Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Sun Microsystems created Solaris, an operating system descended from UNIX System V R4 and Berkeley Software Distribution via Sun’s own SunOS. Solaris 10 eventually came to include important, revolutionary technologies such as ZFS, zones, and DTrace. In 2005, Sun began to open source the OS as OpenSolaris, while still continuing to sell and support Solaris to its customers (the company was pursuing a similar strategy with other important technologies such as Java and MySQL). The survival of Sun’s open source projects was cast into doubt when Sun was acquired by Oracle in early 2010.

On August 3, 2010, Garrett D’Amore (formerly an engineer at Sun) announced the illumos project to create a truly open source Solaris by replacing the remaining closed-source bits of OpenSolaris with open implementations. By this time, many key Solaris developers had left Oracle, or soon would, so there was plenty of talent available and actively interested in working on this new fork of Solaris. illumos today enjoys a thriving, growing community of engineers: talented newcomers as well as longstanding Sun talent.

illumos Day will gather some of these folks in San Francisco, to share what’s happening in illumos today and where we’re headed. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Barbara Higgins configures a Sun ZFS Storage Appliance to serve as a storage library for a server pool using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. The procedure is divided into Section One which involves steps taken from the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance's user interface and involves configuring the appliance to use both the FC and the iSCSI protocols. The the user creates an account for Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. In Section Two, from the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, one creates a discovery profile for the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance to discover the storage appliance, creating a dynamic storage library.
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In a procedure replete with code samples and screen shots, Laura Hartman outlines the steps necessary to create and configure an Oracle Solaris 11 non-global zone from the Plan Management View of Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. The zones created with this procedure will have these characteristics, Hartman writes:

• SAN storage is used for the zone and NAS storage is used for the zone metadata.
• The zone is installed from the Oracle Solaris 11 Software Update library.

Hartman advises that the zone is available for use as a separate operating system.
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