Archive for the ‘Solaris’ Category
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Many of the virtualization customers I speak with have been asking about what database can be virtualized, so I typically present a green, yellow and red set of criteria to help guide the process. We typically look at I/O rates, SMP width and capacity of the source physical system as ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
In a stark contrast to recent past when Solaris Internals was hosted on physical machines, we've just experienced one of the core values of virtualization -- encapsulated, portable state allowing geographic mobility. Solaris Internals has over the last two weeks been teleported out of my datacenter (As Jim notes, the ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Hats off to Eric Kustarz, who has just integrated FileBench into OpenSolaris.
FileBench is a flexible, configurable workload-driven benchmark for file systems -- it more accurately measures the performance of a real application. It uses a modeling language to emulate the application's footprint. For example, if a workload is attribute intensive ...
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