Octave Orgeron wrote:
With the big diff being that Amazon probably does not use AI to create new
instances. They probably just clone a pre-made image. A little different from a
typical environment.
I'd be very surprised if they were using AI to deploy each image. I'd
also be surprised if they used Jumpstart for Solaris 10 images, were
they offering them. Cloud providers of virtual instances tend to use
custom replication techniques exploiting their underlying infrastructure
and only use the OS tools like AI or Jumpstart or Kickstart to generate
their master images - even S10 flash archive-type replication is too
cumbersome for those environments. We'll be providing a lot more
tooling to support these things: a virtual machine construction
extension to the Distribution Constructor is already in progress, and
later on we'll be providing various image-replication extensions to the
Automated Installer.
Dave
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Octave J. Orgeron
Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant
Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com
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----- Original Message ----
From: Shawn Walker <swal...@opensolaris.org>
To: b...@mirrorshades.net
Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:45:56 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans
Bryan Allen wrote:
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| On 2009-08-11 14:30:50, Shawn Walker wrote:
| | Peter Tribble wrote:
| >If there was a Solaris 11 based on SXCE released, I would just roll
| >it out and stand a good chance of using its strengths to increase its
| >usage. Gain the new technologies, easy to deploy, compatible with
| >both the software and administrative frameworks we already have.
| >With OpenSolaris, it's frankly not ready for testing let alone deployment.
| | I've been using OpenSolaris 200x releases as my day-to-day desktop since |
developer preview 1 and have not used SXCE since then. It also has | worked
well on two different latpops (both very new).
| | It all depends on what your deployment and usage requirements are.
Yes, it does. And the majorty of people relating their ambivalence about
pushing OpenSolaris into production in the near future are talking about
servers. In our datacenters. And convincing our bosses that it's a good idea to
so do.
The whole tone of this thread are sysadmins being wary of unproven change. We
don't care if it runs on your laptop. Are you being disingenuous on purpose or
just not paying attention?
I'm paying attention, but everyone has their own interpretation of statements
made. Regardless, I feel it is perfectly valid to point out that it is useable
on laptops and workstations.
In addition, I also believe that OpenSolaris in its current state is usable in
a datacenter depending on your usage and deployment requirements. For example,
Amazon EC3's service offers OpenSolaris images, which obviously run in a
datacenter.
Cheers,
-- Shawn Walker
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