Nexenta European User Conference 2011 - "Community" by Garrett D'Amore
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The document outlines the history and current activities of Nexenta, highlighting its roots in open source and its role in developing the NCP and StormOS platforms. It discusses the Illumos project, a community-driven fork of Solaris aimed at maintaining open source standards and collaboration across multiple operating systems. Future directions include continued Illumos development and enhancements to storage features, along with increased community engagement and support.
Nexenta European User Conference 2011 - "Community" by Garrett D'Amore
- 2. Nexenta in the Community From Our Roots To the Cloud and Beyond! 2
- 3. Agenda Historical perspectives Current activities Future directions 3
- 4. Historical Perspective: Linux Founders came from Linux community Open Source roots Developed the iSCSI initiator Debian packaging and community
- 5. Historical Perspective: Solaris OpenSolaris heritage Two decades of Open Standards Sun = largest Open Source contributor Early concept: marry Solaris kernel and GNU userland Desktop OS' are hard Early adopters came from OpenSolaris Engineering leadership largely ex-Sun
- 6. Current Activities: NCP Nexenta Core Platform Basis for NexentaStor & StormOS Fully open source OpenSolaris/illumos kernel Debian packaging & userland Contrib repository Base distribution - not a full desktop OS
- 7. Current Activities: StormOS StormOS General purpose distro Full desktop & server OS XFCE desktop environment Independent effort based on NCP Sponsored by Nexenta More from Andrew Stormont
- 8. Current Activities: illumos illumos - community fork of Solaris Based on OS/Net Core technology Community driven ABI compatible with Oracle Solaris Goal: 100% open source Future home of shared innovation
- 9. Current Activities: illumos Founder a Nexentian Nexenta one of several main sponsors Nexenta a major contributor of many Upstream for NCP & NexentaStor
- 10. Current Activities: illumos Why is illumos important?
- 11. Current Activities: illumos Why is illumos important?
- 12. Current Activities: illumos Why is illumos important? Freedom from "Big O".
- 13. Current Activities: illumos Why is illumos important? Freedom from "Big O".
- 14. Current Activities: illumos illumos ecosystem
- 15. Current Activities: ZFS ZFS Working Group Modeled on standards body working groups Open to significant contributors Representation: illumos, MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and... Solaris! Stewards of the shared open ZFS code Focus: stability, interoperability, and performance Hosted under illumos umbrella Nexenta well represented, but not a majority Led by key ex-Sun/Oracle ZFS engineers
- 16. Current Activities: GSoC Summer of Code Tied into Google Summer of Code Students get paid to work on Open Source during the summer Under shared illumos & OpenIndian umbrella illumos got 2 slots from Google illumos GSoC mentors are Nexentians Nexenta is further sponsoring 3 additional students for illumos work
- 17. Current Activities: Plugins Open Plugin APIs for NexentaStor Both open source and proprietary plugins exist Extends capabilities of NexentaStor NexentaStor's Developer Community
- 18. Future Directions: illumos illumos work continues New storage features New hardware and platform support Legal entity... working with SFLC More marketing and advocacy Elimination of the last of the closed code Delivery of NCP 4 and NexentaStor 4 illumos event in October
- 19. Future Directions: More StormOS 4 Merging the Enterprise and Community resources Improved access to developer resources More distributions Open Invention Network
- 20. Communities Powering Enterprise Storage Thank You!