watching video http://smartos.org/2011/08/24/video-smartos-the-modern-operating-system/
- ALPHA! not ready for production use yet but they're moving fast. didn't give an ETA. Not meant for install, but there are instructions to try it.
- QEMU/KVM in a sparse Zone/container. So the security holes recently found are not an issue. Attacker just gets stuck in a container/zone.
- like vmware free version has no GUI for managing VM's. unless Solaris & derivatives has something? The managing software SmartDataCenter like vSphere I suppose.
- sometimes VM gets faster than bare metal due to ZFS's ARC
- Xen is for the history books
- likes OS level virtualization as default - use KVM for hardware virtualization only for legacy stuff that you have to do it.
- no fan of SANS "centralized storage", like storage local with ZFS. From bad experience.
- wants to play well with others: illumos, kvm, bsd, gnu, etc communities. Open and willing to help to get other projects on there
- projects they'd help but not doing: AMD CPU's (??), spice VDI, ??installer for smartOS
- saw a visualization app for dtrace - graph of a linux VM writing to ext3 FS , cool!
- VM live migration for KVM, not for OS level VM's
- local z-pool for VM storage, zfs send/receive for VM migration
- 6.5 release in mid-october.
- major in-house upgrade for joyent in couple months. ??will have close match brtw in-house and public repository
- installer for smartos will be tough - they don't install but run on dram. boot off usb for head node.
- ext3 over ZFS does have a penalty. use OS virtualization if performance matters.
- chance of a free version of SmartDataCenter. Not decided.
- metering for resource based billing
- regular podcasts in the future, stay tuned
- ALPHA! not ready for production use yet but they're moving fast. didn't give an ETA. Not meant for install, but there are instructions to try it.
- QEMU/KVM in a sparse Zone/container. So the security holes recently found are not an issue. Attacker just gets stuck in a container/zone.
- like vmware free version has no GUI for managing VM's. unless Solaris & derivatives has something? The managing software SmartDataCenter like vSphere I suppose.
- sometimes VM gets faster than bare metal due to ZFS's ARC
- Xen is for the history books
- likes OS level virtualization as default - use KVM for hardware virtualization only for legacy stuff that you have to do it.
- no fan of SANS "centralized storage", like storage local with ZFS. From bad experience.
- wants to play well with others: illumos, kvm, bsd, gnu, etc communities. Open and willing to help to get other projects on there
- projects they'd help but not doing: AMD CPU's (??), spice VDI, ??installer for smartOS
- saw a visualization app for dtrace - graph of a linux VM writing to ext3 FS , cool!
- VM live migration for KVM, not for OS level VM's
- local z-pool for VM storage, zfs send/receive for VM migration
- 6.5 release in mid-october.
- major in-house upgrade for joyent in couple months. ??will have close match brtw in-house and public repository
- installer for smartos will be tough - they don't install but run on dram. boot off usb for head node.
- ext3 over ZFS does have a penalty. use OS virtualization if performance matters.
- chance of a free version of SmartDataCenter. Not decided.
- metering for resource based billing
- regular podcasts in the future, stay tuned
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