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Home Server: RAID-GREED and Why Mirroring is Still Best
After moving my blog to its new home and getting my hands dirty with Drupal, it's time to continue my series of blog articles about setting up a home server. Remember? We talked about home server...
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OpenSolaris ZFS Deduplication: Everything You Need to Know
Since November 1st, 2009, when ZFS Deduplication was integrated into OpenSolaris, a lot has happened: We learned how it worked, people got to play with it, used it in production and it became part of...
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Ten Ways To Easily Improve Oracle Solaris ZFS Filesystem Performance
This is a long article, but I hope you'll still find it interesting to read. Let me know if you want me to break down future long articles into multiple parts instead.One of the most frequently asked...
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A Closer Look at ZFS, Vdevs and Performance
When looking at the mails and comments I get about my ZFS optimization and my RAID-Greed posts, the same type of questions tend to pop up over and over again. Here's an example from a reader email:"I...
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Solaris ZFS, Synchronous Writes and the ZIL Explained
When talking to customers, partners and colleagues about Oracle Solaris ZFS performance, one topic almost always seems to pop up: Synchronous writes and the ZIL.In fact, most ZFS performance problems I...
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My Personal Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis Cheat Sheet
Over time, you tend to learn a Solaris performance trick or two. Or three. Or more. That's cool, it's how stuff works: You learn, you do, you remember.Performance analysis and tuning is just like that:...
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Firesheep killed HTTP. Long Live HTTPS With Free SSL Acceleration, Courtesy...
Before we continue our little Performance Analysis Series, let's look at some current news:The Bad News: HTTP is dead. Get over it. The killer? It's called Firesheep, a free Firefox extension that...
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My Favorite Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis Commands
A while ago, we discussed some performance analysis basics:Define what your problem is.Figure out your goal: What metric needs to be in what ballpark for you to declare victory?Analyze your system from...
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Frequently Asked Questions About Flash Memory (SSDs) and ZFS
A few weeks ago, a reader asked me a couple of questions about SSDs and ZFS, hinting that this might be a good topic to write a blog post about.Sure enough, just last week, a couple of similar...
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How to Avoid Your Next 12-Month Science Project
While most customers immediately understand how the magic of Oracle's Hybrid Columnar Compression, intelligent storage servers and flash memory make Exadata uniquely powerful against home-grown...
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