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The Secret Behind MediaTemple’s Grid-Server

There has been a lot of buzz around (mt) MediaTemple's latest offering this week: (gs) Grid Server. I listened to a podCast at TechCrunch and was really sucked into the marketing speak about the offering. But as a SysAdmin I wanted to know how it worked. The key to the product is that you setup your enviroment once and its "automatically deployed on the grid", ...

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Anandtech & Enterprise Storage

I haven't checked Anandtech in months, but felt the desire tonight. Frankly, its the best hardware review site it is, and Anand Lal Shimpi's book The AnandTech Guide to PC Gaming Hardware is quite simply the best book ever written about X86 hardware, bar none, suffering only because its title massively misrepresents the bredth of content. Reguardless, I was ...

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Pillar Data Desperate for News?

I couldn't help coming across the following article found pronounced on Pillar Data's front page: NetApp Unseated at NASA Unit. The article is from August but Pillar is still proud of it. I'll save you the hassle of reading it... basically: NASA's Solar Data Analysis Center bought a NetApp F840 in 2002. That was about toward the end of the F840's life, so ...

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Blackbox is Real

After I learned of Project Blackbox I got excited... real excited. Anyone who has been around Sun in the Bay Area will recognize in the video the building behind it: the Executive Briefing Center on the Menlo Park Campus. I live across the bridge so I kicked my Volvo S70 T5's turbo into action and flew across the bridge. And I found what I sought.... It ...

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Sun BlackBox

Holy crap! I mean... what else is there to say? Holy crap!

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Joyent & Sun: The Movie

Hi... remember me? I used to blog and stuff. But like, now, I have to actually work for a living. It was nice at Homestead, my former place of employment, because I'd been there long enough to have automated and built almost everything. I did like maybe 3 hours of real work a day. It was sweet, and I blogged a lot. But, now I'm a new guy with lots of stuff to ...

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Thump Thump

[thumper3:/splash] root# time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k & [thumper3:/splash] root# zpool iostat 1 capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- splash 11.2G 20.0T 96 289 11.3M 34.6M splash 11.2G 20.0T 0 4.15K ...

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Solaris 10 Update 3: No iSCSI Target For You!

In a strange turn of events, I logged into the Sun Beta site to start downloading the S10U3 Beta DVD ISO to my Joyent Jumpstart server so that I could load it onto my test Thumper and I see this message: The inclusion of iSCSI Target Disk Support in the [thingy] was an error. This feature is not in S10 11/06 Beta and will not be in S10 11/06 RR. This ...

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ZFS within a Zone: Using Datasets

Around B43 Solaris Zones were given a new configuration attribute: dataset. This allows us to provide ZFS within a zone itself. Before I continue, I think we should talk about ZFS terminology for a second. When I first started out with ZFS I found this idea of nested filesystems a bit odd. I remember watching the flash demo's created by Dan Price and ...

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Solaris 10 Update 3 Beta Opens

The Solaris 10 Update 3 beta is opening up this week. Notices for the program went out last week and applications are being reviewed now. By the end of the week it is expected that people will start installing and testing it. The current release is labeled "Solaris 10 (11/06)" so we're hoping for a November release. There was a lot of work poured into B49 of ...

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