Spend three minutes watching Oracle Senior Director of Product Marketing Monica Kumar's whiteboard explanation of "Application-Aware Virtualization" in which she outlines the benefits of Oracle VM Server, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, and Oracle Enterprise Manager, all of which move virtualization from the horse-and-buggy era of server consolidation to the 21st Century era in which the datacenter becomes a service center that can deliver complete solutions on demand efficiently and rapidly.
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"Why Solaris Zones?," one in the Openomics series of blogs, discusses how Zones, which do not require an intrusive hypervisor, can, as an integral part of a running Solaris Instance, meet the same business objective of server consolidation through Virtual Machines, isolated from each other and designed to provide fine-grained control over hardware resources. Blogger Frederic Pariente notes that light-weight Zones devote more of every CPU cycle to useful work; are supported on all hardware platforms supported by Solaris 10 and later; and require no additional software. Further, he contends that the ease of use and manageability of Solaris Zones is the characteristic that delivers the greatest value to users. He provides a couple of scenarios to illustrate his point.
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Seeking to avoid the problems inherent with a "virtualization only" approach to server consolidation, Oracle has developed its Oracle VM Templates, explains Senior VP for Linux Wim Coekaerts in the 22:43 "TechCast Live: Linux and Virtualization" webcast. VM templates are fully preconfigured environments that spare the applications tech the headache and hours of labor necessary to reconfigure an Oracle product stack to conform to the changes intrinsic to a virtualized server. The Oracle VM Template does all of this for the customer. Some 40 or more VM templates are available at the moment, Coekaerts reports, each tailored to a particular application. Furthermore, all of this exists in-house at Oracle. He stresses that virtualization is part of the solution, not the whole solution in itself. Oracle VM Templates fills in the gaps. Updates are as simple as downloading a file. Coekaerts also comments on the Oracle Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.
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Recognizing the possibility for economies in datacenter design and management, Oracle has taken on the challenge of finding those economies in its datacenters worldwide. Using the two-fold approach of optimizing power and reconfiguring datacenter real estate, the company has realized reductions in datacenter space of up to 66 percent and decreases in operating expenditures of
up to 30 percent. The Oracle white paper "Strategies for Solving the Datacenter Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch: Sun Server and Storage Optimization Techniques" details how this was done.
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"How to Move an Oracle Solaris Container," an Oracle white paper, instructs users, system administrators and developers experienced in the use of Oracle Solaris 10 on the procedure for moving an Oracle Solaris 10 container from one computer to another. The white paper leads readers a step at a time through this process, offering both code samples and illustrations.
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