Re: [PLUG] October Speakers

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

If there is any interest in the new "OpenStorage" market
I can talk about that.

This is a new industry term focusing on moving storage from propriety SAN hardware
towards Software based (NAS/SAN) that runs on standard 64bit hardware.

Most vendors here are exploiting Sun's ZFS - which isn't available on Linux except running
in userland under Fuse - so the performance isn't adequate.  ZFS also supports
using large SSD caches for both writing (ZIL) and reading (L2ARC),  so you
can get SAS performance out of SATA disks.

Nexenta (on OpenSolaris) is leading the way with their NexentaStor product.
The guts run on OpenSolaris which is open-source and includes the ZFS file-system.
The GUI is not open-source but has both free and supported versions.

Right behinds Nexenta is the new release of FreeNAS 8 on BSD which just migrated
to ZFS as well.   OpenFiler runs on Linux but has no ZFS support.

I can show off NexentaStor and typical use cases.

( OpenSolaris is now OpenIndiana  with the IllumOS kernel and Nexenta will likely
be migrating to that OS )

Lee







----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: Sunday, 25 September, 2011 1:27:07 PM
> Subject: [PLUG] October Speakers
> 
> So: the calendar is looking really bare.  It looks like we'll have
> something at North for the October meeting (thanks, Lyz!), but
> there's
> nothing lined up for the Central and West meetings.  Did any speakers
> volunteer at the September meetings that I haven't heard about?
> 
> Does anybody have a talk that they've been thinking about giving?
>  This
> would be an IDEAL time to jump in. ;)
> 
> Paul
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