Our Charter:
Formation of a group of interested OpenSolaris users to host and maintain monthly meetings in Charlotte, NC US for the purpose of discussion, demonstration, and knowledge exchange leading to familiarity, promotion of active participation and ultimately further the adoption of OpenSolaris. The meetings will be open to any parties of similar interest and goals across corporate, educational, government and hobbyist disciplines.
Join Us...
Whether you're a subject matter expert, a power user or just interested in learning about OpenSolaris, join us, participate and contribute as we develop the OpenSolaris community in Charlotte.
To subscribe to the Charlotte OpenSolaris User Group discussion list, visit:
- ug-cltosug for announcements and discussion.
Our primary focus will be to present and demonstrate OpenSolaris technology to the community. We will engage the business and academic communities to schedule interesting and informative technology presentations.
Meeting Place and Times:
We will meet on the first Wednesday of each month from 3:00pm-4:30pm.
The November 4th meeting will be held at the Sun Charlotte Office
Address: 10925 David Taylor Dr - Suite 320 Charlotte, NC
Map
Contacts:
| Butch Fisher | |
| Tom Bernard | tkbernard at hotmail dot com |
| Jason Schroeder | jks at opensolaris dot com |
Next Meeting:
November 4th, 2009
COMSTAR by speaker Scott Dickson
With OpenSolaris COMSTAR technology, an OpenSolaris server can appear to be a storage device to other servers on your network. It can provide not just file-level storage access via NFS and its built-in, native CIFS service, but it can provide block level device access as well. COMSTAR, the Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target subsystem, allows an OpenSolaris server to appear as a raw block device, LUN, or target via iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS, or IB. Come hear how COMSTAR works, how it can be used in a real-world environment, and how other OpenSolaris technologies, like ZFS, make this possible.
Scott Dickson has been a Unix systems engineer, system administrator, and user for over twenty-five years, working with a wide variety of Unix systems across many different industries and environments. For the last fourteen years, Scott has been a systems architect and engineer with Sun Microsystems, specializing in Solaris & Solaris best practices, Web Infrastructures, and Open Source Software. He has worked with both small and large enterprises across a broad spectrum of industries including substantial time in both telecommunications and transportation. Scott founded and currently leads the Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group. Prior to coming to Sun, Scott spent nearly ten years as a system administrator and applications programmer on a variety of Unix and mainframe systems. Scott received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Penn State University.
Future Meetings:
December 2nd, 2009 - Call for speakers is open. Please contact Butch, Tom or Jason above to reserve a time slot and topic.