Octave Orgeron wrote:
Hi Dave,
This sound very interesting, especially for people such as my self
that specialize in virtualization. LDoms presents a wide selection of
choices on how to replicate a guest domain, image files, volumes,
ZFS, etc. And containers obviously have the ZFS clone feature.
I agree that flash archives, while useful, are rather cumbersome.
Jumpstart can be powerful when extended properly, but again it adds a
lot of up-front complexity and requires specialized knowledge that
not all SA's have. There are some things I do like about AI, but it
definitely needs some more work. One thing that would be interesting
is some mechanism for configuring, securing, and customizing AI
installs. Some mechanism for creating a configuration snapshot
(things like SMF service settings, /etc conf files, security
settings, etc.) that could be used for AI installs, auditing
installed systems against, and remediation. Something like that would
be useful for enterprises, cloud environments, and even those who
want to build appliances.
Octave, we'd welcome additional RFE's on AI features. The overall plan
for configuring services primarily involves leveraging the recent
extension to SMF profiles that allows customization of any property
value, not just the enabled/disabled state. We're starting to work with
a variety of teams to migrate items that were formerly expressed in the
sysidcfg mechanism to this mechanism, and other components will be
encouraged to move to this design as well. There's a lot to be done, to
be sure, but this direction should enable you as an administrator to
assert a great deal more control over system configuration in your
deployments with far less labor than was required in the past.
Dave
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