Server Virtualization

last updated on 2009-03-27

Server virtualization divides one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments, each running its own instance of the OS and applications. It can reduce space requirements, power consumption, cooling costs, licensing fees, and environmental impact while boosting reliability and performance.

New The Sun Server Virtualization Solutions web page provides links to resources such as videos, white papers, product information, trade-in and try-and-buy programs, and more.

Here are additional resources:

• Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server Virtualization Technology (August 2007), a Sun BluePrints article that explains why virtualization technology is key to transforming an organization's server, storage, and network devices into a shared, global pool of resources and discusses why Solaris Containers and Logical Domains are of particular importance because of the low overhead they impose on the host server platform

• New Net Talk Webcast: Server Virtualization Choice With Sun, a webcast that describes Sun's server and OS virtualization solutions, and explains why they are the ideal platform for virtualization and addressing key business and IT challenges

• Server virtualization entries in the Waterfalls blog:

  • New Server Virtualization Concepts
  • New Server Virtualization Techniques
  • New Server Virtualization - LDOMs
  • New Server Virtualization - Using LDoms on Sun Fire T5440
  • New Server Virtualization - Creating IO Domains on Sun Fire T5440

• Sun blogs that describe why storage matters with server virtualization:

  • New Got (enough) memory?, a blog by Jeff Victor that explains why server virtualization makes DBAs nervous and what to do about it
  • New Server Virtualization's Impact on Storage, a blog by Taylor Allis, which maintains the true impact is yet to be determined

• Articles on enterprisestorageforum.com*:

  • New Helping Storage Keep Up With Server Virtualization*, which looks at some of the issues surrounding data center consolidation and the impact it has on your storage architecture
  • New Backing Up Virtual Servers is Tougher than You Think*, which says backing up and restoring virtual servers could be difficult because of the extensive use of scripting

• New Virtualization--a flexible, portable solution platform*, an article in Enterprise Management Quarterly*, that explains how server virtualization solves the problems that arise when three-year hardware upgrade cycles don't overlap with software upgrade cycles