Customers are looking to vendors for ways to address the pervasive data center virtualization and ever increasing demands for scale. Sun’s Project Crossbow (Sun’s Crossbow) and Force10 together are bringing a unique answer to the market in an open standards approach. Sun and Force10 are able to demonstrate to customers that VLAN Automation as a first step into complete Network Automation is within reach and does not require proprietary hardware or software stacks.
To be sure, virtualization cuts real estate costs drastically since the practice eliminates the need for incremental growth of datacenters. But, if users create one virtual machine after another, they are doing little to ease the task of provisioning, monitoring, analyzing and optimizing workload performance across both their remaining physical and growing virtual resources. That's where Sun Ops Center 2.5 comes in handy, as Jean Bozman, Gary Chen and Mary Turner point out in their brief IDC paper, "Sun Ops Center 2.5: Managing Mixed Environments in Virtualized Sun Infrastructure."
Learn about the new features of the next-generation Intel Xeon processor for the expandable server segment codenamed Nehalem-EX, which is designed for mission- and business-critical applications and data in demanding environments. A Sun-sponsored white paper discusses how the Solaris ecosystem and these next-generation processors create an intelligent and adaptive computing environment. This paper is not technically-oriented, but rather a piece for business and IT decision-makers in medium and large companies.
"Demystifying Enterprise-Class Server Virtualization," a Sun BluePrints Online paper by Chad Prucha defines and classifies the various subtypes of server virtualization and provides an overview of the various enterprise-class server virtualization offerings available today from Sun Microsystems and other vendors.
Thanks to Sun's Project Crossbow, which enables full virtualization of the Solaris network stack, network interface cards (NICs) can now be virtualized into one or more virtual NICs (VNICs). These VNICs can then be individually configured and tuned to take advantage of the physical NIC's in-hardware capabilities and workload needs. So writes Ben Rockwood in his article for Search DataCenter.com, "Solaris Project Crossbow Offers Virtualized Network Management."
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