Introductory slides for the BayLISA SmartOS meetup on August 16th, 2012

1. BayLISA Meetup

2. Joyent and SmartOS
• Joyent is tackling the challenges of cloud computing:
multi-tenancy/density, observability, storage and
network virtualization
• Joyent believes that the solutions to these problems
begin in the operating system — that the operating
system matters more than ever
• We have our own illumos variant, SmartOS, that
embodies that belief

3. A year of SmartOS
• A year ago, we made SmartOS available with the
announcement of illumos-based KVM — on which
we have since deployed tens of thousands of VMs
• Beyond adding KVM, we have also moved the
system forward by extending the core illumos
technologies: Zones, DTrace, ZFS
• While we want to run all application runtimes, we
have a particular focus on making SmartOS the
premier platform for deploying node.js apps
• In the past year, we have integrated node.js with
SmartOS technologies, e.g. DTrace, mdb, libumem

4. The SmartOS community
• We have seen explosive interest in SmartOS: many
tens of thousands of downloads (!) with a surprising
number running it seriously in production (!!)
• The enthusiasm has come as a (pleasant!) surprise;
we apologize that we havenʼt always had as much
time as we would like to help the community
• We think office hours in #smartos (Thursdays, 10a to
11a Pacific) have been successful, but weʼre always
welcome to new ideas for helping the community!

5. SmartOS community enthusiasm

6. Tonightʼs meetup
• Thanks to tonightʼs sponsors: Telefónica and
Joyentʼs upcoming DTrace training featuring
@brendangregg
• Tonight:
• Bill Pijewski on the SmartOS zpool architecture
• Ben Rockwood on deploying SmartOS by the rack
• Robert Mustacchi on implementing per-thread
caching in libumem
• Bryan Cantrill on DTrace in the non-global zone

8. Thank you.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT
www.joyent.com
OR
www.smartos.org