Resources for Running non-Sun Software on Sun Hardware

last updated on 2009-09-23

This section provides resources for running the following non-Sun software on Sun storage products and Sun servers:

• Oracle Software on Sun Hardware
• Microsoft Software on Sun Hardware
• Zmanda Software on Sun Hardware
• Symantec Software on Sun Hardware
• Other Software on Sun Hardware

Oracle Software on Sun Hardware

Here are resources for running Oracle software on Sun storage products and servers:

Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

• Configuring Sun Storage 7000 Systems for Oracle Databases
• Deploying Oracle Siebel CRM on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
• Consolidating Oracle Siebel CRM 8 on a Single Sun SPARC Enterprise Server

BigAdmin articles:

• Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Deploying Oracle ASM Using iSCSI on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Backup and Recovery for Oracle Databases With Snapshot Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Disaster Recovery Solution for Oracle Databases Using Remote Replication Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Also see Sun Open Storage - Technical Resources.

Microsoft Software on Sun Hardware

Here are some resources for running various types of Microsoft software on Sun storage products and servers:

• New Microsoft Windows Integration on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System. This implementation guide is about using Sun Open Storage systems in a Microsoft Windows environment. Topics include creating and sharing file systems in both domain and workgroup mode, joining a domain, mounting CIFS shares, and managing object rights.

• MySQL 5.1 Database Deployment Over CIFS Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System. The scenario in this BigAdmin article uses MySQL 5.1 database on a Sun server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, with a volume of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System mounted using CIFS as a repository for database files.

  Also see the Other Interoperability Resources section of this web site for more CIFS resources.

• Configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Sun Fire x64 Servers. This Sun BluePrints guide (registration required) shows the steps for installing and configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on a Sun Fire x64 server with a Sun Storage J4000 series array for external storage.

• Installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on Sun Fire X4500 Server. This article on BigAdmin describes how to set up Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on a Sun Fire X4500 Server and the steps that are necessary to obtain usable file systems.

Also see these BigAdmin articles about using Sun storage systems with Microsoft Exchange:

• Sun Fire X4150 Server 1RU Storage Solution for 1000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Sun Storage J4000 Arrays as 3000-Mailbox Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 With LCR
• Sun Storage J4400 Arrays as 6000-Mailbox Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 With CCR
• Sun StorageTek 2530 Array Storage Solution for 4000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Sun StorageTek 6140 Array Storage Solution for 6000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance Storage Solution for 3000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance Storage Solution for 1200 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Sun StorageTek 6540 Array Storage Solution for 20,000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007

Zmanda Software on Sun Hardware

Here are BigAdmin articles about using various Zmanda software with Sun storage systems and servers:

• Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software
• Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software
• Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL Database
• Using Sun Fire X4540 Server With Zmanda Recovery Manager 2.2 for MySQL Database
• Using ZFS Snapshots With Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS
• Using Amanda Enterprise 3.0 on Sun Fire X4500 Server With OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS

Symantec Software on Sun Hardware

The following BigAdmin articles describe using various Symantec software with Sun storage systems and servers:

• Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Symantec Veritas NetBackup
• Sun Fire X4500 as a Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5
• Symantec Enterprise Vault Integration With the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance
• Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as Storage Target for Symantec Enterprise Vault
• Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault

Also see these Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

• Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup, which describes the Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software

• Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology, which provides background on Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam (SBAS) software and CoolThreads technology-powered servers, the configurations used for performance measurements, the challenges presented by benchmarking anti-spam software, and the steps used to tune the hardware/software combination to achieve performance levels

Other Software on Sun Hardware

Here are more interoperability articles on BigAdmin:

• Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Sizing Study for Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite on Sun Platforms
• Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With VMware ESX Server
• Virus Scanning on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite
• Case Study: Phone Call Surveillance With CopperEye Greenwich on Sun Fire X4540 Server
• Sun Fire X4500 Server as a Magnetic Library for CommVault Simpana Software

And here are links to additional Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

• Deploying Apache HTTP Web Server on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

• Deploying DB2 Database on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (for IBM DB2 Database)

• Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran, which provides performance tuning guidelines for configuring MSC.Software's HPC application (MD Nastran) and Sun hardware platform for optimum performance (reduced elapsed times)

• Accelerating IBM HTTP Server Cryptographic Operations Using Sun Servers with CoolThreads Technology

• Sun's Reference Architecture for Video Surveillance with ipConfigure ESM, which describes a powerful and scalable solution for deploying digital video surveillance rapidly using Sun's x64 servers and ipConfigure's Enterprise Surveillance Manager