SmartOS
Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor
SmartOS, with its remarkable blend of the illumos kernel's power and the agility of a lightweight OS, has become the preferred choice for many specialized applications. While it shines as a standalone system, its capabilities are truly amplified when used with Triton Compute.
Built on the strong foundation of SmartOS, Triton Compute transforms your virtualization landscape, introducing an orchestration layer that seamlessly handles intricate tasks, optimizes operations, and boosts performance. Triton Compute broadens the scope, delivering an orchestration solution designed for extensive enterprise-level deployments and management.
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Triton SmartOS combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor.
SmartOS
Key Features of Triton SmartOS
Full isolation per container in a multi-tenant environment
Triton SmartOS leverages Zones, a hardened container runtime environment that does not depend upon VM hosts for security. Patented resource protections insulate containers and ensure that each container gets its fair share of I/O.
Each Triton container has its own unique IP address
Triton SmartOS eliminates the complexities associated with VM host dependent solutions. Built-in networking offers each container one or more network interfaces, so each container has a full IP stack and is a full peer on the network, eliminating port conflicts and making network management easy.
Secure, isolated, resizable filesystems for each container
Triton SmartOS leverages ZFS to free container storage from VM host dependencies. ZFS storage virtualization makes secure storage management easy, while maximizing performance. ZFS’ flexible provisioning, copy-on-write, and data integrity checking are an ideal match for containers, while advanced caching techniques make even spinning disks perform as fast as SSDs.
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powered by SmartOS
Triton SmartOS is the engine that powers the Triton Compute and Triton Object Storage.
