Day 1 (March 22, 2012) - Tutorials and Small Meetings I

Please note that Day 1 is for tutorials and meetings only. No exhibition and no paper session for unregistered attendees to them.

Day 2 (March 23, 2012) - Tutorials and Small Meetings II

Please note that Day 2 is for tutorials and meetings only. No exhibition and no paper session for unregistered attendees to them.

Day 3 (March 24, 2012) - Paper Session I

Day 4 (March 25, 2012) - Paper Session II

Keynote

K1: Embedded Technology and BSD UNIX in Japan

Abstract:

This keynote will introduce key technologies used in embedded systems and use cases of UNIX-like OSes in Japan. There are major embedded computer system manufacturers which are using Linux, BSD, and OpenSolaris for their products. Mr. Takeoka will describe the history and the current situation of embedded UNIX in Japan.

Speaker:

Shozo TAKEOKA founded AXE, Inc. in 1992, a vendor which provides custom-ordered network equipments based on BSD, middleware for cellphones, embedded BSD, and embedded Linux to major home appliance and digital camera manufacturers in Japan. One of his notable works is XTAL, a microkernel suitable for small embedded systems. It has been adopted in Zaurus Personal Information Tool by Sharp Corporation, digital cameras by Olympus Corporation, and a 6Mbps satellite communication system. He is a director of PC Cluster Consortium, a Vice President of OSS Consortium, and a director of Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association. He is currently working on supercomputing and embedded technologies based on BSD and Linux.

Tutorials

T1A: Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter

Abstract:

This session is aimed at experienced or aspiring network administrators who want to expand their knowledge of PF, the OpenBSD packet filter, and related tools. A basic knowledge of Unix and TCP/IP network configuration is expected and required. Topics covered include

• Configuration on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD
• PF ruleset basics and rule interactions: block, pass, match
• Writing maintainable rulesets
• Address families: IPv4 NAT vs IPv6
• Redirection, divert and services with odd dependencies (ftp-proxy, spamd)
• Adaptive rulesets (state tracking tricks)
• ALTQ traffic shaping
• Per user filtering with authpf
• High availability with CARP, relayd
• Wireless vs wired networks
• Filtering bridges
• Logging and monitoring - pflog, pflow and others
• Testing, debugging, and optimizing your configuration

Instructor:

Peter N. M. Hansteen is a consultant, sysadmin and writer from Bergen, Norway. Realizing that his rock'n'roll career was going nowhere, he started tinkering with computers in the mid 1980s, and rediscovered Unixes about the time 386BSD appeared. By a natural progression of real-world challenges and a need to find useful solutions, he ended up with a strong preference for open source in general and OpenBSD in particular. A longtime freenix advocate, he is a member of the BLUG (Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group) core group and a former vice president of NUUG (the Norwegian Unix User Group, the local USENIX sister organization).

During recent years he has been a frequent lecturer and tutor with emphasis on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, author of several articles and The Book of PF (No Starch Press 2007, 2nd edition November 2010).

He writes an occasionally slashdotted blog at http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ centering on sanity in IT (or really the lack of it) and works with the Unix and infrastructure team at EDB ErgoGroup ASA, Norway's and Scandinavia's dominant IT services company.

T2A: Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter

Abstract:

The session will provide updates on the new PF syntax and features introduced in OpenBSD 4.7 (with samples presented in the old and new syntax where appropriate), with newer updates and previews of relevant new features in the upcoming OpenBSD 5.1 release (planned release date May 1st, 2012).

The tutorial is loosely based on Hansteen's book, The Book of PF (No Starch Press, second edition November 2010).

Slides matching the EuroBSDCon 2011 version of the tutorial can be found at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/eurobsdcon2011/; updated slides will be made available to the general public at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/asiabsdcon2012/ after the present session has concluded.

Instructor:

Peter N. M. Hansteen is a consultant, sysadmin and writer from Bergen, Norway. Realizing that his rock'n'roll career was going nowhere, he started tinkering with computers in the mid 1980s, and rediscovered Unixes about the time 386BSD appeared. By a natural progression of real-world challenges and a need to find useful solutions, he ended up with a strong preference for open source in general and OpenBSD in particular. A longtime freenix advocate, he is a member of the BLUG (Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group) core group and a former vice president of NUUG (the Norwegian Unix User Group, the local USENIX sister organization).

During recent years he has been a frequent lecturer and tutor with emphasis on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, author of several articles and The Book of PF (No Starch Press 2007, 2nd edition November 2010).

He writes an occasionally slashdotted blog at http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ centering on sanity in IT (or really the lack of it) and works with the Unix and infrastructure team at EDB ErgoGroup ASA, Norway's and Scandinavia's dominant IT services company.

T1B: DTrace on FreeBSD: Hands on Workshop

Abstract:

DTrace is a powerful tool developed by Sun Microsystems for analyzing system behaviour and troubleshooting problems on production systems in real time. DTrace has been included in FreeBSD since release 8.0, and DTrace support in FreeBSD 9.0 has improved even further.

This tutorial will demonstrate the use of DTrace on FreeBSD. Students will be shown how to enable DTrace on FreeBSD (if not already enabled) and how to become proficient with using DTrace to formulate queries about the system and get desired answers.

Instructor:

Tod McQuillin co-founded Telerama, one of the United States's first public access internet service providers in 1991. After joining UBS in 1995, Tod has continued in various roles at UBS including system administration, source code administration and developer services, performance metrics engineering and software development, and automated software build frameworks.

He has been working with BSD Unix since 1988, FreeBSD since 1993 and Solaris since 1995.

After moving to Japan in 1996, Tod has learned to read and write Japanese, Perl, C, and SQL to a high proficiency.

T2B: Maintaining your own PBI package repository

Abstract:

This tutorial will cover all the major aspects of using the new PBI build and distribution system. We will take a look at how to create and maintain a repository of software for either public or private use. In addition we will dig deeper into how to run a build system, building PBIs from FreeBSD ports, either manually or in a fully-automated manner. Advanced topics such as custom build options, installation scripts and more will also be presented.

Instructor:

Kristofer Moore is the founder and lead developer of the PC-BSD desktop operating system. He is the original creator and developer of the PBI package management format which is available on FreeBSD and PC-BSD systems. Kris currently resides in the Maryville Tennessee area (USA), with his wife and 4 kids, where he develops PC-BSD and enjoys gaming in his spare time.

T3A: FreeBSD Administration Basics (in Japanese)

Abstract:

This tutorial is aimed to provide basic knowledge of FreeBSD system administration, especially for remote network server management. The topics covered are installation and updating the FreeBSD base system, installing third-party software, configuration examples of various network services (web, email, NTP, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, etc.), remote machine monitoring, storage management, and other daily work needed for system administration. Although the 9.0-RELEASE on i386 and amd64 are the primary target, the instructor will give some explanations about other architectures, too.

The students will learn what a sysadmin should do in general and administration howtos specific to FreeBSD.

Instructor:

Hiroki Sato is an assistant professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He joined FreeBSD Project as a committer since 2000, and has been working as a member of Documentation Engineering Team, Release Engineering Team, and FreeBSD Core Team, and also working as a director at FreeBSD Foundation. He also joined the NetBSD Foundation in 2003. His primary research areas are integrated circuit design, signal processing, and computer architecture.

T4A: IPv6 Tutorial

Abstract:

We all know that IPv4 is running out faster than we could ever predict, and everybody considering himself an'IT guy' should already be knowledgeable about IPv6, a protocol that has been available and usable for more than ten years but never got the right level of audience. Being ahead of the majority of the people will give those who were smart enough a lead over those that underestimated the 'threat'. This tutorial is intended for people wanting to get a greater grasp on the technology and implications of running IPv6, and will be presented a series of exercises to get running in this somewhat new world. There will be an introduction sheding light on key concepts and features, preparing the attendees for the rest of the session, focusing on putting hands on an IPv6-only network.

Topics of the tutorial include IPv6 subnetting, protocol implementation for different common i ternet services like www, mail, dns, along with digressions over routing protocols and implementations. Focus will be on a bands-on approach, where the attendee is requested to act and work on configuring services over a real network.

At the end if the session, attendees should be able to set up an IPv6-enabled network with no hassle, and with the required know-how to migrate services to the new protocol.

Instructors:

Massimiliano Stucchi is CTO of BrianTel, an Italian ISP and WISP. Holding his position, he manages a broad range of systems and technologies with his fellow NOC'ers, such as a geographical wireless network ranging throughout northern Italy, PoPs in a few datacenters and a wired access network spanning the whole country. He is also responsible for running the route servers for MINAP, an internet exchange, and helps running the Italian FreeBSD Users Group (GUFI). In his other life, he's an official referee for the Italian Soccer Federation and a hardcore fan of a few players on the WTA Tour.

Philip Paeps is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He provides research and development on operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance networking.

In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He is also deeply involved in the organization of FOSDEM, one of the largest annual open source conferences in Europe.

T5A: Introduction to NETGRAPH on FreeBSD Systems

Abstract:

FreeBSDs NETGRAPH infrastructure can be understood as customizable network plumbing. Its flexibility and the fact that this infrastructure runs in the kernel makes it an attractive enabling technology where time-to-market, agility, and performance are important.

The goal of the tutorial is to become familiar with FreeBSDs NETGRAPH framework and the available NETGRAPH kernel modules. The participants will gain insight and understanding for which projects lend themselves well to NETGRAPH solutions. A number of examples are shown which can be used as a starting point for new NETGRAPH projects. In the first part of the tutorial, the NETGRAPH nodes, hooks, and control messages are described and the command syntax is explained via demonstrations on simple examples. Participants learn how they can describe a network connection in terms of its underlying protocols and how to express a solution using NETGRAPH terminology.

The second part of the tutorial investigates frequently used NETGRAPH nodes and shows how they interconnect to create network protocols. More complex NETGRAPH examples including VLAN bridges, UDP tunnels, and the Multi-link Point-to-Point daemon are described. Guidelines and resources for developing custom NETGRAPH modules are surveyed.

Instructor:

Adrian Steinmann earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and has over 20 years experience as an IT consultant and software developer. He is founder of Webgroup Consulting AG, a Swiss consulting company.

He has been working with FreeBSD since 1993 and NetBSD since 2005. He develops and maintains the STYX system to offer FreeBSD remote managed firewall services and to build custom systems on small x86 based platforms. This enabling technology has also been used to build secure encryption appliances on commodity hardware for the Swiss IT industry.

He is fluent in Perl, C, English, German, Italian, and has passion and flair for finding straightforward solutions to intricate problems.

During his free time he likes to play Go, to hike, and to sculpt.

T6A: FreeBSDを使った日本語環境の構築 (in Japanese)

Abstract:

本チュートリアルでは、FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASEをベースに、日本語を扱うことができるワークステーション(PC作業環境)を構築する方法を紹介する。GNOMEやKDE、XFce4などの統合環境を利用せず、Compizをベースに必要最小限となるアプリケーションやフォントのインストール、および快適な日本語環境を構築するための設定を説明する。

また、構築したワークステーションのベースとなっているFreeBSDおよびアプリケーションを最新の状態に保持し続ける方法も紹介する。特定の用途に最適化された環境は、必要な機能だけを組み合わせて不要なものがインストールされていない。見通しのいいシステムはアップデートも筋良く実施できる。

UNIX系のシステム開発やアプリケーション開発には、Mac OS XやPC-BSDなど既存のプロダクトを活用できる。しかし、こうしたプロダクトは想定されている以外の用途には使いづらい面がある。必要のないアプリケーションやツールがプレインストールされており、停止させることができないデーモンが動作している。業務に必要になるシステムを構築する場合、FreeBSDをベースに必要最小限のソフトウェアを組み上げていくことはさまざまな面で利点がある。

Instructor:

後藤大地。FreeBSDコミッタ、オングス代表取締役社長。システム開発や情報システムコンサルティング、マイナビニュースにおける記事執筆、技術評論社Gihyo.jpにおける記事執筆、書籍執筆、各種ITシステム開発ほか、さまざまな業務に従事。

Meetings

B1D, B4D: *BSD Developer Summit (invited only)

Chair:

TBA

BSD Associate Examination

Abstract:

The BSDA certification is an entry-level certification on BSD Unix systems administration. For more details, please visit:

http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/associate.html

NOTE: For this exam you need pre-registration via the above URL.

Papers

P1A: Revisiting make: a better build system for NetBSD

Abstract:

The make tool has been the core of the build system of the BSDs for over three decades. Modern competition has proven that incremental builds can be made significantly faster than the status quo. This presentation highlights what made make so successful, what short comings it has and looks at a possible replacement.

Author:

Jörg Sonnenberger is studying mathematics and working as contract developer for German federal agencies. He is an active NetBSD and pkgsrc developer. Recently, his focus has been on support of LLVM and Clang for NetBSD and the associated library stack.

P2A: Integrating LLVM into FreeBSD

Abstract:

Spurred by the introduction of the GPLv3 The FreeBSD Project has selected The LLVM Project as the primary source of future base system toolchain components. In FreeBSD's 9.0 release we have included clang as an optional compiler and have added libc++ to HEAD. This talk will trace the events that lead us from a GPLv2 toolchain through today's status including how one can enable the latest optional features. I will then outline our future directions including the possibility of a GPL-free base system.

Author:

Brooks Davis is a Senior Engineering Specialist in the Technical Computing Services subdivision of The Aerospace Corporation. He has been a FreeBSD user since 1994, a FreeBSD committer since 2001, and a core team member since 2006. He also contributes to the Ganglia and Sun Grid Engine projects.

He earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College in 1998. His computing interests include high performance computing, networking, security, mobility, and, of course, finding ways to use FreeBSD in all these areas. When not computing, he enjoys reading, cooking, brewing, introducing people to the pleasures of Slow Food, and pounding on red-hot iron in his garage blacksmith shop.

P3A: Apropos Replacement: Development of a full text search tool for man pages

Abstract:

Manual pages are a key component of Unix like operating systems, they have played a significant role in the success of Unix over the years. Man pages are a single source of consultation for most of the routine work of a system administrator or programmer. However, so far, there has been a lack of good search tool to accompany them.

Traditionally, apropos(1) has been there as a search interface but it was developed in the early days of Unix when computing resources were scarce and that is the primary reason for its simple design and limited search capabilities.

This paper discusses a new implementation of apropos which was done as part of Google Summer of Code 2011. The goal of this project was to replace the conventional apropos in NetBSD with a modern version which supports full text searches.

In the first part, the paper discusses the shortcomings of the conventional apropos, and how the new implementation overcomes those shortcomings. In the second part it discusses the implementation details of the new apropos in brief, compares and contrasts a couple of related projects which have tried to tackle this problem in a different manner and concludes with future possibilities of the project.

Author:

Abhinav Upadhyay finished his bachelors degree few months back, majoring in Information Technology. He got involved with the NetBSD community through Google's Summer of Code 2011 program. Before that he had been a contributer to a few other open source projects like Ubuntu, Tomboy, Debian.

As part of the Google Summer of Code 2011 program he worked on writing a new implementation of apropos(1), with the goal of supporting full text search, much like a search engine. For this project he was mentored by J&oulm;rg Sonnenberger.

He enjoys learning more and more about computer science. His interests include Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, operating systems and mathematics. He wishes to go ahead and do research in one or more of these fields in future.

P4A: Semantic Search of UNIX Manpages

Abstract:

The way we search for UNIX manuals -- apropos(1) or whatis(1), then man(1) -- has been part of UNIX since the late seventies. But what happens when we want to search for something particular and don't know the manual name? For example, how do we locate the manual for a particular chipset, or a particular external variable?

grep(1) is adequate for many cases, but can be prohibitively time-consuming; and more importantly, it doesn't guarantee results (or returns too many!). Can we do better?

We can. Since 4.4BSD, BSD UNIX systems have used mdoc(7) for manpage sources. In a departure from legacy formats, mdoc(7) semantically (instead of presentationally) annotates content. In "Semantic Search of UNIX Manpages", I'll describe how the mandoc(1) backend can take advantage of this mark-up to index and semantically query manpage trees.

I'll demonstrate web-based and command-line interfaces, both available for download and easy deployment. I'll then focus on why semantic search may never make it into default use due to the high cost of structured compilation versus text extraction, and what we can do for optimal performance.

Author:

Kristaps Dzonsons is a researcher living in Stockholm. He writes open source software to fix what he sees as broken. Or inelegant.

P5A: FreeBSD + nginx. The best WWW server for the best operating system

Abstract:

Today the NGINX web server can be safely considered mature. Launched 10 years ago the project is still gaining popularity. This paper introduces the NGINX web-server, describes its implementation approach and architectural goals. Also it demonstrates how NGINX works on FreeBSD operating system and reveals strategies of the product usage, the ways to deploy and optimize it and other challenges.

Author:

Sergey A. Osokin was born 1972 in Kazakhstan (USSR), studied in applied mathematics (computer science) from Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute. He has been a FreeBSD user since 1996. Committer for FreeBSD ports tree since 2003. He worked for various companies from banks to ISPs. He is the author of ngx_http_redis, the nginx module for redis. Supporting nginx for FreeBSD ports tree since 0.1.2, currently www/nginx and www/nginx-devel are supports 50 third-party various modules: from access to SQL/NoSQL databases to authentication and cache management.

P6A: FUSE and FreeBSD

Abstract:

As part of the 2011 Google Summer of Code, Ilya Putsikau updated and completed a BSD licensed FUSE kernel module for FreeBSD. With the SoC project completed I have been working to complete, test and integrate the code into the HEAD of the FreeBSD tree. FUSE support is not simply the addition of the kernel parts of the code, but must also address the various filesystems from the ports tree which require FUSE for their use. While the idea behind FUSE is easy to understand the complexity is in the details of hose the code interacts with the filesystem support in the kernel as well as the APIs that it exposes into user space. This paper is an overview of the FUSE code for FreeBSD with a heavy emphasis on interactions with the rest of the kernel combined with several, real world, examples of user space filesystems interacting correctly with the kernel.

Author:

George Neville-Neil works on networking and operating system code for fun and profit. He also teaches various course on subjects related to computer programming. His professional areas of interest include code spelunking, operating systems, networking and security. He is the co-author with Marshall Kirk McKusick of _The Design and Implementaion of the FreeBSD operating system_ and is the columnist behind ACM Queue's "Kode Vicious." Mr. Neville-Neil earned his bachelor's degree in computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a member of the ACM, the Usenix Association and the IEEE. He is an avid bicyclist and traveler who currently resides in New York City.

P7A: 10 years of pf

Abstract:

2011 marks the 10th anniversary of OpenBSD's packet filter PF, and in May the project will ship it's 20th release containing this firewall implementation. This talk will present an illustrated history of PF's evolution over this period, with highlights of the major changes, adoption by other projects, and other points of interest. In addition to presenting summary performance data for all 20 releases of OpenBSD containing PF, we will also present more detailed "best case" and "worst case" performance data for the current version of PF on a variety of popular hardware platforms.

Both authors have been involved with PF since it's inaugural release with OpenBSD 3.0, besides actively developing the code, henning@ was possibly the first person to run it in a commercial production environment; and mcbride@ introduced IPv6 support into this release.

Author:

Henning Brauer is 32 in lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is running the Internet Service Provider "BS Web Services" there, for more than 10 years. He joined OpenBSD in 2002 and has been working on many things, most network related, since. He started OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD, the framework he has written for bgpd is used by almost all newer daemons in OpenBSD. He has been working on the OpenBSD packet filter, pf, from the beginning and is now one of the heads behind it. Whe he's not hacking you can find him mountain biking, traveling and hiking or in one of the many bars in his neighborhood with his friends.

P8A: 10 years of pf (continued)

P9A: FreeBSD on Freescale QorIQ Data Path Acceleration Architecture Devices

Abstract:

This paper describes the design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system port for the QorIQ Data Path Acceleration Architecture, a family of communications microprocessors from Freescale. These chips are a modern, multi-core, PowerPC based SoCs, which feature a number of specifically designed peripherals, addressed for the high performance networking devices, which are increasingly common in modern communication infrastructure.

The primary focus is the Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) with the new approach to network interface architecture. It has significant influence on the FreeBSD device drivers design and implementation. The paper describes how the full network functionality was brought forward, and also covers other major evelopment asks like the e500mc quad-core SMP bring-up and support for other integrated devices.

Author:

Michał Dubiel, M.Sc. Eng., born 17th of September 1983 in Kraksw, Poland. He graduated in 2009 from the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics of AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraksw. Throughout the last year of his master studies he worked with the Reconfigurable Computational Systems team at AGH-UST, doing his thesis on hardware-accelerated data mining systems. Before the graduation, he had joined the Wireless Base Transcievier Stations team at Motorola Electronics Poland, where he worked as a DSP Software Engineer developing LTE base stations' software components. Currently he is working for Semihalf within the team responsible for development of the FreeBSD kernel for the PowerPC architecture. He is mainly interested in the computer science, especially the operating systems, programming languages and digital signal processing.

P10A: NPF: NetBSD's new firewall

Abstract:

During last year's summer, I added IPv6 support to NPF, which was (then) new firewall code written by Mindaugas Rasiukevicius. Then during the summer, my Google Summer of Code project was to add IPv6 support to this codebase. The aim of the new firewall code is to create a modern, scalable, conceptually sound firewall capable of utilizing multi-core hardware, with a pf-like syntax in order to help newcomers.

I will talk about the general ideas behind a firewall, and how NPF was implemented; the required changes to support IPv6, and will present and analyze some performance benchmarks.

The firewall will debut in the upcoming NetBSD 6.0 release.

Author:

Zoltan Arnold NAGY is working at IBM's Zurich Research Lab, doing cloud security related research and prototyping ideas. He is currently working towards his masters degree at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest (hopefully finishing in June). The thesis will be about infrastructure cloud security. He believes clouds are more than buzzwords, and they are here to stay; however, the term is really overused. Also, there are lots of problems related to clouds that needs solving.

Apart from working in C on low-level stuff, he really likes Java, both as in the programming language and as in the ecosystem (especially Java EE) and python for rapid prototyping.

P11A: BSD Multiplicity: An applied survey of BSD multiplicity and virtualization strategies from chroot to BHyVe

Abstract:

Ever since the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Research Group implemented the chroot(8) command and system call in its "Berkley Software Distribution" operating system in 1982, the community-developed BSD Unix derivatives have set the standard for the introduction of plurality to the conventionally-singular Unix userland. Today's system operators and developers have an array of BSD-licensed multiplicity strategies at their disposal that offer various degrees of both isolation and virtualization when introducing plurality to their systems. This paper will survey established BSD multiplicity strategies including chroot, FreeBSD jail, NetBSD/Xen, Amazon EC2, compat_linux, compat_mach, GXemul and SIMH, plus experimental strategies such as FreeBSD BHyVe, OpenBSD sysjail and NetBSD mult. As an applied survey, this paper will both categorize each multiplicity strategy by the Unix environment to which it introduces plurality and assess the performance impact of each strategy using a common set of benchmarks. By demonstrating the usage of the utilities relating to each solution, the reader will come away with a set of working examples for each solution that they can implement on their own.

Author:

Michael Dexter has used BSD Unix systems since 1991 and wrote his first FreeBSD jail management system in 2005. Dissatisfied with existing multiplicity solutions, he has sponsored the BSD.lv SysJail and mult multiplicity research projects and took his BSD support public with the formation of BSD Fund in 2007. BSD Fund sponsored the modernization of the Portable C Compiler and sponsored BSD events around the globe. Michael is now the Editor of Call For Testing, a BSD technical journal that provides the most extensive BSD event coverage and BHyVe BSD hypervisor technical documentation available. Michael also produces the Gainframe line of FreeNAS-optimized storage appliances that are available through a network of consultants in the USA. Michael lives with his wife and daughter in Portland, Oregon.