Open Storage Software

How OpenSolaris open source storage software can help you build an Open Storage system.

• Introduction
• Major Storage Technologies
• All the Storage Components
• What's New
• FAQ
• Getting Started
• Success Stories

Building an Open Storage Community Learn more about the growing OpenSolaris Storage Software Community and current projects.

• - Explore the OpenSolaris.org storage community,
• - Join the storage community,
• - Track the community - either through individual project forums or by joining the informative storage-announce email list for major announcements from the OpenSolaris storage community.

Introduction

Open source software is revolutionizing the storage industry in the same way it dramatically changed the economics in the server market over the last decade. Leading this trend are OpenSolaris and the Open Storage community.
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Major Components

OpenSolaris provides the award-winning ZFS file system for unprecedented scalability, reliability, and simplicity of management, a rich set of data protocols and services for seamless file system interoperability (e.g. CIFS, NFS) as well as high performance, enterprise quality connectivity options such as iSCSI, Infiniband, and Fiber Channel.
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All Storage Components

The OpenSolaris storage offering is much more than ZFS and support for the major file and block protocols.
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What's New

There are a number of significant storage additions to OpenSolaris 2008.11, including a high speed NFS option, the first phase of project COMSTAR, introduction of Fault Management Architecture for storage, a variety of tape projects, and so forth.
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Getting Started

Once you have installed OpenSolaris, it's easy to use the package manager to select a storage profile.
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Success Stories

Open Storage has driven much interest in OpenSolaris and the proof is in the success stories.
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