Tag: Solaris
The state of enterprise storage for the Little Guy
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 …
OpenSolaris gets more storage capabilities
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 …
Sun + Intel = A Decent Move
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 …
Solaris 10’s new multipath storage tool (Part 1)
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 …
About that whole Solaris vs. Linux thing
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 …
Sun StorageTek 6140: Buyer beware
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 …
Sun Solaris 10 11/06 (aka Update 3) is out
Sun released the third maintenance update for Solaris 10 yesterday. The What’s New documentation covers all the features it adds to Solaris 10. There’s so much Good Stuff in this update that’s it really should be called “Solaris 10.5”. The ones most exciting and immediately useful to me: Storage Networking Read More …
Google looking at OpenSolaris? (and an article cameo by yours truly)
An article over at Computer World reveals a rumor that Google might be investigating OpenSolaris as its future primary platform. The article goes on to describe the OpenSolaris community as it stands today, just over a year after its release. I’m quoted at the top of page 3.
Sun’s new storage arrays – O.K. but not great.
I read over the specs of Sun’s new mid-range storage models, the StorageTek 6140 and 6540, which were announced yesterday (8/11/2006) and the corners of my mouth must have visibly sank after scanning through the specs and not seeing the one big feature I was hoping to see in any Read More …
New low-end Sun x64 servers soon?
A recent update to Sun’s entry-level server warranty matrix lists two new mystery servers – The X2100 M2 and the X2200 M2. I’ll speculate here… I bet that the X2100 M2 is an updated X2100 with iLOM rather than the underwhelming SMDC option card. I can’t think of what the Read More …