[OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

[Paul B. Henson]

On 3/21/2011 2:59 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> I *hate* talking about unreleased product schedules

:).

> but I think you can expect a beta with a month or two, perhaps less.
> We've already got an alpha that we've handed out in limited
> quantities.

Actually, I read about that alpha; one of my coworkers was at SCALE 9x, 
if I'd known at the time I would have had him pick up a CD ;).

> Once you dive under the controlled UI (which you can do), you
> basically are breaking your support contract.

Meh :(, that rules it out for me; I need to run our own custom stuff to 
integrate it into our identity management platform.

> add-on features like HA clustering, the management UI,
> auto-tiering/auto-sync, etc.

HA clustering I would actually be interested in, depending on pricing; 
but unfortunately not in an appliance-only availability.

> There have been some discussions, but figuring out how to make that
> commercially worthwhile is challenging

Agreed. If not support contracts, what about engineering services 
available on a time/materials basis? That would cover my main concern of 
having expertise available in case of a critical failure. There might 
also be occasions where a specific bug has already been identified, but 
local resources lack sufficient time or knowledge to efficiently fix it. 
One of the people I've spoken to off-line mentioned a handful of known 
opensolaris bugs he'd really like to see resolved in NCP and would be 
willing to pay somebody to make it happen.

Thanks for the info...


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