OpenSolaris
And so the Developer Summit has come and gone. Sun put a lot of effort, time, and money into making the event totally smooth. A big thanks goes out to Ian, Jesse, Sara, and UC Santa Cruz for making the event so awesome. As with any gathering, no matter how smooth the event, good the food, or coordinated things are, its all about the attendees and that was the key focus of the weekend. On Friday night there was an informal reception ...
The Summit is going amazingly well. It really feels like a family reunion. Everyones getting along, a lot of the percieved conflicts just haven't been an issue. Having great fun. Go check out Alvaro Lopez Ortega's "mugshots" of all the attendees.
What is Indiana? No one seems to know. Some people are excited. Some people are confused. Some people are scared and angry. Why? What is Indiana? The answer is, "Exactly!" Not clear enough? Okey, let me explain more in depth. In order to do so, we need to break down some concepts so they are clear and then bring them all together, so bear with me. Part 1: What is Linux? It's a kernel. But I thought it was a distribu...
Yesterday it was announced that Xen support has been putback ("committed" in CVS/SVN speak) to Nevada. The source is available now and the SX:CE release of Build 75 will be coming soon. While we're talking about Xen, this is being released as "xVM", for the following reason: The xVM hypervisor is based on the work of the Xen community. The name 'Xen' is a trademark with some restrictions, so we have chosen to use a separate name to ...
The Intel Developer Forum is now over, which closes out the years big Bay Area conferences for me. My only regret this year was that there was no OpenSolaris presence at LinuxWorld because I was on vacation during the event. For those who were planning on seeing me at CEC in Las Vegas, I'm disappointed to say that the organizers rejected my "iSCSI & The Future of Storage" talk and then today canceled the presentation that I was going ...
There is a interactive Tech Talk with Ian Murdock & Marc Hamilton TONIGHT in Santa Clara (SCA03). Register now and be there! If you see me, stop by and say hello. Here's the address info: When: Monday, September 17th Time: 6:00pm Location: Sun Microsystems Bldg: SCA03 - Auditorium 4030 George Sellon Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054
When we understand to our satisfaction how something works and we can do it quickly we say "Thats easy." It may or not be easy for anyone else, but in your mind it is. The converse is true, when something just doesn't make sense or seems to take more work than you think it should we say "Thats hard." As SysAdmin's we are eager to say the the former and embarrassed to say the latter. General this embarrassement gives way to frustration and ...
Solaris storage enthusiasts will be excited to know that the OpenSolaris iSNS Server Project has released the first usable iSNS Server implementation. I personally refer to this release as "v2" because some of you may recall Sept '06 iSNS Server Release which was completely unusable, after which the iSNS Server Project went dark for some time. But, all that is behind us now! This release completes the iSCSI trio officially now that we have ...
I'm was greatly saddened to read this: NetApp Sues Sun for ZFS Patent Infringement. I've been a big consumer of NetApp and Sun equipment for years. Readers of this blog have read numberous articles discussing the use of iSCSI and ZFS on NetApp in a Solaris environment. On a business level, I get the reality of this. Sun's lawers foolishly walked into a bear cave and the bear woke up. -1 to Sun's lawers. They have no real recourse ...