ALL STORAGE COMPONENTS

OpenSolaris Storage Components

The following table provides more detail about the storage components in OpenSolaris. The table also shows the contents of the two storage profiles (see Getting Started). The profiles are a time saver for provisioning OpenSolaris for storage purposes. After installing OpenSolaris you can use the Package Manager to select one of the two profiles depending on your storage needs. The Network Attached Storage (NAS) profile, called storage-nas in the Package Manager, contains the main components to provide NAS services. The Storage Server profile, storage-server, contains all the storage components in OpenSolaris 2008.11.

The table also shows which components are in the core OpenSolaris 2008.11 distribution.

Category	Technology	Notes	NAS Profile	Storage Server Profile	Part of core 2008.11
File Services	ZFS	ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. See the ZFS community page		X	X
File Services	CIFS	OpenSolaris in-kernel open source CIFS implementation.	X	X	X
File Services	NFS Server	OpenSolaris, Solaris, and SunOS have been delivering NFS services for close to 25 years	X	X	X
File Services	NFS client			X	X
File Services	Samba	The open source project for providing file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.		X
Security	Virus Scan	Supports sending files off to a virus scanning server that uses the ICAP protocol.	X	X
Storage Targets and Drivers	iSCSI target		X	X
Storage Targets and Drivers	Fibre Channel	There are a number of FC packages including libraries based on T11 FC-HBA specification, device drivers (including Emulex and Qlogic drivers), debug aids (adb macros and mdb modules), FCIP IP/ARP over FC device driver, FC transport layer, and others.		X	X
Storage Targets and Drivers	HBA drivers	Adaptec AdvanceRaid ControllerSCSI HBA, Adaptec Ultra320, Advanced Host Controller Interface SATA, LSI MegaRAID SCSI HBA, LSI Hardware RAID HBA, LSI MegaSAS RAID Controller HBA,Marvell 88sx sata driver		X	X
Storage Manage- ment	NDMP	Network Data Management Protocol is an open standard protocol for enterprise-wide backup of heterogeneous network-attached storage. See project page.	X	X
Storage Manage- ment	Automounter	Automount file systems through the automountd daemon		X	X
Storage Manage- ment	Solaris Data Management WBEM/CIM API	CIM 2.7 providers for NFS		X
Storage Manage- ment	Solaris Volume Manager	Sun's venerable volume manager tool and now freely available. See the project page.		X	X
Storage Manage- ment	Storage Media Management	New magnetic tape and tape library managment facility based on IEEE standard 1244. See the project page.		X	X
Storage Manage- ment	Serial Management Protocol for Serial Attached SCSI	Provides a way to communicate with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expanders through Serial Management Protocol (SMP). With the smp target driver, users can issue SMP requests and receive SMP responses through the USMP interface. This allows a privileged user to configure and manage SAS domains. See the documentation pertaining to the inclusion of this project in OpenSolaris.		X	X
Storage Manage- ment	iSCSI Management and APIs	Management utilities and a variety of SNIA compliant management libraries.		X	X
Storage Manage- ment	Solaris internet Storage Name Service(iSNS) Server	Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) is an industry standard for automated discovery, management and configuration of iSCSI and Fibre Channel devices on a TCP/IP network. See the project page.		X
Storage Manage- ment	SNIA Multipath Management	Libraries, and utilities		X	X
Data Services	Availability Suite Point-In-Time Copy	This software allows capture of live data for independent read-and-write purposes. One can access a point-in-time copy while other operations, such as backup, data recovery, application testing, database extracts, data migration, or data warehouse loading, occur in parallel without disrupting production application access and operation. See the project page and the Administration Guide..		X
Data Services	Remote Mirror	Provides data replication across IP networks. See the project page and the Administration Guide.		X
Data Services	Availability Suite Cache Management and Volume Driver	These are software commponents common to both the Point-In-Time Copy and Remote Mirror software. The Cache Management software maintains a kernel based read cache used by Availability Suite to manage configured bitmap volume devices. The Volume Driver interposes the entire Availability Suite I/O stack on to preexisting Solaris block devices. See the project page and the Availability Suite documentation set		X
Performance	FileBench	FileBench is a framework of file system workloads for measuring and comparing file system performance. See the community page		X