[PLUG] October ZFS talk

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

Paul,

OK,   I'll have a talk put together for Oct 5 at Central and repeat at West.


Introduction to ZFS and Open Storage
------------------------------------

Sun started the Open Storage market with the release of ZFS on Solaris.
The new owner of Sun's IP (Oracle) defines Open Storage as:

As a general term, open storage refers to storage systems built with an open architecture using industry-standard hardware and open-source software.


Regards,

Lee



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>
> To: "Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 September, 2011 7:18:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] October Speakers
> 
> Great!  Thanks, Lee...btw, by "this" month, I did in fact mean
> October (the 5th)
> for Central.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Lee H. Marzke wrote:
> 
> > Paul,
> > 
> > Sounds like people want to know more:
> > 
> > - ZFS filesystem
> > - Command-line  ( OpenSolaris )
> > - GUI (NexentaStor)
> > 
> > 
> > Let me look into the details and I'll get back to you by the
> > weekend.
> > West - likely yes,  and Central Maybe
> > 
> > Lee
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>
> > > To: "Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 2:17:49 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] October Speakers
> > > 
> > > Hey, Lee,
> > > 
> > > Sounds very interesting!
> > > 
> > > Any chance you'd be able to talk at Central?  If not, how about
> > > West?
> > >  (I'm
> > > thinking maybe Central this month and West next, if you're game.)
> > > 
> > > Paul
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Lee H. Marzke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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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