On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Cyril Plisko wrote: > FWIW, I have recently heard a totally different story from a highly > ranked Sun official. The fact that a general purpose OS (Solaris) is > inside (which allows for 3rd party add-ons) was pitched as a major > differentiator.
The base OS is indeed based on Nevada. It's not based on OpenSolaris, the distro. OpenSolaris itself is based on Nevada, of course. The OS running on the os7000 line can be though of as its own distro based on the Nevada codebase. This means that the os7000 equipment uses the same iscsi, nfs, cifs and so on bits that are in Nevada, and by extension, that are in OpenSolaris. The Open Storage 7000 web GUI, the CLI, clustering, analytics and all the code that runs those components is a separate code base based on something called "Application Kit" or "ak". This is the "closed source" part of the product. In practical terms, this is the part that makes the os7000 different from a basic install of SXCE. /dale _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
