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- Understanding the Basics About Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 OS
- This paper aims to identify the basics of Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 Operating System so that Sun's developers, system administrators, ISVs, partners and customers will know how to address common tasks related to this technology. Additionally, it addresses how Solaris Containers should be used and what the limitations...
- Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Qualification Best Practices for Application Support in Non-Global Zones
- Solaris Containers technology offers a virtualized runtime environment that has established limits for an application's consumption of system resources, such as CPUs. Solaris Containers has two components: Resource Management and Solaris Zones. Solaris Zones partitioning technology is used to virtualize operating system services and to provide an isolated and secure...
- Tags: Best Practice, Solaris Containers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server Virtualization Technology
- Virtualization technology is a key to transforming an IT organization's server, storage, and network devices into a shared, global pool of resources. This can help reduce space, power, and cooling requirements while simultaneously helping make datacenters more flexible and agile. The two server virtualization technologies discussed in this paper -...
- Tags: Strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Server, Virtualization Technology, Solaris Containers, Sun Solaris, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Practical Security Using Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 OS - Part I
- In the first paper of this two-part series, the author would like to highlight the Solaris 10 security model using containers and zones, combined with tools and technologies that are available by default in the Solaris 10 OS. The author shows how these can provide customers with an enhanced ability...
- Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Author, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Security, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Utility Tools for Management of Solaris Containers
- The Solaris 10 Operating System introduced zone-oriented virtualization and partition models on the Solaris platform. These models require zone-specific performance measurements to instrument zones at the system level. Moreover, applications and services are hosted within the isolated environment provided by the zones. How these applications perform needs to be inspected...
- Tags: Tool, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Solaris Containers - What They Are and How to Use Them
- Over the years businesses have been building large-scale information systems to solve business problems, with a focus on building scalable and highly available IT infrastructures that can adapt change. Providing sufficient availability and performance for business applications was the primary driver for these efforts. Today, the need to protect technology...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Creating Self-Balancing Solutions With Solaris 10 Containers
- Transactions of some kind are an integral part of every organization, and must be completed on time if the business is to operate effectively. Chaos - and damage - can be caused if critical transactions are not handled efficiently. System administrators need to find ways to balance workloads across computing...
- Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Solaris 10 Operating System, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Solaris Containers
- This paper provides an overview of Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 Operating System OS, with guidelines for running a non-RAC Oracle database in a container. Oracle 9i R2 and 10g R1 databases (RAC and non-RAC) have been certified to run in a global zone. The paper concentrates on running...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Best Practice, Oracle Database, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Sun's Solaris 10 for x86: A Platform for Enterprise Applications
- Sun's Solaris 10 operating system is now available for both SPARC and x86 platforms. Its new features give software partners multiple reasons to update their current Solaris applications written for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9. This IDC white paper examines the Solaris 10 operating system, its new features - including...
- Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Enterprise Application, International Data Group, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Performance Isolation of a Misbehaving Virtual Machine With Xen, VMware and Solaris Containers
- In recent years, there have been a number of papers comparing the performance of different virtualization environments for x86 such as Xen, VMware and UML. In this paper, the authors present the results of running a variety of different misbehaving applications under three different virtualization environments VMware, Xen, and Solaris...
- Tags: Performance, Xen, Clarkson University, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Sun Solaris, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-02-11
- Verification Software (exe)
- Guidelines for implementing OLE controls and control containers that will interoperate well with other controls and control containers. Specifically, it defines the minimum set of functionality in terms of interfaces, methods, and features that are required of OLE controls and control containers to accomplish seamless and useful interoperability. This version...
- Tags: Software, Container, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2007-09-14
- Workload Consolidation on Sun Fire UltraSPARC Servers Using Solaris Containers
- Consolidation of enterprise applications from multiple small servers onto larger servers has become a proven means to reduce costs and better manage system resource utilization. When combined with breakthrough multi-threading UltraSPARC IV processor technology introduced in Sun's midrange server platforms, customers have a dynamic proposition of creating a secure, consolidated...
- Tags: Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Sun Solaris, Processors, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Nebelwerfer
- blog rootHouse of Solaris IT FriendsSolaris Administration Solaris Networking Solaris Directory Service - LDAPSolaris Perfomance Tuning Solaris Security Solaris System Recover - JumpStart
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, felicidadegraca@..., Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2005-06-16
- Faster, Safer Oracle Data Migration - Part 2: Using Portable Data Containers to Migrate Data in Oracle 9i Databases
- This is the second part of a three part series describing the use of portable data containers PDCs to move Oracle 9i and 10g database data between database instances running on any combination of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and x86 Linux platforms. This part compares traditional Oracle exp-imp data migration with...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Migration, Oracle9i, Oracle9i Database, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-02-11
- Deploying Sun Java Enterprise System on the Sun Fire T2000 Server Using Solaris Containers
- Improving the manageability and efficiency of enterprise infrastructure services poses a significant challenge to many organizations. The problem is compounded by the proliferation of individual servers used to run key enterprise applications including directory, portal, identity, mail, and calendar services. A recent Gartner report indicates that the power, space, and...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, Sun Java, Sun Fire, Sun Java Enterprise System, Enterprise Infrastructure Service, Sun Solaris, Servers, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-10-02
- Getting familiar with some of the new features of Solaris 10
- Solaris 10, the latest release of the operating system fromSun MicroSystems includes many upgraded and enhanced features and a few brandnew features. This article will focus on a few of the new features of theoperating system.Solaris 10 is available on both x86 platforms and Sparcplatforms. The implementation of the operating...
- Tags: Jonathan A. Sinclair, operating system, Solaris Containers, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris 10
- Technical articles 2006-09-18
- Containers Views in NNM V7.51 Advanced Edition
- This webcast will provide information about Containers Views configuration, setups and implementation. The attendee will learn the definition and overview of containers and how to create them. The presenter provides an overview of root container, and container reference and also examples of container views.
- Tags: Container, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Sun Solaris Operating Environment
- This paper introduces the Sun™ Solaris™ 2.6 operating environment, the Solaris family of servers, and Solaris software for developing, deploying, and managing an information network. An introduction to the vision Sun Microsystems has for information technology and web computing is contained within this chapter. A summary of the...
- Tags: Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris Operating Environment, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers
- Solaris ZFS and Microsoft Server 2003 NTFS: File System Performance
- The Solaris 10 06/06 Operating System OS introduces a new data management technology - the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and simplified...
- Tags: NTFS, Performance, File System, Microsoft Corp., Sun Solaris, Data Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
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