Nexenta European User Conference 2011 - "Community" by Garrett D'Amore
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Nexenta in the Community
From Our Roots To the Cloud and
Beyond!
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• Historical perspectives
• Current activities
• Future directions
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Agenda
Founders came from Linux community • Open Source roots
• Developed the iSCSI initiator
• Debian packaging and community
Historical Perspective: Linux
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
Historical Perspective: Solaris
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
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
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
Current Activities: illumos
Founder a Nexentian
Nexenta one of several main sponsors
Nexenta a major contributor of many
Upstream for NCP & NexentaStor
Current Activities: illumos
Why is illumos important?
Current Activities: illumos
Why is illumos important?
Current Activities: illumos
Why is illumos important?
Freedom from "Big O".
Current Activities: illumos
Why is illumos important?
Freedom from "Big O".
Current Activities: illumos
illumos ecosystem
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
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
Current Activities: Plugins
Open Plugin APIs for NexentaStor • Both open source and proprietary plugins exist
• Extends capabilities of NexentaStor
• NexentaStor's Developer Community
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
Future Directions: More
StormOS 4
Merging the Enterprise and Community
resources
Improved access to developer resources
More distributions
Open Invention Network
Communities Powering
Enterprise Storage
Thank You!