[OmniOS-discuss] LX zones and a small Howto

[Günther Alka]

Most important is the success of the Illumos or Open-ZFS platform.
LX containers are from Joyent (btw have you read this article 
https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/03/containers-summit-nyc ), SMB2+ and 
sequential resilvering are or may come from Nexenta and native 
encryption from ZoL with many features or additions that strengthen the 
platform from others versus Oracle or Linux.

ESXi, SmartOS or Proxmox are very good as a cloud or virtualisation 
platform where you can run or use ZFS  but OmniOS is a perfect NAS/SAN 
filer or server OS with the option to run a Linux container. This is 
indeed new.

Thanks to all

Gea

Am 12.10.2016 um 20:52 schrieb Dan McDonald:
>> On Oct 12, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Günther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:
>>
>> What I must say is, that this seems to be a real killer innovation for OmniOS as you can run OmniOS as a very solid ZFS filer with additional Linux services running directly especially with preconfigured services as a container where you only need a copy and import/run after some small editings of a config file like shares or nics.
> Joyent did most of the hard work here with LX -- credit where due, please. :)
>
> By integrating it into OmniOS, though, you get the improvment of a fully-working global zone (where many sharing services can only function... e.g. no NFS in an NGZ currently) with the capability for closer-to-native Linux services (not as much running KVM in a zone now, for example).
>
> Thanks for the napp-it update!
> Dan
>

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