How Australian IaaS OrionVM uses FreeBSD
summary
OrionVM runs FreeBSD as a first‑class guest OS, uses OpenZFS for primary storage (clients report >95% space savings on one legacy document system), offers FreeNAS and pfSense templates tied into the same layer‑2 network, supports live attach/detach of disks and ISOs, and scales a single VM across servers with TidalScale to ≈13 TB RAM and hundreds of vCPUs. Deployments are production‑grade and interoperable with Linux tooling; ZFS snapshots, replication and native integration drive the operational wins.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:31Dedication
- 1:54Agenda
- 3:59My BSD background
- 4:51Gnomenclature
- 6:01Quick Orion VM Overview
- 6:58Orion VM's Architecture
- 8:22FreeBSD Guests
- 11:38AsiaBSDCon 2019 Template Update
- 12:52Why Use a FreeBSD Guest?
- 14:03(Un)helpful Advice
- 15:08Why I Use and Recommend It
- 17:35FreeBSD for Cloud Storage
- 24:15FreeBSD for VPC Storage: FreeNAS
- 25:28FreeBSD for Securing Deployments
- 26:37Summary
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