I believe in N1

Friday Nov 17, 2006

So i just got done with a few days of training in chicago with my peers.. it was fantastic. I spend my time so heads down on solaris that i don't get to see what others are doing and by the end i was really really proud to be part of sun.

The big things are all the n1 software that works with zones and containers. I am finding that if someone over the age of 40 has more than like 3 zones on 3 different machines, it's hard to remember which one is which.. the solaris container manager does exactly what i want it to do. show me the zones and perf data for those zones.. great.. also had some time to look at the n1sm product for provisioning and cluster.. very cool tools to make life easier for admin's rather than the tools of the past which seemed to make things harder.

Without going into specifics.. the vision of n1 is almost here. the idea of n machines under 1 management structure..1 button click, well maybe 2 or 3, to roll out an entire data center..maybe a few more clicks but still pretty cool..