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Safely consolidate multiple applications onto one system and increase your utilization rates with the advanced functionality of Solaris 10. Run Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 applications in Containers on the latest systems and save on power, space, cooling, administrative, and support costs.


With the escalating costs of managing your vast networks of servers and software components, you're looking for new ways to reduce IT infrastructure costs and better manage service levels. Consolidating multiple applications onto a single system means changing the way they're deployed, and this can be a very expensive solution. And that's where Virtualization and the Solaris Operating System comes in. Solaris Containers, part of a comprehensive offering of Sun virtualization technologies which includes Logical Domains (LDoms), uses virtualization to allow you to maintain the one-application-per-server deployment model, while sharing hardware resources.


At a Glance

  • OS virtualization for administrative flexibility
  • Safely run multiple applications on a single system
  • Rapidly scale to meet growing demand
  • Run Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 applications in Containers

How It Works: Solaris 8 Containers

Describes why Sun engineers developed Solaris 8 Containers and how you can use Solaris 8 Containers to move your unmodified Solaris 8 Application and environment to a Container on Solaris 10.

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Flash Video: Tools and Services for upgrading to Solaris 10

This video highlights the benefits of Solaris 10 and various options available for upgrading to Solaris 10.

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Spotlight

Read the transcript from a how-to Net Talk live chat on April 23rd, 2008 to learn how to make a pain-free migration to the Solaris 10 OS and Sun's energy-efficient CoolThreads servers.

Run Your Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Applications on Solaris 10 Today

Demo: Solaris 8 Containers

Demo of moving a Solaris 8 environment to a Container on Solaris 10.

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