On May 7th 2009, the Netherlands Unix Users Group (NLUUG) organized its spring conference, and this time the theme was "Filesystems and Storage". Since NLUUG and NLOSUG have some history together (I was an NLUUG board member between 1998 and 2002 and still do attend NLUUG conferences) we got invited to man a booth at the conference exposition. And so we did! At the end of this blog I posted some pictures from the day.
But... there was more! The theme of the conference, "Filesystems and Storage" of course perfectly matches the Sun Unified Storage proposition. And: the conference couldn't go without a story on ZFS .
We covered the first by sponsoring another booth, manned by my friends from the Storage Practice, who showed an ST7410 system and talked to a lot of people. Especially the wonderful management interface with its Analytics attracted a lot of people. If you want to see for yourself, download the Sun Unified Storage Simulator (for VMWare or VirtualBox) and play with it.
And, to cover ZFS to the max, we invited Neil Perrin, Staff Engineer at Sun in the Solaris Software Group who has worked on ZFS since it's inception over 6 years ago, who delivered a talk on ZFS and was available to the public the rest of the day.
As promised, here some pictures of the day:
1. Me, installing the demo Ultra20 workstation we used to show-off OpenSolaris 2008.11
2. Having fun at our booth (these people shall remain anonymous 
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3. Explaining OpenSolaris
