Hi everyone, Heinz here maintainer of Project-FiFo and i’d like to give my two cents to the conversation. First off I think what you want can be achieved with both SDC and FiFo. if your main concern is the UI then it is much up to taste, as UI’s so often ware, some like one better some the other. Just like some people prefer Word over Pages or the other way around while for the major part of people get what they need from either.
Things start to get different on a more technical level, while SDC focuses on a head node that runs the majority of your software (with the option so replicate some data outside of it in other zones), FiFo is build in a distributed manner and lives along your other zones. This removes such a SPOF, if you are running a full clustered fifo the loss of one of the zones will have no effect on availability and your operations can continue normally (one or two requests might fail when they were just im process during the node exploding). Since the fifo services can grow and shrink (adding more zones) it also allows you to start small (call it 8 GB of memory in total) and grow as you need not set aside a whole physical node for it. I haven’t used SDC, but I’d hope that it’s a bit more mature with a big company like Joyent building it not a small open source community. On the topic of docker support, I am sure Triton is much further in it’s support but thanks to the fact that Joyent did a great job exposing the fundamentals needed for it in SmartOS itself FiFo has experimental docker support since version 0.7.1 and it’ll be improving over the next versions. People hopping on the ‘OMFG it’s Erlang” train, sorry folks it’s a red herring, you don’t need to know Erlang to run FiFo, just as much as you don’t need to know C to run SmartOs. For end users Implementation language is near irrelevant. That said Erlang gives you very power full tools to inspect / interact with a system so knowing erlang lets you dive deeper into a problem that you could with SDC, but that is an option wich some might choose others might not. If you don’t know erlang you are fine, we’re generally a helpful bunch and if you file a ticket we try to resolve it quickly. Bottom line, I think both are good and valid solutions, with some differences and each with their strong and weak spots. Best to try out both and see wich scratches your itch the best :) and what are the problems you want to face. Cheers, Heinz > On Jan 8, 2016, at 22:13, Jon Dison <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm getting ready to spin up a development instance of SmartOS and I need to > have a user-friendly GUI for some of the less technical people on staff. > What can you tell me about the differences between Project-FiFo and > SmartDataCenter as far as its GUI, particularly as it pertains to a > non-technical person's ability to provision new VMs. > > Thanks, > Jon > smartos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/22035142-3ef24523> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/>
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