- Sun Open Storage
Sun Open Storage is an
open source computer data storage platform developed bySun Microsystems . Based on industry-standard hardware and open source technologies from Sun Microsystems, Sun Open Storage offers an open storage architecture withoutvendor lock-in .Background
Sun acquired
StorageTek in 2005 and released many of the technologies as open source. Combined with server technologies and Solaris, Sun hopes to take advantage ofeconomies of scale and build an affordable storage platform. Sun believes that open storage products and related services will gain 12 percent of the storage market by2011 . [cite web|url=http://www.sun.com/storage/openstorage/OpenStorAdoption.pdf|title=Open Storage Adoption|date=2008-07-23|publisher=Sun Microsystems ] Storage solutions from other venders are closed systems, in which all the components must come from the vendor.Technologies
Features
At the storage protocol layer,
OpenSolaris offers support forSCSI ,iSCSI ,iSNS ,Fibre Channel ,FCoE ,InfiniBand ,RDMA ,Object storage device , and SAS.oftware
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OpenSolaris
*ZFS , NFS, andCIFS
* StorageTek Archive Manager
* StorageTek Availability SuiteHardware platforms
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Sun Fire X4500
*Sun StorageTek 5800 System References
ee also
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FreeNAS External links
* [http://www.sun.com/storage/openstorage/ Sun Open Storage]
* [http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/projects/ OpenSolaris Storage Projects]
* [http://developers.sun.com/openstorage/articles/opensolaris_storage_server.html Setting Up an OpenSolaris Storage Server in 10 Minutes or Less]
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