The openQRM Team is happy to announce the collaboration with TakeOffTechnology.
Running complete server-systems directly from robust, high-available and performant storage server is one of the main concepts of the openQRM Cloud Computing and Data-Center Management platform. With its unique architecture and data-center abstraction layer openQRM provides a complete separation between software- and hardware stack to make physical hardware replaceable at any time.
Especially for Cloud Computing the storage capabilities are an important factor to ensure reliability and service level agreements. To assure best possible quality for their clients by choosing the "latest and greatest" technology available, TakeOffTechnology cooperates with the openQRM Team at the development of a ZFS-Storage integration.
TakeOffTechnology enables businesses of all sizes, developers, consultants, and communities to simplify their complex hosted computing environments. It effectively streamlines deployments, provides complex disaster recovery scenarios, and manages high availability resources. TakeOffTechnology customers enjoy more efficient and effective management of their internet/information infrastructure, while gaining an edge over their competition.
TakeOffTechnology sponsors two new fantastic features in the openQRM. First, the support for Solaris/openSolaris as managed resources and second the integration of the Solaris/openSolaris ZFS filesystem as additional storage option for server-images in openQRM. Via a new "zfs-storage" plugin physical systems or virtual machines from different types are now rapidly deployed and running direct from the ZFS-storage server through the iSCSI protocol.
The ZFS filesystem is still a young project but with amazing features like support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking, automatic repair and RAID-Z it quickly became a new powerful option in latest storage technologies.
Big thanks to TakeOffTechnology for the support and in particular for making those new features available as open-source components (GPL). Both new plugins ("solx86" and "zfs-storage") are available in the files section on the openQRM project website on sf.net.
The openQRM team enjoys and appreciates the excellent cooperation !
Matt Rechenburg
Project Manager openQRM - on behalf of the openQRM Team
