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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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I would like to understand…

Maybe if i could understand the Oracle's mind, i could learn how to make money. I think that is the key in this whole Oracle/Sun situation: Java, Dtrace 1, 2, 3, 4, and ZFS creators did leave the company. Why someone would buy a technology company, with so many ...
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Do you need L2ARC redundancy? I do…

Hello there... I think you agree that the storage's problem is the READ requests, synchronous by nature. And, as i said many times before, i think the solution for all problems (the answer for all questions ;-) is cache. Many levels, many flavors. I did read many times about the ...
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OpenSolaris events @SF 2009

That was an amazing experience, and was really great meet those people that i just talk by email. First was the OHAC Summit, where we had excellent presentations, and the keynote 'The Network is the Cluster' by Dr. David Cheriton (Stanford University), and the 'High Availability: Today and Tomorrow' discussion ...
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