Sun has donated storage software code to the OpenSolarisTM project. The software includes Solaris ZFS, NFS, iSCSI, OSD, Fibre Channel support and more.

This gives the OpenSolaris community members the chance to "combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create new storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors," according to a feature article on Sun.com by Chip Brookshaw.

"Sun helps customers 'shrink the stack' if they so choose," says Bob Porras, Sun vice president, Solaris Storage Software. "Some companies want to develop products around core open technologies; others want to put the entire open stack to use. Sun's approach makes both strategies viable."

The new storage community part of the OpenSolaris website will serve as an umbrella for the OpenSolaris storage and data management related communities and projects — everything from file sharing, file systems, volume managers, data services, storage drivers, and many others. Check the site again because Sun plans to add more storage code over the next several months, including SAM-FS, QFS, and the Sun StorageTekTM 5800 storage system.

See the Sun feature online for a video, descriptions of the softwares, and links to more.

The Sun press release also lists details. [...read more...]

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