OpenSolaris Storage Community Update
Jeff Cheeney, Storage facilitator, recently posted a ” Storage Community Annual Report“ in which he included these quick facts:
- Projects
- 36 approved & live
- 5 approved, not live - waiting for web pages to be created
- 6 non-Sun leaders
- Community
- 136 Storage Observers
- 232 ZFS Observers
- 27 Core Contributors (all storage communities)
- 35 Contributors (all storage communities)
- Forum Membership
- Storage-discuss: 436
- Total: 4082
- Traffic
- Web: 697,936 hits/yr
- Forums: 14,594 msg/yr
- Blogs:
- Posts: 396/ 6 mo
- Hits: 752,139 /yr
The List of OpenSolaris Storage Projects is quite impressive; it is clear that there’s more to “Open Storage” than ZFS and some marketing hype.
The endorsed storage projects include:
- Automatic Data Migration
- Brocade FC HBA - Initiator
- Brocade FC HBA - Target
- CIFS Server
- CIFS client for Solaris
- COMSTAR: Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target
- DTrace Provider for NFSv4
- Data Migration Manager
- Device Mapper
- Emulex Fibre Channel Device Driver
- Ext3 file system support
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Fuse on Solaris
- Hitachi
- HoneyComb Fixed Content Storage
- Journaled File System (JFS)
- Media Management System
- Multi-pathing software (MPxIO)
- NFS RDMA transport update and performance analysis
- NFS Server in non-Global Zones
- NFS version 4.1 pNFS
- NFSv4 namespace extensions
- NPort ID Virtualization (NPIV)
- Network Storage
- Object Storage Device (OSD) support for Solaris
- OpenPegasus CIM Server
- SAM/QFS
- Solaris iSCSI Target
- Squashfs
- Sun StorageTek Availability Suite
- Test Development
- VSCAN service
- ZFS on disk encryption support
- iSCSI Extensions for Remote DMA (iSER)
- iSNS Server
- lofi compression & cryptography support
Jeff lists the goals and futures for the storage community thus:
- A OpenSolaris Storage Developer “summit”
- More community interviews
- Blogs/ Articles/ Recipes on how to deploy the OpenSolaris Storage stack
- Attend and support more events
- Would love to have some university research based on OpenSolaris
- …. lots more fun …
Dominic Kay and Jeff Cheeney delivered a 30 minute presentation on OpenSolaris Storage technologies at the Open Solaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 28, 2008.
“Open Source + Industry Standards = Open Storage”
The slides for the talk are available here.
Tags: open storage, OpenSolaris, Solaris