SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20544 from section "xVM"

Launch Event, September 10th, 9AM PT, 12 Noon ET

Check out Sun's new approach to virtualization of the datacenter

SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20507 from section "xVM"

Holistic Approach Addresses Fragmented Landscape

In their position paper "Virtualization Solutions for Data Center and
Storage Efficiency" CIO2CIO identifies the two problems that concern
contemporary CIOs more than any other. They are the difficulty of
managing an increasing volume of data and the relative inefficiencies
of the storage systems they use to manage their complex and
fragmented storage infrastructure.

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SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20515 from section "xVM"

The next live web event will be held on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 9 AM PT

Sun xVM Ops Center offers dynamic work flow automation for discovery,
lights-out management, monitoring, patch management, change
management, configuration management, provisioning and application
deployment. It allows system administrators to manage thousands of
Solaris, Red Hat, and Suse systems from a web browser. Its
intelligent knowledge services and smart patching processes are
scalable and automated and provides a cost effective solution for
handling complex system administration tasks in the datacenter.

The next live web event will be held on Thursday, September 18th,
2008 at 9 AM PT.

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SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20559 from section "Top 10"

Volume 126 Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4

We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to
determine which the readers consider the most important. The top 10
articles for last week, Vol 126 Issue 4, were:

- Rock: A SPARC CMT Processor [20513]

- Fujitsu Readies Eight-core SPARC64 Chip ("Venus") [20502]

- Sun's GNU/Linux Offerings [20469]

- White Paper: MySQL Workbench: A Data Modeling Guide for
Developers and DBAs [20498]

- Sun Ray Connector for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager [20453]

- SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire X4600 M2 X86 [20481]

- Extremely Fast Pattern Matching on Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220/T5240 [20457]

- White Paper: MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Technical Overview
[20499]

- Eco Innovation in the Datacenter [20497]

SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20470 from section "Telco"

With Sun Fire CoolThreads Servers And Solaris 10 Ease Growing Pains for Tokyo Media Services Company

Managing growth cost effectively was something of a issue for C.A.
Mobile of Tokyo, which offers media services for mobile phones,
including e-commerce solutions, ringtones and games, and advertising
creation and placement. The large number of Intel-based servers
running Linux in the company's datacenter just were not the answer.

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SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20517 from section "SysAdmin's Section"

Helps install Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems on Sun x64 servers

Sun Installation Assistant (SIA) helps install supported Linux (Red
Hat and SUSE) and Microsoft Windows operating systems on Sun x64
servers. SIA also makes firmware updates automatic on some servers.
SIA makes OS installation easy. With SIA, all that is needed to begin
is a licensed copy of Linux or Windows OS distribution media
supported for a particular server. All Sun software and required
server-specific drivers are supplied by SIA. With a graphical wizard
interface and flexible installation options, SIA brings simplicity,
speed and reliability to server deployments.

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Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20372 from section "SysAdmin's Section"

version 1.2 (beta)

Perfbar is a visual tool that is very valuable when determining
bottle necks on SMP servers. It serves as an indicator for single
threaded applications. Such tools as mpstat are much more precise but
far from less intuitive. Removing this bottle neck of a single thread
which is CPU bound in an application is very important to exploit all
CPU resources of a SMP server.

Ralph Bogend

SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20495 from section "SysAdmin's Section"

8 Part Tutorial by Joerg Moellenkamp

CacheFS is a hidden feature deep inside of Solaris. It is considered
similar to a caching proxy, but it doesn't cache web pages, it caches
files from another filesystem. Joerg Moellenkamp has a series of
tutorials on hidden features of Solaris, and his latest edition is an
8 part walk through of CacheFS and how it works.

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Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20462 from section "Sun Tape"

Ideal Media for Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive

Fujifilm's NANOCUBIC Technology has enabled the company to produce
media for the Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive that is capable of
storing up to three TB of data using industry standard 3:1
compression, reports CNNMoney.com. This product can provide superior
levels of enterprise tape storage performance with 120 MB/sec native
transfer rate, the report continues.

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SYSTEM NEWS FOR SUN USERS
Vol 127 Issue 1 2008-09-01 Article 20524 from section "Storage"

A Tool for Tailormade Benchmarking Operations

FileBench has kindled the enthusiasm of Ben Rockwood, who writes on
how to "Explore Your Storage with FileBench," which he calls one of
the most powerful and flexible benchmarking tools around.

Unlike such micro-benchmarking tools as Bonnie++ or IOzone, he
writes, FileBench [19937] is an application simulator or workload
generator that results in benchmarking results that more nearly
approximate the results in an actual production setting.

For all of that, FileBench, which is still in development, is
somewhat non-intuitive, Rockwood maintains. His aim is to make using
the solution easier through example.

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