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Articles for the keywords: zones
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06 Feb 2013
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Solaris 11: Basic Tool for Building Your Developer Cloud [29684]
Behind the Scenes in Designing the Developer Cloud for OPN Gold Members
Oracle Solaris 11 is the foundation for the developer cloud designed for OPN Gold members who use it to qualify their applications on Solaris 11, Orgad Kimchi posts. This cloud platform provides an intuitive user interface for VM provisioning by selecting VM images pre-installed with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 or Oracle WebLogic Server 12c, he continues, noting the inclusion of simple file upload and file download mechanisms. Several Solaris 11 cloud technologies were employed in the building of this platform, such as Oracle Solaris 11 Network Virtualization, Oracle Solaris Zones, ZFS encryption and cloning capability, and NFS server inside Solaris 11 zone.
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26 Jan 2013
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How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones [29495]
OTN Article by Orgad Kimchi
This "article"]
starts with a brief overview of Hadoop and follows with an example of setting up a Hadoop cluster with a NameNode, a secondary
NameNode, and three DataNodes using Oracle Solaris Zones.
The following are benefits of using Oracle Solaris Zones for a Hadoop cluster:
- Fast provision of new cluster members using the zone cloning feature
- Very high network throughput between the zones for data node replication
- Optimized disk I/O utilization for better I/O performance with ZFS built-in compression
- Secure data at rest using ZFS encryption
Orgad Kimchi is the article author.
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24 Jan 2013
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Improvements in Image Packaging System for Oracle Solaris 11 a Welcome Change [29487]
Tightly Integrated, Single-tier Packaging/ Patching Architecture Eases Administrative Tasks
The Image Packaging System (IPS) for Oracle Solaris 11 is a single tier packaging architecture that replaces the previous SVR4-based dual tier packaging and patching architecture. Gerry Haskins sees it as a stellar element of the OS, leveraging ZFS Root (/), Boot Environments, SMF, Zones, and other Solaris technologies. Monthly consolidated bug fix Support Repository Updates (SRUs) now provide a regular predictable cadence of bug fix release baselines, greatly simplifying patch management. In his overview of the IPS Haskins identifies a number of the more common Solaris 11 / IPS issues that he, as a novice user, has encountered in since the release.
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17 Jan 2013
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A Procedure for Migrating Zones on Shared Storage [29380]
Jeff Victor Advises Against Use in Production Environments
Zones on Shared Storage (ZOSS) enables users to store Oracle Solaris Zones on shared storage, Jeff Victor posts, so that users can perform quick and easy migration of a zone from one system to another. He offers the caution that the ability to use ZOSS to store a zone on a local disk is very useful for a lab environment, but not so useful for production, advising his readers not to regularly move disk drives among computers. Victor presents the nine steps in his migration procedure and includes the commands and outputs for each of them.
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17 Jan 2013
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Virtualization Performance on Joyent's Public Cloud: Zones, KVM, Xen [29391]
Assessing the Options with Brendan Gregg
Brendan Gregg explains the virtualization technologies Joyent uses to run its high performance public cloud: Zones and KVM on SmartOS. He considers the performance of these technologies from the aspects of characteristics, block diagrams, internals, and results, explaining that Zones adds no overhead, whereas Xen (no longer in use at Joyent) and KVM do, which could limit network throughput to as much as a quarter of its potential. Joyent customers are therefore encouraged to deploy on Zones to ensure better performance, observability and simplicity. This may entail compiling their applications for SmartOS or, if they insist on running Linux or Windows, employing hardware virtualization (KVM).
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