Consolidation Through Virtualization

Web Tier Consolidation


With Sun's Web Tier Consolidation offering, you can gain higher compute density in a smaller footprint with lower power and cooling overhead to streamline your Web infrastructure. And, by consolidating your Web and application servers, you can gain greater throughput in less space, reduce the number of systems by over 50%, and use as little as 1/2 the power of competitive systems - all while improving the performance, management, and security of your IT infrastructure.


Services

Sun offers a Dynamic Infrastructure Solution for Web Services. We provide the consulting to help you architect a consolidated and virtualized IT infrastructure that will maximize availability, increase staff productivity, and speed time to market for new business services.


Platforms

Sun delivers a new industry standard in performance, and energy and space efficiency! Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 & T2000 servers, powered by the breakthrough technology of the UltraSPARC T1 processor, are the first eco-responsible servers - and the most efficient servers for web, database, and application processing. Combined with the Solaris 10 Operating System, Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 & T2000 severs bring dramatic improvements to the responsiveness of your intensive data center tasks while supporting future growth, improving service reliability, and delivering up to 4x the utilization of other operating environments.

Sun Fire x64 servers deliver a new level of industry standard computing to enterprises - the "x64-Factor" - by addressing energy efficiency, reliability, and performance issues head on. Sun x64 systems run Solaris OS, Linux, and Windows, and are over 12% faster than competitive systems powered by AMD Opteron processors, and perform at least 28% better than any x64 Intel-based server in its class! What's more, Sun Fire x64 servers require about 1/3 the power and cost about 50% less than comparable competitive servers.


Storage

Now is not the time for business as usual. It's time to consider Sun for value, access, simplicity and trust. Sun's systems approach to innovative products, technologies and methodologies allow you to manage data and ensures data is identity-enabled, data access is more affordable, data utilization and retrieval are increased. Sun's storage family of hardware and software products are optimized and tightly integrated with the Solaris OS and Sun servers, making the combination ideal for server and storage consolidation. Sun storage includes powerful storage virtualization and provisioning features for maximum efficiency.


Tools

Calculate Coolthreads' potential for yourself using the SWaP metric for measuring system performance and efficiency.

Configure your Sun Fire T2000 to see just how low power consumption requirements are.

Also known as "cooltst" - applies simple heuristics to determine whether a workload from one platform is a reasonable candidate for Sun Fire T2000/T1000 servers.

Software

Increase your server utilization, efficiency, and ROI while shrinking your server footprint. For free. Logical Domains (LDoms) is the most open virtualization technology available, and it's free. Unlike proprietary virtualization technologies, LDoms can save you nearly $10,000 per server. The more servers you virtualize, the more you save and benefit.

Solaris 10 is the one operating system where real innovation continues, and with more than 600 features, is the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever built. We've designed some incredibly powerful and innovative features into Solaris 10 to help you do two things: reduce costs and reduce complexity. Put innovation to work for you and see what an OS can do for your bottom line.

Designed specifically to address the challenges associated with managing system infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, N1 System Manager enables you to discover, provision, monitor, update, and manage hundreds of Sun Fire x64 and SPARC servers from a single management console anywhere on the web ? helping you speed up system deployment and reduce operating costs.

Sun N1 Service Provisioning System simplifies application lifecycle management by rapidly provisioning business services that span multiple tiers--J2EE Application servers, Web servers, and databases--across heterogeneous environments. It offers businesses a standard method of deploying business services and tracking changes throughout the deployment process, and includes and audit trail to help you meet regulatory compliance.

Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java System Suites dramatically reduce software license charges and operational costs. This no cost, sophisticated infrastructure software helps reduce cost and complexity throughout your data center, providing greater overall integration and system monitoring, increased security and manageability, and improved performance.

VMware emulates different types of PC hardware, including their peripherals, and it is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms. Consolidating Web and application servers to Sun systems and virtualization technologies like Solaris 10 Containers and VMWare offers high compute density in a small footprint, easing data center space, power, and cooling while providing the ability to scale your Web infrastructure cost-effectively.

Reduce the complexity of consolidation with Sun Managed Services. These services provide interim, onsite expertise while your staff gets up to speed after consolidating your Web infrastructure, allowing you to maintain control of your business critical-systems with flexible services that fit your requirements. Sun Management Services are aimed at helping you enhance the business value of your IT investment through improved operational efficiency and service levels--allowing you to maintain as much or as little control over your IT operations and infrastructure as you want.