OpenSolaris 2009.06 Is Available
The latest edition of OpenSolaris extends Sun's built-in approach to virtualization. It is the first enterprise operating system tuned to support advanced network virtualization and resource management. In this video, Larry Wake discusses the features and capabilities of the latest version of Sun's open source OS.
It also delivers major server virtualization technologies with Solaris Containers, Logical Domains (LDoms) for Sun CMT (chip multi-threading) systems, and xVM, Sun's Xen-based hypervisor. OpenSolaris is based on the Solaris kernel and combines cutting-edge innovation with platform stability and enterprise-level support.
Virtualization and OpenSolaris
Sun's David Stewart and Ashok Raj, a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Intel, talk about Intel's work to improve virtualization in the hardware and how Sun is using virtualization technologies with the OpenSolaris OS.
What's New in OS Networking
Sun's greatest Solaris OS networking technology is available now in OpenSolaris 2009.06. Project Crossbow is a network virtualization technology that makes networking more efficient and enhances performance.
It lets you scale network interface workloads over multi-core and multi-processor systems, even on the largest systems. Project Crossbow re-architects the network stack to leverage virtualization technologies as well as the industry's newest and fastest highly-scaled, multi-core, multi-threaded processors.
Project Crossbow's virtual network interfaces provide full resource management which simplifies the administration of complex multi-tiered application deployments on one machine or across your whole data center.
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Open Storage with OpenSolaris
Brian Wong, a Sun Distinguished Engineer, discusses how you can simplify storage management and seamlessly scale as your organization's demands change with Sun's OpenStorage technologies and the OpenSolaris OS.
What's New in OS Storage
The latest Open Solaris version integrates new storage features with the Solaris platform's core functionality, including fault management, networking, multi-threaded scaling, security, and resource management.
OpenSolaris 2009.06 continues to evolve Sun's innovative Solaris ZFS file system technology. It extends ZFS with fully integrated flash storage support, which helps optimize the performance of large-scale high-performance storage.
Solaris ZFS supports certain flash devices as write accelerators and as read accelerators, and then automatically manages these pools to significantly increase performance across several workloads.
In addition, the latest open OS gets native support for the Microsoft CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol, which lets you transparently use and share files across your Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, and Linux environments. Also, OpenSolaris can now be used as both a client and a target for any storage topology because the newest open OS includes high-performance support for iSCSI and Fiber Channel block protocols in the Solaris kernel.
The OpenSolaris Community
The OpenSolaris community is extremely active, and members have added more than 10,000 new packages to the OpenSolaris software repositories. Community members can also participate in discussions and online forums, contribute to the OS code, documentation and testing projects, and collaborate with other developers on a variety of OpenSolaris projects.
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