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Parceria…

Marcelo Leal, arquiteto da Locaweb, empresa especializada em web hosting e serviços de cloud computing, comenta a atuação da Itautec, que forneceu uma solução customizada de servidores para a companhia. Esta solução permitiu à empresa dobrar a densidade de armazenamento em seu datacenter, com custos competitivos. É mais uma demonstração ...
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ZFS Internals (part #11)

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND HERE MAY BE INACCURATE, AND COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES, TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND EVEN SPELLING ERRORS. From the MANUAL page: The zdb command is used by support engineers to diagnose failures and gather statistics. Since the ZFS file ...
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I talk too much…

Ok, that was funny... well, not really, because i did loose a lot of time on it. I have no experience with ASM (Automatic Storage Management) by Oracle, and while a system administrator, i did manage the oracle volumes as filesystems. The raw devices on that time had the 'performance' ...
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Solaris 11

Hello there... As many of you already know, a new version of Solaris Operating System is available: Solaris 11 Express. Seems like the Solaris 11 will be released next year, but i really don't know if that is the case neither the diff between Solaris 11 Express and Solaris 11. From what ...
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Disksort vs Max_Pending

DO NOT TRY IT IN PRODUCTION. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Good news... here you can get a little script to enable, disable, and check the disksort flag on your disks (not persistent after reboot, take a look on my other post to a link for how to do it). Take ...
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Elevator Algorithm II

DO NOT TRY IT IN PRODUCTION. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! In my last post i did write about some issues related with disksort: 1) Performance (Latency) 2) Consistency In my D Script i'm printing the buf sector when the sd driver receives it. So, without sorting. That's important because i'm ...
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ZFS Internals (part #10)

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND HERE MAY BE INACCURATE, AND COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES, TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND EVEN SPELLING ERRORS. From the MANUAL page: The zdb command is used by support engineers to diagnose failures and gather statistics. Since the ZFS file ...
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