Its been a long week… here’s a wrap up review.
Sunday was the first OpenSolaris Storage Summit. There were two keynote presentations, I did the morning keynote on the topic of Cloud Computing (what it is, how it relates to storage, etc) and the afternoon (moved to be after mine actually) was Mike Shapiro talking about ZFS Hybrid storage and the new era of Solid State Drives (SSD). Assorted other talks included updates on various projects, teasers for SDC discussions, and I even (being frustrated that there were no actual demos) did a 10 minute lightning session in which I demo’ed both arc_summary and Filebench.
In the evening there was an excellent reception during which a great many discussions unfolded and fun was had. I think it was a spectacular event and I hope there will be many more in the future. A big thanks goes out to Jeff Cheeney, Mark Carlson, Lynn Rohrer, and the rest of the crew who put this event together.
Monday morning SDC kicked off. The event was pretty action packed. There was a lot of great information from some world class speakers. Sun’s rise to dominance in storage was evident in the conference proceedings. While NetApp had some great presentations, they focused on current issues of performance tuning, corruption analysis, etc… whereas Sun’s presentations were focused on enhansements and new technology including ZFS, iSCSI Encryption (really just a benefit of ZFS Crypto), the iSER (RDMA iSCSI) project, FileBench, NFSv4.1, DTrace’ing IO, etc, etc, etc.
As with most conferences, the most exciting part is meeting new colleagues, sharing ideas, and talking with the subject-matter experts themselves. I was honored to meet and spend time with Mark Carlson, Bob Snively (a personal hero), Spencer Shepler, Michael Eisler, Steve Johnson, as well as friends such as Jeff Bonwick, Bill Moore, Mike Shapiro, Darren Moffat, Dominic Kay, and Peter Dunlap.
A special thanks to Sun for providing me with a conference pass for SDC, a conference I otherwise could not afford to attend.
ben can I have what ever your on! “Sun’s rise to dominance in storage” – wtf
The ARC stuff needs to be chased up – Sun really needs to prove that its worth having it and ZFS. There’s far to much complaining from the BSD camp that they got this fat whale of a file system that they been dumped with. Linux camp is worse, but their are a special case.
Also a cool list of tech, which will probably be of some use to my children, and should look good for all future conferences. Been following pnfs for many years, and will probably do for many more, and looks like what I needed 5 years ago. Hope to see it being released one day.
Sorry for sounding like a flame, but I have been there and done that, and am still having trouble getting off linux. So far it all been about drivers, and there aren’t that many for Solaris. Nice tech shame it only runs on couple of boxes – lets hope the Chinese team does something.
Firstly, linux does have a competitor to ZFS, albeit one still in beta, btrfs. Secondly, Solaris actually is dying. Doesn’t matter how much better it is technically than linux. People are far more important. And Solaris, mainly due to the horribly unfriendliness of Solaris 10. In terms of manageability, it’s light years behind Linux, or any of the BSDs. It lacks package management, which is just about the most important thing you’ve got these days. And Indiana, one of Solaris’ few saving graces, isn’t even supported on Sparc, Sun’s own hardware.
I mean, I’m a linux guy. So maybe I’m just missing something massive. But getting one T2000 running suphp, apache2, mysql, postgres, and one or two minor other services took more time than setting up every single other service the college networking society runs, and most of the things the T2000 is running, across 5 linux machines, and two BSD machines. Plus, after all that, well over half of the actual applications we need to run will be custom compiles, that we’re tracking updates for ourselves. So an entire generation is going to come out of college hearing that Sun have some wonderful hardware, but the most horrible piece of s**t OS going. Maybe it’s better if you want to run Oracle/$ERP/$CRM. But no one learns Unix with any of these. And if no one (and for no one, I mean less than a few thousand people graduating a year) knows Solaris well, then as a Unix, it’s doomed.
cmon, just get some of those brilliant engineers to bring more drivers.more. just to get solaris installed.
I see progress with package management(indiana,nexenta).
make it plain simple to get apache php mysql(with constant updates) installed in zones.You`ll get the folowers. Later they will discover all the other goods.
Cian – sorry, a competitor to ZFS in beta is not a competitor at all.
As for the rest of your first paragraph, it made me feel kinda talented – I’m not even a sysadmin, I do more frontline support (for now)…but in the space of six months I was easily able to learn Solaris from scratch to the point of using it to power a new corporate Sun Ray installation. Consider that before that, I was a Windows and Mac OS X guy. Not even terribly familiar with the CLI. Had a play around with Ubuntu Linux right around the time I discovered that Solaris 10 was actually a free download, and in terms of “ease of management” there was no contest alright: Ubuntu now runs on my desktop, but server? Solaris 10 no question.
I’m delighted by its stability, I get all my package management jones covered by pkgadd (and IPS on OpenSolaris if you wish), and having the power on Zones under the hood right there is unbelievably cool. And it works. Incredibly well.
So well in fact that I’ve purchased my first new Sun Box privately to run it on…
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sorry I missed the party.
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