Christopher, I’m not in the best position to test this just yet, but I’d be extremely interested in whether or not perfSONAR[1] could run in an lx-branded zone. It’s typically deployed on a Centos image (liveCD/LiveUSB/native install) and requires some additional kernel extensions to gather the necessary data for monitoring a number of network performance aspects, but if it works (and does so at near wire speed), it would be awesome.
I know from my perspective that being able to deploy perfSONAR in a zone (and therefore being able to deploy multiple perfSONARs in the same “system”) would be very interesting for high-performance network testing and monitoring at research institutions (perhaps just mine, but I bet others would adopt it). Many institutions are working hard to deploy Science DMZ[2] networks to support frictionless data flows for research collaboration and processing. Also, now that many universities have 100G links between them, being able to spin up high-performance, wire-speed cloud-like service infrastructures could be come quite handy (insert Joyent here). —— [1] - http://www.perfsonar.net [2] - https://fasterdata.es.net/science-dmz/ -- William Deigaard ^-^ ([email protected]) (O O) Go Owls! ( v ) ------------------m-m--Director, 713-348-5262 (o.) Networking, Telecommunications & Data Centers 713 568-8120 (gv) Rice University On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Christopher Horrell via smartos-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We just released the following lx-brand image to images.joyent.com: > > lx-centos-6 20150313 f7c19252-c998-11e4-be95-3315493f3741 > > This is a first cut of an lx-brand CentOS image. It's best to consider this a > beta image and much will probably change. We wanted to make the image > publicly available to make it accessible for anyone who is testing out the > lx-brand work in SmartOS. > > Regards, > > -- > Christopher Horrell > Manager, Solutions Engineering > Joyent Inc. > http://www.joyent.com/ > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
