nexenta european user conference 2011 - "community" by garrett d'amore
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Garrett D'Amore's presentation about the Nexenta Community at Nexenta European User Conference 2011 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 20th May at the Holiday Inn Amsterdam.TRANSCRIPT
Nexenta in the Community
From Our Roots To the Cloud and
Beyond!
2
• Historical perspectives
• Current activities
• Future directions
3
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!