The OpenSolaris COMSTAR project is one of Sun's leading Open Storage initiatives. It separates and abstracts back-end storage however access is allowed. Through COMSTAR's SMTF users can allocate some raw disk and then provide it to SAN through an FC Target, iSCSI Target or SAS Target etc. Users can now, with 100 percent open source software, turn a white-box PC with a bunch of SATA disks and a Fibre Channel HBA into what appears to a SAN to be an enterprise grade Fibre Channel array.
Interview with Jim Grisanzio focalized the synergy of OpenSolaris with the global community. "I think that the focal point, to kind of tie these things together," said Grisanzio, "is the OpenSolaris binary distribution, and the fact that it’s surprisingly good... because Solaris is so strong technically, but, people seem genuinely happy with it."
The Sun Cluster Agent for Informix is the first SC Agent built by the open source community is complete and available for download - the first step of realizing the vision of connecting the OHAC community with the product technology, monetizing from opensourcing through the participation of the community.
Solaris Cluster (SC) is an integrated software platform that delivers best-in-class high availability to business services, keeping global enterprises running 24x7 through planned maintenances, failures, wide area outages or disasters.
You can download this sophisticated infrastructure software and use it at no cost. If you need assurance and support, Sun offers licensing and support plans for purchase.
This webcast chats about Sun's commercially supported version of OpenSolaris, the open source OS with an enterprise pedigree, the innovation engine for the Solaris platform, a thriving community of smart, motivated developers, and an opportunity to be successful faster.
Sun reports that its new customer adoption numbers show a significant up tick in adoption rates for the various technologies with the OpenSolaris communities. Hundreds of new Sun enterprise, Web 2.0 and other customers have joined the 150,000+ strong OpenSolaris community, leveraging Solaris ZFS and other open source software combined with Sun's industry standard hardware and world-class service and support to save money and break free from the chains of closed, proprietary software.
"The innovative features of OpenSolaris - such as ZFS, DTrace and its unique distribution model - along with the speed of deployment and execution it allows, have struck a cord with customers," said Tim Cramer, senior director of OpenSolaris engineering, Sun Microsystems Inc.
The OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program was designed to fuel innovation around OpenSolaris.
The program included both a contest and a student grant component and was part of Sun's Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several open source communities with a $1 Million total prize.
"Solaris has always been the 'gold standard' for other operating systems to emulate, and Sun took the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement by storm by publishing Solaris' source code," said Grand Prize winner Al Hopper of Genunix.Org. "The OpenSolaris project is now more than three years old, has a healthy and growing user community and continues to gain mindshare. In the future, the launch of OpenSolaris will be seen as a major landmark in the history of computing and will be viewed as a significant precursor to the runaway success of the F/OSS revolution."
See the list of 18 Prize-Winning Contest Entries and 6 teams of Grant-Winning Students Teams ...
There is a wiki page on genunix.org devoted to many different HOWTOs and Guides. Here newcomers to OpenSolaris and the curious expert can experience some of the basic and not so basic tutorials tools on the Solaris OS.
Sun has released the OpenSolaris distribution which is a brand new way of distributing Solaris using a live CD with even more software available on network repositories.
A self-directed, one-day, self-paced, OpenSolaris training course by Roman Strobl
is now available.
During this training participants will learn how to get started with OpenSolaris and get a good understanding of its benefits. It also offers a unique hands-on experience with many of the advanced technologies which come with OpenSolaris.
An OpenSolaris ARC (architecture board) proposal to support booting Solaris from iSCSI has been approved as PSARC/2008/427. The problem was that Solaris was unable to be boot-off from iSCSI disk. This is a drawback which limits Solaris' competency in iSCSI SAN enviroment, diskless clients.
There is a Solaris for everyone, as shown by a blog in The Observatory: Distributions of OpenSolaris. Here there are brief examples of the different versions of Solaris and their applications. Roman Strobl, who is responsible for the entry shows the different distributions of Solaris.
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