new blog

I'll be leaving Sun September 5.  I've set up a new blog at wordpress.

I'm also on the linkedin and facebook communities.

Posted by AaronDailey [General] ( September 02, 2008 05:11 PM ) Permalink

Network Storage releases to OpenSolaris!

I am back from a trip to Japan for Chinese New Year Holiday, and noticed that the software I've worked on is now part of OpenSolaris. Check it out: Open Solaris Storage Community

I worked with many others at Sun to make this happen. For all of you that have been waiting, enjoy!

If you don't work at Sun, it may be confusing why this software was released separately from the original OpenSolaris release. Source code at Sun is organized into consolidations, or collections of related software. Sometimes consolidations follow technical boundaries, sometimes business boundaries, and sometimes they're historical. ON (Operating system/Networking) is the largest consolidation, and is what was originally released with OpenSolaris. It contains the bulk of the Solaris kernel, and many device drivers. Network Storage Consolidation contains much of the storage software used in Solaris.

Posted by AaronDailey [General] ( February 03, 2006 08:01 PM ) Permalink

Moving to China

I've moved to Beijing for six months, to help the Sun team here pick up
some of the storage software that I've worked on in the past. The
opportunity arose when we decided to move some development work here.
After waiting a long time for different administrative approvals within
Sun, I finally made it here 8 days ago.

I live in a small apartment, not far from the Sun office. The Sun office looks
surprisingly like any Sun office, similar decorations. It's a little
quieter than Colorado, but you really could be in any Sun office.

My neighborhood is called Wudaokou. It's near several universities, so there
are lots of students, foreign as well as Chinese. There are a couple
restaurants for western students that could be in any college town in the
US, as well as lots of good Chinese restaurants. There's a fair amount of
high tech and some huge electronics stores. There's a subway stop nearby,
which is great for getting into the city center.

Different topic - a white paper (called blue print at Sun) I wrote with a
colleague at Sun was recently published. It talks about combining existing
functionality built into Solaris with the newly released iSCSI initiator
to achieve redundant connections. The story is still not simple, and will
probably get more complex before the industry settles on de facto
standards, but hopefully this paper will help. See www.sun.com/blueprints

Posted by AaronDailey [General] ( January 11, 2006 09:14 PM ) Permalink

Hello

I set this page up several weeks ago, and figured it was time to post something to it. Good Friday later afternoon activity.

My job at Sun is working on the FibreChannel device driver stack. FibreChannel is a protocol used to mostly used for relatively big computers to communicate with storage devices.It's a complex protocol, and has taken me a long time to appreciate it - to really appreciate it. We just released SAN foundation software 4.4.1

I may regret this offer, but we're wanting customer input, so if you're familiar with out software (Solaris SAN Foundation Software), and have something to say, please drop me an email (aaron.dailey at sun.com). We're especially looking for items that might make your job easier.

I've been at Sun nearly 4 years ... hired in the boom of the 2000, and still here. It's still one of the best places I've worked.Some of us talk about what we'd do if we didn't work here, and especially in the Colorado area, there's not much that compares to being able to work on the kernel of an operating system (in my mind).

I live in Boulder, just up Highway 36 from the Sun facility in Broomfield. If I can figure out how to put some links, I'll include some web cameras here . Boulder sits on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, and is quite a beautiful place to be. It's known for a lot of things - an island of liberalism in a conservative state, uber atheletes, and great natural beauty.

Posted by AaronDailey [General] ( July 31, 2004 06:28 AM ) Permalink