On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:54:36 -0800, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > Henri Maddox wrote: >> Hi There, >> >> I found an older (about 1 1/2 year) german article about OpenSolaris as >> Storage solution. >> >> There was namend the "Fishworks Appliance Kit with OpenSolaris" and that >> this is a free Sun-Project for building a fileserver. >> >> But I cant find any informations about this in the web. >> >> Could someone help me out? >> >> Thanx >> Henri >> > > I doubt you will find any. The Fishworks code was used to build the > proprietary Analytics interface used with Sun's 7000 series storage > products. The code is proprietary, and is unlikely to ever be open > sourced as it is part of the "secret sauce" for those products. > > Of course, internally, these products use OpenSolaris, and in theory it > is possible for someone else to build their own interfaces on top of > OpenSolaris to create fully open-source file servers. Although, trying > to reproduce the impressive Analytics UI and observability features > would require a rather non-trivial amount of highly technical work. > > - Garrett
The Fishworks Appliance Kit (AK) still exists, but my guess is that it is going to remain closed - Analytics might (presumably) be an optional appliance component but the web framework and other management systems it uses are shared. Other articles mentioned Sun may licence AK to hardware vendors. There are multiple configurations of AK for the different Sun Storage hardware platforms (named after fish or sushi), and possibly others. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/fishworks_now_it_can_be has a general overview that mentions AK, and http://wikis.sun.com/display/FishWorks/FishBlog+Central has links to some non-Analytics information as well. If you download the virtual machine demo images of Amber Road you can poke around the insides: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2009/01/20/under-hood-sunstorage-7000 has some inside details. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
