[OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Ivar Janmaat]

Now we are talking!
I have been deploying Sun Rays for over 14 years.
It is a perfect solution and it needs rock solide virtualisation to 
handle the large numbers of VMs.
ZFS and Comstar features would be great to use.
I am hoping that the next version of Oracle VDI/Sun Ray software 
supports Solaris 11 and Comstar.
With OpenIndiana as a drop in replacement for Solaris 11 it should also 
be possible to run this version on Openindiana.
So I need Openindiana to be around at that time guys!

Kind regards,

Ivar



Sašo Kiselkov schreef:
>
>
> I think you hit one area where, as garrett described, Illumos and OI
> could excel: desktop virtualization. It's all the rage these days due to
> reduced management issues and added security. Sun had a solution for
> just this market ages ago with the Sun Ray range of products. OI should
> take a good long look at these areas, because we could use the core
> Illumos technologies to really kick commercial VDI infrastructures in
> the teeth with at least the following:
>
>  *) Much, much, much lower overhead when compared to VDI. A VDI machine
>     needs loads of DRAM, loads of disk IO capacity and consequently is a
>     very expensive proposition. OI can run VDI instances either
>     natively or isolated in zones and provide excellent performance
>     (potentially orders of magnitude better than VMware or other kinds
>     of traditional heavy-weight VMs).
>
>  *) ZFS for file management, built-in backups, rollbacks, and just a
>     sweet bundle of win for the VDI market.
>
>  *) A very secure and well managed software environment with local
>     IPS repos, DTrace for solving performance issues and just generally
>     much better control over the environment than that provided by
>     closed black-box products).
>
> Anyway, just my $0.02
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso
>
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