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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.

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

How to replicate a thumper to a remote location using avs and zfs

zfs and postgres perfomance

Update: Thumper light - clustering USB sticks with Solaris 10 and ZFS on a laptop

thumper graphs

textdrives strongspace service is now backed by x4500 storage

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to have your storage run the same operating system as your “normal” servers. So much so that I have to share it with you all after doing some more tooling around on one.

Dave Fisk and I spent some time evaluating Thumper and ZFS as part of the beta program.