Nexenta are a great company (I'm no way affiliated with them btw), if for no other reason being willing to invest in Illumos and by that OpenIndiana and NCP (for which they charge nothing). If you need a large enterprise commercially backed storage server system, NextentaStor is the answer.
If you want a CLI OS, NCP or OpenIndiana text only will fulfill that spot (there is also illumos-extra which is even more stripped down to bare minimum), if a GUI or desktop is required OpenIndiana has that covered. Whilst there isn't yet official commercial support for OpenIndiana, that is something that has been brought up and the feeling is that it is something that would like to be offered at some point in time, it is just the logistics and organization of that support has to be setup. If it became a deal breaker I'd suggest talking to a senior person of OI, as it possible something could be arranged. I expect we are no more than 6 months away from Illumos being the defacto open source foundation for all the major distributions, which will then start freeing up a lot of developer resources to continue and improve things, beyond this initial get everything together period. ZFS open source future is being hammered out, with hopefully a cross platform working body to promote and move it forward appearing. I know everyone involved is both eager to make sure it's truly open and portable (with support for Illumos/OI, FreeBSD, Linux and OS-X in working or in-progress) and that it has a future regardless of any code drops from Oracle (they are of course welcome if they come, but clearly at this point it can't be relied upon). Personally I think OpenIndiana with Illumos foundations, is a great enterprise quality open source OS with a great future and a bunch of really committed guys and gals behind it. My 2P, Deano -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Garrett D'Amore Sent: 18 March 2011 22:15 To: Paul B. Henson Cc: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org; zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10 Thanks for thinking about us, Paul. A few quick thoughts: a) Nexenta Core Platform is a bare-bones OS. No GUI, in other words (no X11.) It might well suit you. b) NCP 3 will not have an upgrade path to NCP 4. Its simply too much change in the underlying packaging. c) NCP 4 is still 5-6 months away. We're still developing it. d) NCP 4 will make much more use of the illumos userland, and only use Debian when illumos doesn't have an equivalent. e) NCP comes entirely unsupported. NexentaStor is a commercial product with real support behind it, though. f) *Today*, NexentaStor 3 has newer code in it than NCP. That will be changing, as we will be keeping the two much more closely in sync starting with 3.1. g) If you want to self support, OpenIndiana or NCP are both good options. NCP has debian packaging, and lacks a bunch of the GUI goodies. NCP 3 is not as new as OI, but is probably a bit more proven. Hopefully the additional information is helpful to you. - Garrett _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
