Comments on: DTrace enabled storage analytics

By: Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:36:07 +0000

If you want to have similar visibility, in a vendor-agnostic and datacenter-wide way, you should also check out CopperEgg. I’m also biased about that of course. Lots of open storage that need this level of visibility.

By: Adam Leventhal's blog » Triple-Parity RAID-Z

Adam Leventhal's blog » Triple-Parity RAID-Z — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:21:02 +0000

[...] RAID-Z comes in the wake of a number of our unique advancements to the state of the art such as DTrace-powered Analytics and the Hybrid Storage Pool as the Sun Storage 7000 series products meet and exceed the standards [...]

By: Evan Powell

Evan Powell — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:11:17 +0000

I’m extremely biased but most of our users tell us they don’t have time to use DTRACE. I personally love the Dtrace interface however we found the addition of search and block level replication to the unbelievably powerful ZFS foundation to be the winners — along with the hardware independent business model — when we launched. More recently we’ve seen that real integration into VMware and other virtualization is critical (hence our VM Data Center module) plus the couple of thousand fixes we’ve done on top of OpenSolaris.

By: H4mm3r

H4mm3r — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:56:31 +0000

Open storage is free but you don’t have Fishworks. So, it is where the added value is and not surprisingly, you pay for it.
The real kicker is how many ways you can reach your data (SAN, iSCSI, NAS…) and all the features. I hope good deduplication will come. The last thing that lacks Fishwork a priori is managing multiple appliances by global policies and AD connection.

By: c0t0d0s0.org

c0t0d0s0.org — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:35:55 +0000

Storagemojo about Fishworks…

Robin Harris of Storagemojo got an introduction to Fishworks by Adam Leventhal and wrote a nice article about it including a video of the introduction.Especially interesting is his conclusion:Real time analytics on mission-critical systems is a winner….

By: Dave McDorman

Dave McDorman — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:46:12 +0000

Robin,

It’s worth pointing out that the three principle coders of Dtrace are the principle drivers behind Fishworks/Appliances… Mike Shapiro, Brian Cantrell, Adam Leventhal (M+B+A).

For me the real Killer App of the Fishworks software atack are the embedded software services: Remote/IP-based/Replication, Remote Management (assuming access to port 215), CLI/Scripting Interfaces. All with *no license* fees…

DISCLOSURE: I’m working to sell these applicances as a Reseller of Sun’s products. With the MBA and talented Fishworks team they may shift the econmics of storage the way SPARC changed the datacenter of the 90′s and java changed software development.

How would we like to see a Fishworks IP-switch/Load Balancer Appliance with a Dtrace Analytic toolset?
We would like to go there.

It’s also a great opportunity for agile start-ups… Nexenta, Greenbytes, etc.

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:10:04 +0000

Anonymous – I’ll be posting about that.

I shot the video on a $150 HD cam the size of a paperback book. No mic on Adam but considering the sound is pretty good – just turn up the volume. Then edited on iMovie ’09 since I got it a month ago and had to try it out.

Robin

By: Adam Leventhal

Adam Leventhal — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:38:42 +0000

To provide a bit more context: the video narrated by my mumbling-self is a live view of a Sun Storage 7410 that we use as the office file server for the Fishworks group at Sun. The 7000 series is a line of unified storage products built on technologies like DTrace, ZFS and the Hybrid Storage Pool. From those, we’ve created a complete appliance that, as Fazal noted, should be quite competitive with products from the established players in that space.

By: Fazal Majid

Fazal Majid — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:06:19 +0000

Anonymous: they are making NAS/SAN appliances to eat Netapp’s lunch, as well as some of EMC’s midrange stuff, and offering analytics as a differentiator. Keep in mind that the UI is not open-sourced, only DTrace is. DTrace is very mature now (it’s been available since the first rev of Solaris 10, unlike ZFS), but the power also means a steep learning curve. The Fishworks analytics UI masks all that complexity and makes it usable for the average harried admin who can’t afford to spend a week learning DTrace’s D scripting language.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:18:08 +0000

Great. How is Sun planning to monetize this?