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Month: January 2007

Sun Availability Suite blog

Posted on2007-01-302017-01-15Leave a comment

The maintainer(s) of Availability Suite (aka AVS) now have their own blog. I can’t wait to learn more about it!

CategoriesSolarisTagsavs, OpenSolaris, Solaris, storage, Sun

The state of enterprise storage for the Little Guy

Posted on2007-01-302017-01-153 Comments

Earlier this month I spewed some vitriol over an unpleasant discovery regarding the Sun StorageTek 6140 array and its underwhelming out-of-the-box feature set (which, three weeks later, remains an unresolved issue even after contacting and working with my VAR, Sun sales rep-proper, and two Sun SEs. Sigh) (NOTE: As of Read More …

CategoriesGeekeryTagsApple, engenio, IBM, LSI, Solaris, storage, Sun

OpenSolaris gets more storage capabilities

Posted on2007-01-272017-01-15Leave a comment

The OpenSolaris community got a huge present today by way of Sun’s open sourcing of its StorageTek Availability Suite. This announcement by Jim Dunham goes into the details, but here’s a summary: Availability Suite is comprised of two primary components: Instant Image, which siphons data on a disk device as Read More …

CategoriesSolarisTagsOpenSolaris, Solaris, storage, Sun

Sun + Intel = A Decent Move

Posted on2007-01-222017-01-15Leave a comment

Sun and Intel announced a new partnership between the two companies today, with both CEOs presenting at a news conference this morning. Sun hasn’t had a Intel CPU in its product line since Sun discontinued its Pentium 4-based V60z server several years ago when the company was teething its new Read More …

CategoriesGeekery, SolarisTagsAMD, intel, Solaris, Sun

Video of my sitar teacher, Alif Laila

Posted on2007-01-212017-01-15Leave a comment

This is a video I made (I did the editing, someone else did the recording) of Alif Laila performing Raag Zilla Kaafi. Enjoy, and check out her CDs on her website! The video is H.264 format and is 3MB in size. It plays fine in QuickTime. Watch the video

CategoriesCulture, MusicTagsindia, music, sitar, tabla

Solaris 10’s new multipath storage tool (Part 1)

Posted on2007-01-212017-01-151 Comment

Solaris 10 11/06 was released in late 2006 with a plethora of new features, and among them a new tool called mpathadm, which comes as part of the SUNWmpathadm package. Before I delve into how this specific tool works and how it helps when managing multipathed storage in Solaris, I’ll Read More …

CategoriesMultipath, SolarisTagsOpenSolaris, Solaris, storage

About that whole Solaris vs. Linux thing

Posted on2007-01-202017-01-151 Comment

This month there has a been a noticeable increase in buzz from IT pundits discussing whether Solaris now has the feature set critical mass required to win over exising Linux users and shops. On one hand, I think it’s tres cool that Solaris is and has been getting lots of Read More …

CategoriesSolarisTagslinux, OpenSolaris, software, Solaris

Psychedelic Saturn

Posted on2007-01-202017-01-15Leave a comment

Another post card from the Cassini probe from a far-off corner of our solar system. There’s always beauty in the blackness, I tell you. This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral filters sensitive to Read More …

CategoriesAstronomyTagscassini, exploration, saturn

Sun StorageTek 6140: Buyer beware

Posted on2007-01-042017-01-153 Comments

My thoughts on the Sun StorageTek 6140 array (and this applies to other Engenio OEM’d storage arrays of the same type, such as the IBM DS4200 and DS4700)

It’s a long rant. Be prepared. Read More …

CategoriesGeekery, SolarisTagsSolaris, storage, Sun

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