Nexenta European User Conference 2011 - "Community" by Garrett D'Amore

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!