Over the years businesses have been building large-scale information
systems to solve business problems, with a focus on building scalable
and highly available IT infrastructures that can adapt change.
Providing sufficient availability and performance for business
applications was the primary driver for these efforts. Today, the need
to protect technology investments and provide the same service levels
at a lower price point is shifting the focus to reducing IT
infrastructure cost and improving end user service level management. To
help this effort, the Solaris Operating System includes Solaris
Containers, a mechanism that provides isolation to safely and securely
share resources between software applications or services using
flexible, software-defined boundaries.
This Sun BluePrint article discusses the challenges organizations face
in dealing with resource and workload management. Solaris Containers,
and their constituent technologies (projects, resource pools, Zones)
are introduced and explained. Practical examples that show these
technologies solving resource and
workload management problems are demonstrated.
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