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Morning. If you guys are coming across bugs on a regular basis can you please feed them back to me as soon as you can? Once I know about them I can determine if they are actually bugs or if there is a solution that already exists. You can either PM or reply on here and I'll pick it up as soon as possible. If they are real showstoppers then log a support call and / or call me via the number I have on here. Cheers, Phil
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There were some early issues around cross-forest and AD. Update your appliance to the latest firmware version and this should be fixed. Cheers, Phil
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Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems - Amber Road Overview give me a call if you need to talk about this.... cheers, Phil
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No worries. Fully understand the issues at Primary School level as am chair of the GB at my local school. Have you checked out the X4xxx series of x86 Sun servers? Might be a good alternative to the "whitebox" server you're looking at... If you need any help then please let me know. Warmest regards, Phil
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Hi there. Hope you're well on this bright and sunny day (well it is on the train to London!). Have you looked at the S7000 from Sun? Go to Sun UK > View Sun's Home Page and have a look at it. Might surprise you as to how clever and capable it is. Quite a few people on here have gone down the S7000 route so you can ask them what they think of it. Any questions then please drop me a line or call on the number below. Warmest regards, Phil
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All, i have had conversations with some of you that are interested in the S7210 and how much usable capacity you would get based on the drive size (250GB, 500GB, 1TB). The good news is that I've done the donkey work and have a PDF that shows what you get. If anyone would like a copy then please message me on here and I'll forward it on. Regards, Phil
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give me qa call on Monday to talk through this. Phil
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Awww. Wasn't aware of this. Feed it back to Andy at Cutter and let him pick up the cudgel for you. Regards, Phil
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Enjoy [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmfjUVLk0AY&feature=related]YouTube - IT-Guy is back again: OpenStorage[/ame] Phil-
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Andy, Are you sure?? Matching Grant gives you the old BOGOF scenario - and remember that June is the end our financial year so talk to your friendly Sun reseller / account manager to see what can be done.... Cheers, Phil
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John, with the S7000 range you create a single zpool (read RAID set) based on your requirements of Availability, Capacity and Performance. you have the options in the GUI for various RAID levels and being honest you get the best from selecting RAIDZ DP (equals RAID 6) and that's it. all happens in a few mouse clicks and then you simply offer out shares (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI) to the users. If you talk to the guys on here that have bought the S7000 already then I'm fairly sure that they'll tell you how easy these boxes are to install, configure and use. If you need to talk more then give me a call. Enjoy the weekend. Phil :-)
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Here's a blog that is more detailed than Rics reply below (sorry Ric) Double-Parity RAID-Z : Adam Leventhal's Weblog Enjoy the weekend. Regards, Phil
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Have fun matey!! Give me a shout when you've got them up and running. are you coming to the DD next week? Regards, Phil
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Sun S7000 AND Infiniband??? mmmm now did I see that somewhere???
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Hi there. There are lots of things happening with the S7000 range. Regarding the software layer, everyone gets everything so no worries there. In terms of the hardware we are limited by physical capabilities of the hardware but there is a very strong roadmap for the S7000 - under NDA at the moment though. If any of you need to see the roadmap drop me a private message on here any I'll come and see you. Cheers, Phil
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hi there, thanks for the reply. We OEM the ST2500 from LSI and not Dothill (that was our old 3000 series stuff). We actually manufacture under licence the ST2500 and ST6000 arrays and if you look at the SPC (Storage Performance Council) stats we are faster than the IBM equivalent. In terms of where the S7000 is going then it's a very, very strong roadmap with lots of new features and capabilities appearing over the next 6-9 months (and even more after that). Whilst the S7000 is the fastest growing storage array we have ever had (20PB and growing every day) there is, and always will be, a need for highly performant FC connected storage arrays - otherwise everyone would go down the NAS route or offer a dual connectivity (NAS/SAN) and nothing else. When we engage with customers and partners we always ask the question about workload, application layer and environment to ensure that the customer invests in absolutely the right technology. So, our traditional arrays (ST2500, ST6000 and ST9900) are selling very well indeed and doing sterling work on a large number of customer sites. The S7000 does have a place in the market and will continue to grow but as mentioned above, will be deployed in the right environment to suit the technology. Sorry if this sounds long winded but wanted to make you all aware of what we can do as a tier 1 IT vendor. Regards, Phil PS don't forget we have tape and servers as well :-)
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Work stuff matey! am in our London office today and then on the south coast tomorrow seeing customers!!
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Looks like you've seen the link then.... :-) Be aware though that some of the ZFS and OpenSolaris features might not make it into the Fishworks / S7000 appliance stack. If you see something on the ZFS / OpenSolaris roadmap and want to know if it will make the cut then please contact me on here to get it from the horsese mouth as they say. Cheers, Phil :-)
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mmm... interesting... so do you think that as we use ZFS as our underlying FS and OpenSolaris as our OS that there's some sort of tenuoous link between them and the S7000??? Whatever next? Phil
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All, I've been asked the UPS question on here and have asked my colleagues about this. you have to remember that the S7000 is an appliance so adding software to it is a none starter. Having said that we have ILOM on the box Managing Sun Systems - Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)) so you can be notified (as we will via the phone home capability) on events that happen on the box. I have recevied a reply from one of my European colleagues that addresses this using the Workflow capability that is a key feature of the 2009.Q2 update. His words are below: "I would suggest you basically script from a host connected to the same ups a shutdown script that would SSH to the 7000 and execute the following command: ssh root@<7000name> << EOF confirm maintenance system poweroff EOF This would solve your problem. You would need to have prepared ssh keys first." Also from another of my colleagues the following: "Hi Phil Because the underlying FS is ZFS it can survive a power failure cleanly, any sync writes will be in the on disk logs (HDD, in the case of a 7110) and so can be recovered. Cheers Tim" I hope this helps answer some of the questions and address the concerns you have. Warmest regards, Phil
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If you look at the Sun storage portfolio then the S7000 adds another layer to our already broad range. We have the ST2500 series for the low end SAS/iSCSI/FC requirements; the ST6000 series for the midrange requirement (16 - 448 drives either FC or SATA with FC host connectivity) and then the ST9900 for the high-end, OLTP, large corporate environment. The S7000 as you know is Network attached at the moment but we have some really exciting things happening with it over the next 6-9 months in terms of connectivity, feature set and all the other good things we can build into it. With the "licence free" software stack and the x86 platform you get the best of latest performance capabilities combined with a 128bit filesystem and all the features you'll (hopefully) ever need it completes our portfolio If you want to know more then let me know on here and I'll be more than happy to share the roadmap (under NDA of course) with you. Look forward to seeing some / most of you at the S7000 Discovery Days on the 9th / 10th June. It's still not too late to register - or just turn up on the day and we'll fit you in! Just ask for me! Warmest regards, Phil
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FYI guys there is a TGI Friday next door if anyone wants to congregate after the Discovery Day. I'm sure i can stretch to a pint or two for those who'd like to imbibe
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Hi there. Thanks for the posting on here. you might want to watch this space over the next week or two... We have some announcements regarding "new" stuff that is coming out that will cover off the 4TB discussion. Are you going to the Discovery Day by the way?? Cheers, Phil
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Cheers for the reply on the thread. The Discovery Days should be interesting to say the least! I hope you're looking forward to an action packed morning for those of you attending! I always enjoy the group sing-song at then end of these sessions (lol!). All together now... "Hi ho...." Regards, Phil
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Rob, Many thanks for your time this afternoon and glad you liked what was under the proverbial kimono. Always enjoy meeting customers and going through how we're developing the S7000. Hope you can make the S7000 Discovery Day on the 9th June in London. Regards, Phil