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In the face of rapidly escalating energy costs and the fact that datacenters are contributing to global greenhouse gas emissions at a similar rate as the airlines, organizations are realizing that increased datacenter efficiency can simultaneously reduce costs and increase business agility. This white paper discusses Sun’s two-step approach to datacenter efficiency—optimizing power and restructuring datacenter space. Length: 20 pages » |
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One of the big trends, especially in larger High-Performance Computing installations, is the use of blade servers. This opinion paper by Gordon Haff of Illuminata reviews the latest iteration of the Sun Constellation System—based on Sun’s blade server product line—and covers today’s leading blades, Sun’s new X6270 and X6275 blades, cooling systems, InfiniBand, and latency considerations. Length: 7 pages » |
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The Sun Fire™ X4540 Storage Server implements a unique hybrid architecture that maximizes throughput and lowers costs. This white paper discusses the architecture of these servers, including detailed descriptions of the processor technology, I/O subsystem, and embedded service processor components. In addition, data management and system management tools that add value to the operation of these servers are highlighted. Length: 40 pages » |
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Today’s IT leaders are driven to build more with less—but the industry has provided tools that are prohibitively expensive, or too difficult to acquire/use/support. This white paper overviews the Sun GlassFish™ Portfolio, a complete, open Web application platform that provides businesses with innovations from leading open-source communities, packaged in a solution that offers flexible subscription-based pricing, and enterprise-class support. Length: 16 pages » |
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IT organizations are seeking advanced networking technology with lower TCO, better resource management, and increasing throughput. This white paper overviews the OpenSolaris Project Crossbow for Network Virtualization and Resource control, which brings virtualization to OpenSolaris networking, and also includes resource management capabilities around the creation and maintenance of virtual network interfaces. Length: 11 pages » |
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Managing desktop environments across the enterprise can be quite challenging for many organizations. Virtualization of desktop systems is an increasingly popular solution, but requires scalability, balanced system design, and sufficient power and performance for successful implementation. This white paper discusses the use of Sun Fire™ X4600 M2 servers as a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. Length: 16 pages » |
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The Sun Fire X2270 is Sun's newest addition to its x64 server family powered by the Intel Xeon processor, and runs Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware. This facts document discusses the X2270 in detail—enabling technology, system architecture, RAS, operating system, installation data, system requirements/configuration/management, ordering information, services, and also includes a helpful glossary. Length: 58 pages » |
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Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) is a clustered database infrastructure, which offers highly scalable architecture and allows accessing database files from a shared storage. This guide shows Oracle DBAs and System Administrators how to configure Sun’s 7000 Series Unified Storage System and the Solaris hosts for the Oracle RAC infrastructure deployment. Length: 29 pages » |
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Near exponential data growth is changing the rules for organizations everywhere at a time when most of today's storage solutions remain proprietary, complex, and expensive. This white paper discusses the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System, the world's first open storage appliances, which offer a radically simple way to use storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Length: 40 pages » |
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Enterprises are constantly looking for advanced technology that can help enhance throughput, increase efficiency, and maximize operational stability. This white paper conveys how utilizing Sun Logical Domains in conjunction with the OpenSolaris Operating System can help organizations gain unique performance, uptime, and operational benefits that can translate into a business advantage. Length: 13 pages » |
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Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Server Architecture
Datacenter complexity, energy, and cost issues continue to plague businesses and their ability to operate effectively within tight budget constraints. This white paper discusses the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 servers, which combine the power of Intel Xeon processors and offer the needed performance, density, and expandability to satisfy demanding datacenter applications, especially for virtualization and consolidation initiatives. Length: 52 pages |
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A major shift in focus now has life science researchers thinking less about samples and experiments and more about data analysis and sharing. This paper is an overview and use case for the research and bio-repository archive. Length 7 pages » |
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VMware ESX is a widely deployed hypervisor, delivering the highest levels of reliability and performance to applications. This quick start guide gives Administrators an overview on how to quickly set up a Sun Storage 7000 to use with VMware ESX. Both NFS (NAS) and iSCSi protocols are addressed. The guide assumes administrators are familiar with both Sun Storage 7000 concepts as well as VMware ESX concepts. Length: 26 pages » |
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Accelerating Performance and Reducing Costs for Data-Intensive HPC Workflows
IT organizations are challenged in delivering necessary I/O throughput for High-Performance Computing applications. This white paper overviews Sun technologies that address HPC challenges, in the firm of Flash technology, network-attached storage, parallel storage, and archive solutions. The paper also addresses why open storage solutions are important for HPC, and how Sun is utilizing open-storage technologies. Length: 23 pages
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