Archive for the ‘Sun’ Category
How to live with disabled disks
Recently, I was working with a customer’s Sun StorEdgeTek 2540 array which mysteriously had all twelve disks in disabled state. Details Name: t85d01 ID: Tray.85.Drive.1 Array: Array Type: 2540 Tray: 85 Slot Number: 1 Role: Unassigned Virtual Disk: – State: Disabled Status: Optimal Capacity: 279.396 GB Type: SAS Speed (RPM): 15000 RPM Firmware: SA04 Serial […]
Opening keynote of Oracle OpenWorld 2009
I suggest everyone to follow this link to plunge into atmosphere of Oracle’s keynote event kindly presented by Ben Rockwood. Besides that, you’ll receive quite a few of information about Oracle’s take on Sun’s acquisition.
Oracle’s Exadata innuendo
During todays conference organized by Brocade and called “Brocade Extraordinary Networks 2009”, I couldn’t leave unnoticed a presentation made by Sun Microsystem’s Senior Systems Architect in CIS region Vitaly Soloviev about recently announced Exadata V2. Though I learnt nothing new, there was one thing that drew my attention so now I couldn’t get it out […]
Sun’s SPARC CPU Roadmap
Saw it a couple of days ago but recently this “confidential” information has leaked into public. Now it’s clear that so much anticipated and hyped Rock CPU is out of the game.
Oracle and Sun Live Event
Found an intriguing invitation from Oracle in my inbox which says: You are invited to attend this exclusive live Webcast in which Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will unveil an innovative new product, the world’s first OLTP database machine with Sun FlashFire technology. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn firsthand how the partnership between Oracle and […]
SPARC/Solaris is still afloat
Just as many other out there today I received a very promising poster from Oracle that stately confirms all our expectations and proves that SPARC and Solaris don’t droop.
Is 6320 array ready disabled?
If you like me have to deal with Sun StorEdge 6320 array, I bet that at least once in your life you’ve seen it reporting that some of its disk are in “ready disabled” state. When I saw it for the very fist time I scratched my head extensively and the only remedy reported on […]
RLE and SL500
As I predicted in my previous post, you could never be 100% sure about this library, and unfortunately I was right. This time I had a weird issue when two of four tape drives (0,2,2,9 and 0,2,3,9) in the DEM were reported as inoperable whilst the other two were fine. But when I swapped the […]
Kernel Conference Australia
Kernel Conference Australia is kicking off today. This is a three days event which, as appears from the subject, is dedicated to different intricacies of internals of Operating Systems, i.e. Solaris/OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux. And if you’re upset of being unable to participate then here is a live stream so you could enjoy the conference […]
Things to keep in mind when replacing a PS on SF6800/6900
What could be easier than swapping a power supply?! True, very true but not when you’re dealing with SF6800/6900. The problem rises from the fact that it’s quite tough to insert a PSU into its bay because of a tight fitting. And there is a chance to make a pause during the insertion that could […]