OpenSolaris Storage Starter Kit Outline

This page provides an outline for the new OpenSolaris Storage Starter Kit.

Keep Storage Shared

OpenSolaris helps you easily share files across the network and make storage accessible.

Version Title Comment
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Member
Format Status
1 COMSTAR Overview A high-level overview of how COMSTAR works.
2 minutes
  Elizabeth Fais
 
1 COMSTAR Tutorial: Convert a Sun Server into a Fibre Channel Storage Array
Sumit Gupta demonstrates steps to start from a fresh install of COMSTAR to converting a Sun server into a fibre channel storage array. 10 minutes
65 mb Sumit Gupta
 
2
COMSTAR Update 6  Dan Maslowski presents an update about COMSTAR at DM Ambassadors, November 2008
    Dan Mas
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1 Installing and Using COMSTAR
Peter Buckingham speaks at CommunityOne (May, 2008) about COMSTAR. Includes instructions on creating a multiprotocol server, using ZFS to create a file share, installing COMSTAR, and using COMSTAR to create an FC target.   280mb
Peter Buckingham
 
1 Introducing the OpenSolaris Data Migration Manager
Mark Cruciani introduces the OpenSolaris Data Migration Manager in an informal "Birds of a Feather" session at Usenix FAST (February 2008).
10 minutes
82 mb Mark Cruciani
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Native OpenSolaris CIFS Service Alan Wright talks about the OpenSolaris CIFS Server project at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 2008)        
1 pNFS in OpenSolaris
Spencer Shepler and Siddheshwar Mahesh speak about pNFS in OpenSolarisat the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 2007).   152 mb
Spencer Shepler
 
1 QFS File Sharing
Chris Wood interviews Harriet Coverston about QFS file sharing and the Sun QFS software. 7 minutes
20 mb
Harriet Coverston  
1 Solaris Talks Windows with CIFS
Chris Wood interviews Alan Wright about the OpenSolaris CIFS Server project. 9 Min
24 mb
Alan Wright
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1 Supercharging NFS
Lei Chai provides an overview and a demo of NFS Over RDMA in OpenSolaris. 
16 minutes
  Lei Chai
 

Keep Storage Safe

OpenSolaris helps you protect your important data.

Version Title Comment
Runtime
Size
Member
1 Automatic Data Migration (ADM) with ZFS Demo
Joe Blount showing the OpenSolaris Automatic Data Migration (ADM) feature archiving a ZFS file system.  Files are copied and moved from a ZFS file system to tape and disk tiers, data blocks are released from ZFS, and the file is staged back from tape/disk when needed. 8 minutes
  Joe Blount
1 OpenSolaris Tape Enhancements
Scott Tracy speaks about the OpenSolaris tape enhancements at a Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG) meeting (June 2008). 12 minutes
70MB Scott Tracy
1 Sun Makes Archiving Easy with SAM
Chris Wood interviews Harriet Coverston on how to easily archive, access, and protect your data with Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM).
7 minutes
20 MB
1 ZFS is Smashing Baby
Jim Hughes demonstrates the reliability of the ZFS file system. Recorded live in St Petersburg Russia at Sun Tech Days. Two drives are smashed with a sledge hammer and the data keeps moving. Replace the drives and the data magically appears back on the new drives. ZFS takes commodity systems and storage and makes it reliable. 10 minutes
  Jim Hughes

Keep Storage Simple

OpenSolaris helps you simplify your storage management.

Version Title Comment
Runtime
Size
Member
1 Amit Vashi (Qlogic) Interview
Interview with Amit Vashi, Vice President, Qlogic.      
1 Evan Powell (Nexenta) Interview
Interview with Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta.
     
1 Gregory Perry (Liveammo) Interview
Interview with Gregory Perry, CEO, Liveammo.
     
1 iSCSI Management Framework
John Forte presents a new iSCSI management API at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 10-13, 2007). 48 min
  REMOVE1
1 It's Time for Intelligent Storage
Chris Wood interviews Harriet Coverston about object-based storage. 8 minutes
25 mb
 
1 OpenSolaris as a Storage Platform
Jeff Cheeney talks about the OpenSolaris Storage platform at the 2008 USENIX FAST conference. 11 minutes
78 mb
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1 OpenSolaris Home NAS Recipe
Father and son's home NAS project. Presented at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG). ~25 minutes
82 MB
Jeff Cheeney
1 OpenSolaris is a Natural for Storage Developers
Brian Wong presents why OpenSolaris is a natural for storage developers. Presented at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 10-13, 2007). 44 minutes
145 mb
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1 The Open Storage Revolution
Jeff Bonwick speaks about "The Open Storage Revolution" at CommunityOne (May 5, 2008).
282 mb
Jeff Bonwick
2
Storage in the Cloud
Ben Rockwood of Joyent speaks at the first OpenSolaris Storage Summit, held September 2008, in Santa Clara, CA.
     
2
Storage the Solaris Way Thomas Nau, Head of Infrastructure Department, Solaris Geek, University of Ulm, talks about the cool things you can do with storage on OpenSolaris.
     
2
Sun Open Storage Mike Shapiro speaks at the first OpenSolaris Storage Summit, held September 2008, in Santa Clara, CA.      
2
The Solid State Storage Revolution Andy Bechtolsheim talks about the history of storage devices and how flash memory is changing the storage landscape. Presented at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 2008).
     
2
Understanding the ZFS Technology
Tim Thomas presents as part of Sun UK's ZFS Discovery Day.      
1 ZFS and Open Storage
John Fowler announces Sun Open Storage and talks about ZFS.
8 minutes
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1 ZFS as a Root File System
Lori Alt presents ZFS as a Root File Systemat the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (September 10-13, 2007). 37 minutes
115MB
Lori Alt

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