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- The advantages of the ZFS
- If you deal with storage, databases or just large amount of files, perhaps you might like to share your thoughts about how the features of ZFS could certainly benefit you in your workplace, assuming it can be implemented in the OS of your choice.
- Tags: Storage, paulmah@..., ZFS
- Discussion threads 2007-06-17
- The advantages of Sun's ZFS filesystem
- Recent weeks have seen some waves created in the normal placid waters of filesystems by the inadvertent announcement of the inclusion of the ZFS into OS X by Sun's CEO, denial by Apple, then finally cautious confirmation that the ZFS will indeed be included in the latest release of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., File System, ZFS, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-17
- Apple shifting to Solaris file system
- Sun Microsystems president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at a company event, said that Sun's ZFS file system will be "the" file system for Apple's upcoming Leopard version of Mac OS X. This has stirred up some debate over whether he misspoke about whether ZFS will be...
- Tags: File System, Apple Inc., Sun Solaris, ZFS, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- ZFS Best Practices With NetApp: Guidelines for Configuring the ZFS File System With Network Appliance Storage Arrays
- This paper contains best practices and guidelines for configuring the new ZFS file system with Network Appliance storage systems. The Solaris ZFS file system is a new file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered, with new features and benefits. ZFS has been designed to be robust,...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., File System, Best Practice, NetApp, Solaris ZFS File System, ZFS, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Automount filesystems with flexible AutoFS tool
- AutoFS ???An article on automount 2007? Seems as something that was finished and finalized in the 1990s. Looks like Linux has some catch up to do against the creators of NFS as usual one can add.I would like to see an article in how to use ZFS and NFS in...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, tool, thommym@..., AutoFS, Network File System, file system
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
Additional Resources
- ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability)
- Sun's recent addition to the Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System, ZFS, is an innovative ground-up redesign of the traditional UNIX file system. Even though it's still early in its life cycle, ZFS has made such an impact that other UNIX vendors and open source enthusiasts have already intimated their plans...
- Tags: Security, Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Scalability, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Solaris ZFS and Microsoft Server 2003 NTFS: File System Performance
- The Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System OS introduces a new data management technology - the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and simplified...
- Tags: NTFS, Performance, File System, Microsoft Corp., Sun Solaris, Data Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Solaris ZFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ext3: File System Performance
- The Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System OS introduces a major new data management technology - the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, Red Hat Inc., File System, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 2: Ease of Administration and Future Enhancements)
- ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability), the first paper in this two-part series, presented a basic overview of Sun's ground-breaking new file system and talked about its data integrity and security model as well as its massive scalability. This paper focuses on the ease...
- Tags: Security, Sun Microsystems Inc., Administration, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS: A Performance Study Based on Commercial Workloads
- This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers. Pure performance numbers are interesting, but what is often ignored is how much CPU time,...
- Tags: Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Number, Performance Management, Storage, Sun Solaris, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-08-02
- Apple shifting to Solaris file system
- As it stands, Apple has always excelled into morphing technical features into nifty and very usable features. Would anyone take a stab at what kind of innovation could be up the horizon with the ZFS as the default file system.
- Tags: paulmah@..., file system, Apple Inc., Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2007-06-08
- Installing ZENworks for Servers on your network
- In this Daily Drill Down, Paul Ferrill explains how to install ZENworks for Servers—the Novell product that can help you configure and manage servers from a central location.ZENworks represents Novell’s vision for managing every aspect of your network. The complete line of products includes ZENworks for Desktops, Networks, and Servers....
- Tags: Servers, Directory services, NETWORKING, Paul Ferrill, ZENworks for Servers, server, Novell Inc., network, Novell ZENworks
- Technical articles 2000-09-07
- OpenSolaris gets CIFS
- OpenSolaris, the open-source varient of Sun's Solaris, is getting an in-kernel CIFS Common Internet File System service. This will allow Microsoft users to store and retrieve files from an OpenSolaris system. The in-kernel implementation of CIFS in Solaris will result in it gaining tight integration with...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Common Internet File System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Sun Microsystems gets into virtualization with xVM
- Sun Microsystems unveiled its xVM virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor with support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris OSs. An excerpt from ZDNet: During a press conference following his Oracle OpenWorld keynote, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz outlined what he considered to be the advantages of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Sun Solaris, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Sun releases Solaris 10 for free
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris 10
- Technical articles 2005-02-02
- Additional thoughts on long-term digital storage
- After my post on the myth of perpetual digital storage, I received a few e-mail messages from TechRepublic members who specialize in the field of data management or digital archival. There are a few key areas that stand out, on which I will elaborate today. Populate...
- Tags: Disk, Media, Idea, Server, Brant Bady, MD5, BOS, Storage, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- When is choice overwhelming?
- There were two pieces from my colleagues over at ZDNet this week that really caught my attention (OK, I cheated… George Ou sent me a link to one of them). The first article deals with the demographics of the “typical” openSUSE desktop Linux user. The second article discusses a number...
- Tags: Software Design
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Who Looks at Firewall Logs?
- Who Look in Firewall LogsAfter 6 month at a quick analysis of a general MS office installation and Windows XP Pro SP2 of what ended up in SP2 firewall logs it became apparent that I could almost certainly bock the following Ports without causing any function change or pain to...
- Tags: audit, firewall, security, services, TCP, tcp ports, TCP/UDP, UDP, windows xp, zczc2311
- Discussion threads 2005-09-25
- Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic
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- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Solaris/x86
- Technical articles 2004-12-21
- Sun to release first OpenSolaris tidbit today
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- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Tom Goguen
- Technical articles 2005-01-25
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