[OmniOS-discuss] combo storage/virtualization server

[Theo Schlossnagle]

To be clear, you do not need a support contract to run OmniOS on your
servers. You can get community support on this list and on IRC.
Commercial support is those that run the product in an environment
where one cannot be subject to the whimsical schedules/availability of
the community and need things fixed regardless of the difficulty or
complexity of the problem.

For what you describe, OmniOS will likely meet your needs just fine.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
> Once upon a time I was planning to set up a zfs-based storage server at home
> along with a virtualization server running either linux/kvm or vmware esxi.
> Then Oracle came along and killed off OpenSolaris, and that plan got put on
> hold (for a bit over two years now <sigh>). When Joyent announced kvm for
> illumos, I thought it would be sweet to combine the originally planned two
> separate servers into one mongo zfs/kvm/illumos box :).
>
> I'm having trouble finding the perfect distribution though ;). I've been
> keeping an eye on illumian, as I didn't really enjoy working with IPS under
> OpenSolaris, and a dpkg based system sounds more palatable. However, a
> production ready version isn't quite out yet, and it looks like the first
> release isn't going to have kvm support. SmartOS is the clear leader for
> pure virtualization purposes, but the lack of persistent
> customization/configuration in the global zone makes it not very suitable
> for a storage server.
>
> OmniOS seems production ready (although I don't think I can swing the $4k/yr
> support contract for my home deployment ;) ), includes kvm support, and I
> like the minimalistic approach for the base OS. I've been thinking about
> giving it a try, and was wondering if anybody has done much virtualization
> with it and might provide some feedback as far as how that's been working
> out.
>
> I was also curious about the issues OmniTI had with minimizing OpenIndiana,
> and was wondering if the same issues might be encountered with illumian.
> illumian is only going to be a server OS, and not include any of the GUI or
> desktop packages, so potentially would be easier to minimize.
>
> Thanks...
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