Project Crossbow is an innovate, and I think important, new contribution to the OpenSolaris project. Crossbow makes network virtualization and resource management first-class citizens in OpenSolaris. If follows in the footsteps of ZFS by having a simple and easy-to-understand interface, while providing great flexibility and power to the administrator. My February column for ;login: Magazine describes and explores Project Crossbow in detail.
Posts under ‘Sun’
New column posted – Appropriate uses for Sun’s T-Servers
Sun T-servers (also known as “CMT” or “coolthreads” servers) are low-cost and high capacity. But they are not a perfect fit for all workloads. My latest column goes through the details and how to determine if the T-servers are a good choice for a given application workload.
Sun 7000 FAQ published at CTIStrategy
Sun 7000 FAQ published at ctistrategy.com
Sixth NEOSUG meeting rescheduled
We’ve rescheduled the sixth NEOSUG meeting for March 11. Dave Miner will talk about the state of OpenSolaris and demo some new functionality, and I’ll talk about what’s new in the Solaris 10 update 6 (11/08) release. Hope to see you there. For full details and registration info have look at the NEOSUG discussion forum.
The OpenSolaris Bible Published
Very happy to see the fruits of the labor of Nicholas Solter, Gerald Jelinek, and David Miner – The OpenSolaris Bible. Just received my copies (I was Technical Editor) of the book, and it is the best way to learn OpenSolaris. It focuses on the user experience, but also has lots of good how-to detail [...]
Eulogy for a benchmark : The Observation Deck
Bryan Cantrill posted an important blog entry about the problems with benchmarking in general, NAS benchmarking more specifically, and the current industry standard SPEC SFS bencmark in detail. In summary, the current “standard” NAS performance benchmark is worse that useless or missleading, it encourages NAS vendors to engineer NAS solutions are overpriced and underperforming, just [...]
My latest column at ;login:
Sun 7000 Analytics column by Peter Baer Galvin in February 2009 ;login: magazine
Postponed – Sixth NEOSUG Meeting
Just a quick note that we’re postponing the 6th NEOSUG meeting due to inclement weather and low registrations. For more details see the NEOSUG forum at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88485&tstart=0
Column – The Death of Solaris
My latest column has been published in ;login:. I have attached it for your convenience. Dec 2008 ;login: column.
Column – Solaris System Analysis 102
My October 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about Solaris System Analysis – detailed steps to take to determine why a system is “slow” or “busted”. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login:, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here [...]