Napp-IT noob question

[femi]

Just started reading about Napp-IT

1) What is preferred & why: OpenIndiana or illumian?

2) Is Napp-It used in production by businesses?

 

[_Gea]

Just started reading about Napp-IT

1) What is preferred & why: OpenIndiana or illumian?

2) Is Napp-It used in production by businesses?

yes of course, systems based on OpenSolaris are used in production-
managed via CLI or via napp-it

More important are the enterprises behind, who are responsible for further development
mostly using the OS for their own business.

If you look at the sponsor-list at https://www.illumos.org/ you will find some of them
who are behind the Illumos based distributions (the common core project, something
like the Linux kernel project + basic tools)

- Illumian (Nexenta, use it as base for their upcoming NexentaStor V.4 appliance)
- OpenIndiana (quite independent Opensource project)
- SmartOS (Joyent, use it as base for their cloud)

Beside this there is Solaris 11 from Oracle and NexentaStor/Core V.3 based on OpenSolaris 134 (end of live)
Both have stable state

You have asked about OI vs Illumian
Illiumian is the newest distribution (available a few weeks). I doubt it is now used in production beside some tests.
This will change when Nexenta moves to it as base of its V.4 appliance (soon). I expect a "stable" Illumian sooner
than a "stable" OpenIndiana. While they share a common base, OpenIndiana is a common use server OS while
Illumian is like NexentaCore/Stor a storage only OS with much more options to test.

For a pure file server on a best to use hardware, you may use both without expecting too much problems.
For production use (there is no support option for them just like with napp-it), you should not be a absolute novice to
Solaris because you must be able to fix problems yourself. The pro is, its a Server-OS from one hand just like
Windows or OSX with sometimes less problems like a toolkit OS like Linux.

In any case, you should know your systems to a certain level, independant if its Linux, Windows or Unix/ Solaris


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[femi]

_Gea,

Thx for your thorough explanation.
It was very helpful