Saturday, I gave a presentation at the Tokyo OpenSolaris Users Group.  My presentation was an overview of storage types, ZFS and my method for best setting it up for expansion and portability between system to avoid problems later.  The presentation also included a live demonstration of setting up ZFS and connecting an OpenSolaris server to NFS, CIFS and iSCSI clients.  The slides are available for download below.

For my demonstration and presentation I used a Mac Mini with 2GB RAM.  I used two VirtualBox guests, one was the OpenSolaris “Server” and the other was a Windows XP client.  Additionally the presentation was given in Keynote on the same machine.  The machine held up fairly well under the load.

Jim Grisanzio was there and also a big help in organizing things as well as several of the other people at the Sun Microsystems office in Yoga, Tokyo.

Jim, an excellent photographer, even captured the moment in photos, available here.

The presentation is here in large (higher quality) and small PDF format.

TSUG-OSol-NAS-20090627.pdf                   15.9MB

TSUG-OSol-NAS-20090627-small.pdf            3.3MB

The photo above is an iPod vending machine taken very quickly in the Memphis, TN airport.  I’ve never seen a machine like this in Tokyo or any other part of Japan which is the home of all sorts of odd vending machines.