OpenIndiana is a community supported operating system, based on the illumos kernel and userland.
It is open source, free to use, and suitable for servers and desktops.
OpenIndiana and illumos provide a platform offering:
| ZFS | COW journaling filesystem and volume manager |
| Zones | Lightweight Virtualisation Technology |
| SMF | Service Management Facility for software lifecycle control |
| IPS | Network based package management system integrated with ZFS |
| FMA | Fault Management Architecture |
| COMSTAR | Enterprise SCSI target system supporting iSCSI/iSER/FC/FCOE |
| Crossbow | Fully virtualised high performance network stack |
| DTrace | Extensive deep diagnosis and debugging framework |
| Boot Environments | Transactional operating system upgrades with rollback |
| Role Based Access Control | Least-privilege model for managing processes and users |
| IP Multipathing | High availability networking and greater bandwidth |
| Integrated L3/L4 kernel mode Load Balancer | |
| Integrated VRRP IP failover facility |
Download the latest images of OpenIndiana for Desktop or Server installations.