Storage White Papers

Analyst White Paper: Evaluator Group - Sun StorEdge 6920 Analysis [pdf only, 384kb]
Analyst White Paper: Evaluator Group - Sun StorEdge 6920 Analysis

An Information Lifecycle Management Maturity Model [pdf only, 109kb]
Information lifecycle management (ILM) has been widely hyped in the storage industry without a clearly understood vision or a defined approach to implementation. ILM's stated value is compelling, but clear steps toward implementation are required. Our proposed information lifecycle maturity model defines an achievable roadmap to the ILM vision.

Manage and Store Enterprise Content Smartly [pdf only, 272kb]
Manage and Store Enterprise Content Smartly White Paper

Data Replication Strategies by Data Management Architect, Jay Orcutt [pdf only, 529kb]
This paper outlines Sun's approaches to data replication to help customers decide how best to integrate various data replication methods into Business Continuity plans. The paper features considerations for implementation when deploying Sun StorEdge Data Replicator software for use with Sun StorEdge 6920 and 6130 systems and Sun StorEdge True-Copy software for use with Sun StorEdge 9000 Systems.

Sun Offers Java StorEdge Software Bundles - Storage and Information Management Brief [pdf only, 176kb]
Enterprise Strategy Group
Sun recently announced it would be following the successful JES bundling models in order to provide users an easier means to acquire, maintain and support storage and data management solutions. This new model will help users lower overall costs and ease many of the administrative burdens associated with managing storage environments.

ESG Analysis Sun StorageTek 6920 System [pdf only, 495kb]
This Enterprise Strategy Group brief by Tony Asaro provides view of the Sun StorageTek 6920 system as part of an increasingly impressive storage portfolio from Sun.

Sun StorEdge NAS IP Aliasing [pdf only, 194kb]
With IP Aliasing up to ten IP addresses can be assigned to each NIC port with the use of IP Aliasing. This document describes the support for IP aliasing provided by the Sun StorEdge NAS system.

Sun StorEdge NAS Directory Tree Quotas [pdf only, 215kb]
This white paper discusses the directory tree quota (DTQ) features available on Sun StorEdge Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. Directory tree quotas allow resource utilization to be controlled at the directory level; allowing limits to be set on the number of files or amount of disk space that a directory can utilize on a per-volume basis.

Storage System Bottlenecks and Their Solutions [pdf only, 500kb]
This paper discusses three typical poor storage performance scenarios found in today's IT industry.

Sun StorEdge NAS Oracle Benefits and Usage Guide [pdf only, 244kb]
This paper covers the simple procedures necessary to configure an Oracle database application to run with the Sun StorEdge NAS Appliance using the NFS protocol. It also details Sun-supported configurations of Oracle datafiles stored on Sun StorEdge NAS Appliance. This document also describes how to utilize the Sun StorEdge NAS checkpoint feature for an Oracle Database using the Sun StorEdge NAS Appliance as the storage system for databases and logs.