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OpenStorage Recipe: ZFS + Bunch of Disks (+ Flash Memory) = 1$/GB
The second round (my count) of OpenStorage announcements are out. This includes the next rev of Thumper, as well as a new storage family - Sun Storage J4000.
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The successor to Thumper is SunFire x4500, faster and bigger than before but still the same storage/server hybrid. The new storage family combines a Bunch of Disks (BoD) - SATA/SAS - and OpenSolaris/ZFS (and later Flash Memory), to deliver up to 72Gb/sec throughput and up to 192 SATA disks on 16RU at around 1$ per GB. |
Additional reading:
• Sun.Com
Feature Article and the
J4000
Family Overview
• Home pages for the
J4000 Family
and the
Big,
Medium
and
Small
brothers
• Blogs: Overviews by George and
Taylor
Innovating@Sun,
Satish on
MySQL and SugarCRM
• Richard's entry is worth its own bullet;
check it out!
• News:
Computer World,
InfoWorld,
Blocks and Files,
The Register
• Press Release,
SDN Announcement
• OpenStorage and
OpenSolaris Storage Community
First days at Sun, Honeycomb opensourced
So now that MySQL is part of Sun, I can be real Sun technologies fanboy :)
So besides all the ‘it is done’ news, I noticed on Sun’s site that they’ve (oh, we’ve) opensourced Honeycomb. Thats the technology I’ve been drooling about quite a few years ago, and would’ve always wanted to see open. Now it is.
Honeycomb (aka StorageTek 5800) is distributed content-addressable object storage system (CAS), that allows putting in objects, and their metadata, have it indexed, and represent virtual directories based on that metadata. Accessible via WebDAV, API, CLI, etc… Previous solutions used to be expensive, now put it on top on Thumpers, and it is easy to manage storage archive. Now all I need is to find if it really is suitable for our needs, and start playing more with it.
Oh, and MySQL storage engine access to it would be quite cool too, it would mean Brian’s archiving engine is history :)