The second OpenSolaris Storage Summit, held on February 23, 2009 in San Francisco, hosted a number of interesting presentations:

GENERAL PRESENTATIONS

"Sun Open Storage 2009-2010" by Mike Shapiro

One of the key designers of the Sun Storage 7000 Series, Shapiro kicked off the event with this talk that included a road map for the next year or so on Sun's Open Storage solutions. Slides

"Managing Storage in the Cloud" by Randy Bias of GoGrid

Bias explained challenges in embracing cloud storage with an agenda that covered: Why Storage in the Cloud?, Storage Today, Management Challenges, and the Future/Vision. Slides

"OpenSolaris & ZFS in a Linux World" by Don McAskill of SmugMug

His presentation pointed out the following problems: CentOS Linux shop (lots of expertise); MySQL is storage intensive (iops, size, etc); ext3 old and busted. fsck, well, sucks; half-baked volume management; unknown data state; and serialized writes (non-parallel). The solution - ZFS due to its features such as transactional, copy-on-write, end-to-end data integrity, on-the-fly corruption detection & repair; integrated volume management; snapshots & clones; and open source software. Slides

AFTERNOON TRACK PRESENTATIONS

Contributing to /contrib by Paddy Sreenivasan

Storage Re-provisioning with COMSTAR by Mike La Spina

Crossbow and Open Networking by Sunay Tripathi

Policy Discovery for Parallel Storage by Lei Liu

IOMS, I/O Monitoring and Scheduling in HPC environments by John Kaitschuck

SETI For The People: Addressing the Challenge of Massive Data Sharing by Tucker Bradford

Filebench Architecture by Drew Wilson

ZFS in the Trenches by Ben Rockwood

Storage Landscape for Neuroimaging (Case Study) by Alex Barclay

Storage FMA by Eric Schrock

ZFS, Cache, and Flash by Adam Leventhal

More Information

OpenSolaris Storage Summit 02/2009 wiki

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