What's new in OpenSolaris? Roman Strobl

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1 What's new in OpenSolaris? Roman Strobl

2 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris on the desktop? Interesting technologies ZFS DTrace SMF IPS Conclusion, Q & A

3 What is OpenSolaris? New operating system distribution, based on source code of Solaris Releases: & Open source Free to use and deploy Supported

4 It's NOT your father's Solaris

5 It's NOT your father's Solaris

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7 Solaris vs. OpenSolaris* * Other Sun & community distributions are also available!

8 Other Community Distributions Solaris Express Community Edition Belenix MarTux

9 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris on the desktop? Interesting technologies ZFS DTrace SMF IPS Zones Conclusion, Q & A

10 Features Redistributable LiveCD image Boot it to give it a try Install from live session Accelerated video drivers Gnome/compiz desktop Basic software included Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution, Evince,... Package manager

11 Demo Demo: Desktop

12 Agenda What is OpenSolaris? OpenSolaris on the desktop? Interesting technologies ZFS DTrace SMF IPS Zones Conclusion, Q & A

13 Interesting technologies: ZFS ZettaByte File System (Zeta = 1021) Prevents silent data corruption End-to-end integrity Aggressive checksums Almost no limits Capacity 256 quadrillion ZB (1ZB = 1 billion TB) Instantaneous snapshots Small overhead Fast rollback

14 ZFS Pooled Storage Advantages: All free storage space is always available Easy to grow filesystems Faster disk access due to paralelism Much easier to manage

15 Interesting technologies: ZFS Demo: ZFS

16 Interesting technologies: DTrace Dynamic troubleshooting and analysis tool Provides observability across the entire software stack from one tool Used for Troubleshooting software bugs Detailed observability Capturing profiling data for performance analysis

17 Interesting technologies: DTrace Demo: DTrace

18 Interesting technologies: SMF SMF Service Management Facility Replaces RC scripts Handles dependencies between services Services connected with processes Fault management

19 Interesting technologies: SMF Demo: SMF

20 Interesting technologies: IPS IPS Image Packaging System Modern repository-based package delivery

21 Package Repositories

22 What's cool about IPS? Less painful upgrades Snapshots get created If upgrade fails you can rollback or boot into old boot environment You can have more images Install packages as regular user into an image Test package installation in a separate image When package installation fails you can roll back What's not so cool? IPS is new and still evolving

23 Interesting technologies: IPS Demo: IPS

24 Why should you care? Source: indeed.com

25 How to get started? Visit Get the Live CD Get the book

26 How to get started? VirtualBox - easiest way to install OpenSolaris

27 Conclusion OpenSolaris = many interesting technologies ZFS is the ultimate file system DTrace lets you know what really happens SMF for better sleep of sysadmins IPS modern package management Great progress made on the desktop More coming in next releases Stay tuned!

28 Questions?

29 Thank You. Roman Strobl

30 Future plans for OpenSolaris Regular releases is next Future Solaris will be based on OpenSolaris Product name still unclear Much longer support cycle Beta probably based on Regular updates in IPS repository Currently happening bi-weekly

31 Plans for Automated Install Phase 2 IPS Phase 3 NWAM Phase 2 (with GUI) Crossbow Phase 1 (network virtualization) Infiniband (for HPC) GNOME 2.26 Graphical Boot Package Manager 2.0

32 What about SPARC support? only supports x86/x64 Sparc support now in preview Final release It is very important for Sun, it just takes time