DF enterprise deployments

Predrag Punosevac punosevac72 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 09:48:53 PST 2014


>Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>> 
>> I am reading http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammerscript/ and I see that
>> according to semi-official documentation DF and HAMMER in particular
>are
>> somewhat suitable for large enterprise deployments. This is a half
>> question half my wish list based upon my limited experience in
>deploying
>> DragonFly in low-end datacenter.
>> 
>
>I am going to answer this one myself in order to create electronic trace
>for people who are looking for the answers. The good place to start your
>search is Justin's blog 
>
>http://www.dragonflydigest.com/
>
>> Is there anybody who is looking at the sensoring framework on DF at
>the
>> moment? In particular I am interested in something along the lines of
>> OpenBSD stellar native sensorsd daemon. FreeBSD which shares the same
>> heritage has some semi-finished native sensoring framework but IPMI
>> seems to work rather well (at least for such a buggy peace of
>software)
>> comparing to my less than optimal experience on DF. 
>> 
>
>Sascha Wildner has committed an IPMI driver port 
>
>http://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/12/15/15262.html
>
>I could not find any info on possible native sensoring framework.
>
>
>> What is the current status of native bsnmp daemon on DF? I tried using
>
>> net-snmp from DPorts and it worked but with lots of rough edges. Any
>> pointers to HAMMER specific MIBs either for native bsdmp or net-snmp.
>> 
>
>I could not find any info on this one either.
>
>> Finally I am really curious if anybody is using Jails on DF and how
>does
>> Jail infrastructure compares to the current FreeBSD implementation. Is
>> it possible to create a tool like Warden or cbsd for Jails on DF?
>> 
>
>The DragonFly jails were updated from FreeBSD-4.8 capability to FreeBSD
>5.1 capability in 2005. DragonFly is currently soliciting students for
>Google Summer of Code 2015 project to update Jails to the FreeBSD
>version of 9.xxx. 
>
>http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/gsocprojectspage/
>
>Which would be great. Related to this news apparently there is another
>proposal to port Bhyve from FreeBSD. In my experience Bhyve is not
>production ready in FreeBSD as of yet.
>
>Predrag
>
>> Thanks,
>> Predrag

I have to correct myself one more time just in case somebody is going
through mailing list archive. 

It has being brought to my attention on OpenBSD mailing list that
DragonFly BSD has imported sensorsd daemon from OpenBSD so please
disregard that nonsense about lack of sensoring framework as there are
two (sensorsd and IPMI driver in HEAD). 

I also learned great deal about project future from the latest Matt's
interview on bsdtalk248

http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2014_11_01_archive.html

Highly recommended to DragonFly users and wanna be users.

Predrag




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