[ug-bjosug] [advocacy-discuss] BJOSUG Meeting 10JAN08: OpenSolaris, Xen, and ZFS

[Jim Grisanzio]

I will try to call in from Tokyo (pending phone/cell issues, of course). 
:) I'd love to catch some of Amiram's talk.

Jim


Joey.Guo wrote:
> Happy New Year! The first BJOSUG Meeting in 2008 will happen on Jan. 10, 
> next Thursday.
>
> This is last call for registration, please reply the RSVP by Jan. 7 
> (next Monday) so as to order Pizza and drinks for you. Thanks!
>
> BJOSUG
>
> *****************************************************************************
>                  Beijing OpenSolaris Users Group
>                          Thursday, 10 January 2008
>                          OpenSolaris, Xen, and ZFS
> *****************************************************************************
>
> The next BJOSUG meeting will be on Thursday, January 10th, and will
> include discussions on OpenSolaris, Xen, and ZFS. Abstracts of the three
> presentations are included below.
>
> Piazza and drinks will be available at 6:30 pm, with the presentations
> starting at 7:00 pm, and lasting until 8:30 pm. There will be time for
> Q&A after the presentations. Various giveaways such as OpenSolaris DVDs,
> Solaris Books and T-shirts will be provided for your active participation.
>
> The venue will be in the St. Andrews conference room, 7th Floor, Wing A
> of Chuangxin Plaza, Tsinghua Science Park. For those who will dial in
> the meeting, please use the number below:
>
> Dialin:10800-852-0668
>         10800-152-0668
> Passcode: 6794329
>
> Please click the below link for the map:
> http://cn.sun.com/eri/English/index.html
>
> Seating will be limited. Please respond to
> ug-bjosug-rsvp在opensolaris.org before January 3rd if you plan on attending.
>
> To get more information from Beijing OpenSolaris User Group, please
> subscribe to our mail list at:
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-bjosug
>
> Or check out our home page at:
> http://cn.opensolaris.org/usergroup/
>
> About the presentation:
>
> *****************************************************************************
>                        Amiram Hayardeny
>                               OpenSolaris
> *****************************************************************************
> Solaris, traditionally, has been a high-end, enterprise-class operating
> system, running mission-critical or CPU-intensive applications that have
> very strict requirements: scalability, security, durability, stability,
> and performance.
>
> The user interface wasn't considered critical, nor was the need for
> features such as WiFi connectivity, power management, and suspend and
> resume.
>
> Solaris has started on the way from being just a high-end enterprise,
> number one on the planet operating system to being a more common,
> desktop and laptop operating system.
>
> The interesting part is that coming from the enterprise, it can and does
> preserve all these features which one doesn't normally find in
> mainstream operating systems.
>
> Sun decided long ago that Solaris is simply too rich not to share with
> the world.
>
> OpenSolaris is it...  a high-end, enterprise-class operating system,
> which holds hundreds of performance records in every aspect of software
> execution, plus quite a few awards and thousands of patents - all
> brought to you with a special request:
>
>                 use it, enjoy it, change it, share it.
>
>
> *****************************************************************************
>                           Alex Peng
>                                  Xen
> *****************************************************************************
> Xen is an open-source hypervisor developed by the Xen team at the
> University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. xVM adds OpenSolaris
> support to the Xen project.
>
> After SXCE build 75a, it supports OpenSolaris as dom0 or domU, supports
> Xen domain management commands, and some 3rd party domU guests.
>
> In this presentation, we will give a quick introduction on:
>
> - What is Xen?
> - What's the status of xVM (OpenSolaris-on-Xen)?
> - Demo few examples of Xen commands
> - Demo few combinations of OpenSolaris, Linux, etc. as dom0, domU
>
>
> *****************************************************************************
>                           Robin Guo
>                                  ZFS
> *****************************************************************************
> ZFS is an innovative file system that provides simple and powerful
> administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and
> immense scalability. In short, it provides a new approach to data
> management.
>
> In this presentation, we'll discuss such features as:
>
> - How ZFS keeps data consistent on disks and protects them against
> corruption
> - Instantaneous snapshots and clones which make native backup and
> restore faster
> - Flexible properties set on storage pool and filesystems
> - High scalability
> - ZFS as root filesystem
> - ZFS in zones
> - Delegation privileges
> - Coming features, such as: ZFS as default filesystem, ZFS crypto, etc
>
> We hope to see you there!
>
> Thanks,
> BJOSUG
>   
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