Even though I am a big fan of Linux based Enterprise Solutions, I'm also keen on all the different flavours of Unix. I would like to pay special attention to the latest OpenSolaris update that includes major improvements alligned with the keys that made Linux successful along with Intel enterprise-class servers.
I've tested it out on a virtual machine and I have to admit that its brandnew installation process is quite similar to the easiest deployment of Linux: a LiveCD with OpenSolaris 20009.06 allows you to give it a try without the need of carrying out the setting up.
Both networking and performance have been improved by including Project Crossbow, which is Sun's network architecture for virtualisation. Crossbow's goal is to ease administration of complex deployments.
The OpenSolaris Packaging System can be easily administered by a GUI in a similar way to most popular Linux distributions.
OpenSolaris 2009.06 also includes a new version of Sun's ZFS file system, which now supports flash storage devices. Flash-based storage can be used to accelerate read and write access to build high-performance storage systems and simplify its administration with ZFS.
Further information can be found here
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment