Virtualization can help with the challenges posed by rapid growth and increasing costs of energy. Sun's virtualization solutions have been expanded to offer new products and services, including LDoms (logical domains) and the planned support of Xen on SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).

In 2007, Sun will deliver fully supported Xen functionality in an update to the Solaris 10 OS. With this support, concurrent operating systems such as Solaris 10 OS, Linux and Microsoft Windows will be able to run as "guests" on a Solaris 10 OS-based Virtual Machine. Since Xen's hypervisor is based on the Solaris 10 OS, customers can use the unique features of Solaris 10 OS such as Predictive Self-Healing, DTrace, Solaris ZFS and Solaris Trusted Extensions, even if a customer is not running their applications on the Solaris 10 OS.

LDoms is a virtualization technology for Sun FireTM T1000 and Sun FireTM T2000 servers with CoolThreadsTM technology that lets customers run multiple operating systems simultaneously with Solaris Containers. It helps customers to reduce server footprint while increasing server utilization and datacenter efficiency.

Sun has also extended VMware ESX 3.0.1 to the Sun FireTM X4600 server and Sun BladeTM modular systems.

In addition, Sun is also offering a two-day collaborative session designed to assess a customer's current business requirements, match them to technology and determine the next steps to take. This complimentary workshop (estimated $10,000 USD value) delivers a high-level TCO analysis that estimates the potential long-term savings for the customer.

"As server sprawl accelerates and power and cooling costs grow, we see an opportunity to apply our years of expertise in network computing/virtualization to help customers solve these challenges. The Solaris OS is the foundation of our approach, and we build on it with Sun servers, storage, services and partner services as well," said John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president, Systems Group.

Other parts of Sun\'s virtualization solutions are:

• Sun Fire x64 Servers: "Galaxy" Sun Fire X4000 server line powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors and the Solaris 10 OS. (See article [17162] for details on the Sun FireTM X4000 M2 series servers running on AMD.)

• Life Cycle Services for Virtualization: consulting, education and support services to help architect, implement and manage a customer's virtualization solution investment. [...read more...]
  
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