CEC 2006 impression - Day 1
I'd like to share with you guys what I have heard and what I have seen
in CEC(Customer Engineering 2006) held on Moscone West, San Francisco,
CA, From Oct 1st to Oct 4th, 2006.
Oct 1st is registration day, Oct 2nd is really beginning. When I stepped into the main conference hall, I was shocked. It is so big and well prepared for this magnificent event. I select a seat in very front, I will share your some pictures later. According the statistics, there is 3000+ attendances, 200+ breakouts, 50+ demos, everything shows that this would be a very successful event, I'll get lots of information here.
First general session, Don Grantham, the EVP of GSS(Global Sales & Services), he delivered an important information by data that Sun goes better and will goes much better than we thought, our stock is now over $5.00, which was 3.9 three months ago. Next general session is given by Greg Papadopoulos, the EVP R&D and CTO give sun Strategy and goal of each Practice (System, Storage, Software), I'm full of confidence that Sun goes the right way. And last session is from John Fowler, EVP of system, shows lots of new server, I do not much, but really attractive.
Afternoon is breakout session, which I like best, each one will be 1 hour. You know it is not easy to choose 5 out of 200+.
Session 1
Title : Windows Kernel Crash Dump Analysis
Speakes: Dimitri de Wild EMEA Systems /TSC Kernel Technology
Feri Chua APAC Systems /TSC Kernel Technology
For me, they addresses a new area that Windows can generate Dump file and can be debug. The main reason they need do that is some customers want to run windows on our opteron servers, and windows dump mostly because driver issue. They introduced how to get start and lots of tools to achieve this goal. I was so exciting that I'm brave to offer two questions. One is Dtrace is going to be ported into Mac OS, will that happened on Windows? Answer is No plan. Second one is how does Feri think Windows dump analysis comparing with Solaris, answer is Sparc is quite good, while x86 is samiliar with Windows. I do not know how he get this result, I have no time, need to catch next session.
Session 2
Title : Solaris 10 trusted extensions
Speakes: Bruno Gillet
I choose this session because desktop team develop trusted JDS, I'm willing to hear what the status of whole trusted extension including JDS. But I do not get what I really need in this session, the speaker introduced too much about how security is important, maybe he thought his audiences are mostly sales and customers. He mentioned the key technology is Labeled systems, which I do not get the key points. I am more clear after Niall Power give the introduction about trusted JDS. Also he ran out his time, I wen to next session.
Session 3
Title : Sun's New x64 Data Server
Speakes: Trungchau Ngo
I know little on hardware, maybe this session can give me some knowledge. Sun Fire x4500 Server is very cool, which has 2 Dual opteron CPUs, totally support 40T SATA II disks. As my understanding it is kind of storage server. Then he introduced server Architecture and Storage Architecture and some more details, and I started know nothing what I am listening. :)
Session 4
Title : Packaging and Patching: What's new in Solaris 10?
Speakes: Shivani Khosa Member Tchnical Staff, India Engineering Center
Vineeth Pillai Member Tchnical Staff, India Engineering Center
This topic attracts me in my first sight, it is mainly because I was a Release Engineer, and what I'm now doing is porting some community tools into Solaris, still need to do some release works. I was late because I go around on the demo areas and forgot the time. Bad thing is I can not understand India tone English, I need focus what is written on the presentation. And good thing is Shivani first introduce SVR4 package knowledge, which I know well, I'm getting understand India english during the basic introduction. The speakers, introduce packaging and patching system in Solaris 10, but that is not their purpose. As we all know, Zone is shipped in Solaris10, that introduce complex packaging and patching requirements compared with single zone. They re-design package and patch structure, and implement new package and patch management tools(pkgadd, patchadd, etc).
Zone upgrade is tough thing, for Solaris 10 update, they have developed a project called Ashanti which support zone upgrade, it was integrated in s10u1, but only support s10 to s10ux upgrade. There is another project called Zulu, it is permanent solution for zone upgrade.
After meeting, I talked with them and showed my interest on what they are doing, they give a important information that, if our JDS packages want to support Zone upgrade, we must do some changes. I've gotten their presentation and contact info. It seems we need do some work on that.
Actually, I hope this topic will also cover online update just like apt-get in Debian, but it does not, and I forgot asking them because next session is already started. I may contact them through emails later.
Session 5
Title : The Dynamics of ZFS
Speakes: Roch Bourbonnais, Neelakanth Nadgir, PAE
PAE is Performance, Availability and Architecture. Roch introduced some basic knowledge of ZFS, and difference with UFS, the key point is huge performance enhanced. Neelakanth gave detail informations and more testing data. Here is a table I remembered.
Test TPS
S10U2 UFS Buffered 358
S10U2 ZFS 408
S10U2 ZFS Tuned 878
S11_43 ZFS Tuned 1204
Also, I spent some time on the demo area, very impressed. SotrageTec Data Center Compute Engine, lots of thing I just never heard before. There is also a tool help migarate from linux HP-UX and all kinds of Unix/Linux porting to Solaris, I forget the name, it is developed by Java in India, may get more information tomorrow.
Oct 1st is registration day, Oct 2nd is really beginning. When I stepped into the main conference hall, I was shocked. It is so big and well prepared for this magnificent event. I select a seat in very front, I will share your some pictures later. According the statistics, there is 3000+ attendances, 200+ breakouts, 50+ demos, everything shows that this would be a very successful event, I'll get lots of information here.
First general session, Don Grantham, the EVP of GSS(Global Sales & Services), he delivered an important information by data that Sun goes better and will goes much better than we thought, our stock is now over $5.00, which was 3.9 three months ago. Next general session is given by Greg Papadopoulos, the EVP R&D and CTO give sun Strategy and goal of each Practice (System, Storage, Software), I'm full of confidence that Sun goes the right way. And last session is from John Fowler, EVP of system, shows lots of new server, I do not much, but really attractive.
Afternoon is breakout session, which I like best, each one will be 1 hour. You know it is not easy to choose 5 out of 200+.
Session 1
Title : Windows Kernel Crash Dump Analysis
Speakes: Dimitri de Wild EMEA Systems /TSC Kernel Technology
Feri Chua APAC Systems /TSC Kernel Technology
For me, they addresses a new area that Windows can generate Dump file and can be debug. The main reason they need do that is some customers want to run windows on our opteron servers, and windows dump mostly because driver issue. They introduced how to get start and lots of tools to achieve this goal. I was so exciting that I'm brave to offer two questions. One is Dtrace is going to be ported into Mac OS, will that happened on Windows? Answer is No plan. Second one is how does Feri think Windows dump analysis comparing with Solaris, answer is Sparc is quite good, while x86 is samiliar with Windows. I do not know how he get this result, I have no time, need to catch next session.
Session 2
Title : Solaris 10 trusted extensions
Speakes: Bruno Gillet
I choose this session because desktop team develop trusted JDS, I'm willing to hear what the status of whole trusted extension including JDS. But I do not get what I really need in this session, the speaker introduced too much about how security is important, maybe he thought his audiences are mostly sales and customers. He mentioned the key technology is Labeled systems, which I do not get the key points. I am more clear after Niall Power give the introduction about trusted JDS. Also he ran out his time, I wen to next session.
Session 3
Title : Sun's New x64 Data Server
Speakes: Trungchau Ngo
I know little on hardware, maybe this session can give me some knowledge. Sun Fire x4500 Server is very cool, which has 2 Dual opteron CPUs, totally support 40T SATA II disks. As my understanding it is kind of storage server. Then he introduced server Architecture and Storage Architecture and some more details, and I started know nothing what I am listening. :)
Session 4
Title : Packaging and Patching: What's new in Solaris 10?
Speakes: Shivani Khosa Member Tchnical Staff, India Engineering Center
Vineeth Pillai Member Tchnical Staff, India Engineering Center
This topic attracts me in my first sight, it is mainly because I was a Release Engineer, and what I'm now doing is porting some community tools into Solaris, still need to do some release works. I was late because I go around on the demo areas and forgot the time. Bad thing is I can not understand India tone English, I need focus what is written on the presentation. And good thing is Shivani first introduce SVR4 package knowledge, which I know well, I'm getting understand India english during the basic introduction. The speakers, introduce packaging and patching system in Solaris 10, but that is not their purpose. As we all know, Zone is shipped in Solaris10, that introduce complex packaging and patching requirements compared with single zone. They re-design package and patch structure, and implement new package and patch management tools(pkgadd, patchadd, etc).
Zone upgrade is tough thing, for Solaris 10 update, they have developed a project called Ashanti which support zone upgrade, it was integrated in s10u1, but only support s10 to s10ux upgrade. There is another project called Zulu, it is permanent solution for zone upgrade.
After meeting, I talked with them and showed my interest on what they are doing, they give a important information that, if our JDS packages want to support Zone upgrade, we must do some changes. I've gotten their presentation and contact info. It seems we need do some work on that.
Actually, I hope this topic will also cover online update just like apt-get in Debian, but it does not, and I forgot asking them because next session is already started. I may contact them through emails later.
Session 5
Title : The Dynamics of ZFS
Speakes: Roch Bourbonnais, Neelakanth Nadgir, PAE
PAE is Performance, Availability and Architecture. Roch introduced some basic knowledge of ZFS, and difference with UFS, the key point is huge performance enhanced. Neelakanth gave detail informations and more testing data. Here is a table I remembered.
Test TPS
S10U2 UFS Buffered 358
S10U2 ZFS 408
S10U2 ZFS Tuned 878
S11_43 ZFS Tuned 1204
Also, I spent some time on the demo area, very impressed. SotrageTec Data Center Compute Engine, lots of thing I just never heard before. There is also a tool help migarate from linux HP-UX and all kinds of Unix/Linux porting to Solaris, I forget the name, it is developed by Java in India, may get more information tomorrow.
