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The web presents huge opportunities for small and medium businesses that have the speed and flexibility to take advantage of it. Accelerate your growth and cut costs with web virtualization from Sun—leveraging the breathtaking power and efficiency of our web servers and open source software.

About This Solution
Sun Innovations at Work
System Sizing Guide
Reference Materials

Key Benefits

  • Virtualization speeds deployment of new Web services with efficient, scalable Sun CoolThreads and x64/x86 servers
  • The open source Solaris 10 OS, with Solaris Containers built in, delivers incredible capabilities at no extra cost
  • Choice of OS includes Windows, Solaris, and Linux

About This Solution

For faster Web deployment and enhanced flexibility, Sun offers both x86/x64 and CoolThreads server solutions:
  • For x86/x64 environments, we recommend a low-cost, high-performance Sun x86/x64 server running the Solaris 10 OS and free, preloaded Apache Web server software, plus external direct-attached storage or SAN storage
  • For high-throughput, energy-efficient solutions, we recommend a Sun CoolThreads rack or blade server running the free, open source Solaris 10 OS with Solaris Containers, and Apache, Lighttpd, or Sun Java Web Server, plus external direct-attached storage or SAN storage
  • For maximum compatibility with Microsoft software applications, Sun x86/x64 servers can virtualize the Microsoft IIS Web server or Apache using Microsoft Virtual Server
“ We are consistently looking for innovative ways to scale and meet the rapidly growing demands of our business. By upgrading to Sun Fire T2000 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers running the open source Solaris operating system, we have been able to consolidate our existing Apache Web servers using Solaris Containers at the rate of 8:1.”
— "Kip" Turco; Senior Vice President, Engineering and Operations; Motricity.

Business Issues

  • Increased capital and operating expenses needed to grow the Web infrastructure
  • The demand for faster deployment of servers for new web services that meet customer's needs and generate revenue
  • Maintaining high availability to sustain and grow your business

Business Results

  • Deploy up to 50 virtual Web servers using a single Sun CoolThreads or x64 server—significantly reducing capital costs
  • A virtual Web server can be deployed in minutes—adding flexibility and speeding time to market—using Solaris Containers and Web server software on a Sun CoolThreads or x64 server
  • Higher availability and far less maintenance, to keep your business running at peak efficiency 24/7/365

Sun Innovations at Work

Sun CoolThreads Servers Offer Unique Capabilities for Web Virtualization
  • Record-breaking performance: The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server running the Solaris 10 OS and the Sun Java System web Server set a new world record in performance and performance-per-watt on the industry-standard measure of web server performance. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server outperformed competitive servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and equipped with the latest Intel quad-core and AMD dual-core processors. These results confirm the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server as the highest-performing and most efficient platform on the planet for deployment of web services.
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  • One Sun Fire T1000 server, combined with multiple Apache web servers each running in a separate Solaris Container, provided total throughput of 12,597 HTTP ops/s. This result demonstrates that a Sun Fire T1000 server provides price/performance and performance/watts benefits to replace a two-processor Intel Xeon Processor-based Dell PowerEdge 1850. Solaris Containers provides a means of creating virtualized operating system environments within a single instance of Solaris, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system.
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  • Pre-optimized Apache web server with Solaris, for security and performance with product specific links
  • Pre-installed Solaris with integrated Solaris Containers, to support web virtualization

Sun x64 Servers Offer Unique Capabilities for Web Virtualization
  • Unique standard support for 4 GbE, at no additional cost, which allows for higher-bandwidth connection to the Internet
  • Built-in encryption support for remote management of Web servers
  • Choice of Solaris Containers or Microsoft Virtual Server support for Web virtualization
  • Pre-optimized Apache web server with Solaris, for security and performance with product specific links
  • Choice of preinstalled Solaris with integrated Solaris Containers, to support web virtualization

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System Sizing Guide

Sun offers this Web Virtualization Solution in a full range of performance levels, form factors, and pricing to match your needs.

Entry Level Choices
Application Form Factor Sizing Needs Products

Solaris 10 Containers running Apache		 Rack 1-20 web servers
Sun Fire T2000
From $9,995
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21-44 web servers
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120
From $13,995
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Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
From $14,995
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Blade 1-20 web servers
Sun Blade T6300
From $4,295
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21-44 web servers
Sun Blade T6320

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Solaris 10 (x64) Containers running Apache
Rack 1-10 web servers
Sun Fire X4150
From $2,495
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11-25 web servers
Sun Fire X4150
From $2,495
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26-50 web servers
Sun Fire X4450
From $8,495
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Blade 1-10 web servers
Sun Blade X6220
From $3,995
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11-25 web servers
Sun Blade X6250
From $3,295
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External Storage Options Direct Attach SAS RAID: 365 GB to 36 TB
Sun StorageTek 2530 Array
From $6,430
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FC Attach Fibre Channel RAID: 365 GB to 36 TB
Sun StorageTek 2540 Array
From $6,555
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IP Attach ISCSI RAID: 365 GB to 27 GB Sun StorageTek 2510 Array

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Reference Materials

Here's the drill-down on Sun's web virtualization solution:

Top News Stories

Sun T5120/T5220 Servers Win Server of the Year Award
Sun Gets It Right with Niagara 2 Servers

Data Sheets

The Solaris OS and Virtualization
Apache home page
Sun Fire T2000 Server
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server
Sun Blade T6320 Server
Sun Fire X4100 Server
Sun Fire X4150 Server
Sun Fire X4450 Server
Sun Blade X6220 Server
Sun Blade X6250 Server
Sun Blade X6250 Server
Sun StorageTek 2510Array
Sun StorageTek 2530 Array
Sun StorageTek 2540 Array

Featured Product Gallery

Here are just three of the systems designed for small and medium businesses.
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Sun featured products: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Server, Sun Fire T1000 Server, and Sun Fire X4150 Server

White Papers

Building a Secure Web Infrastructure with Sun
Web Consolidation on the Sun Fire T1000 Server Using Solaris Containers

Success Stories

See how other small and medium businesses are moving ahead with Sun innovations.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1.
Q:
What are Solaris Containers?
A:
Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) are an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology first made available as part of the Solaris 10 OS. A Solaris Container is the combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones. Zones act as completely isolated virtual servers within a single operating system instance. By consolidating multiple sets of application services onto one system—by placing each into isolated virtual server containers—system administrators can reduce costs and provide all the same protection of separate machines, on a single machine.
2.
Q:
How is Solaris Containers different from VMware ESX or Logical Domains (LDoms)?
A:
Solaris Containers provides a virtual environment to run applications separately from each other while sharing the same Solaris 10 OS. VMware ESX is a hypervisor that runs on bare x86/x64 systems and allows multiple operating systems to be installed on the same hardware system. The operating systems each see their own virtual hardware independent from others. LDoms technology provides the hypervisor for Sun CoolThreads servers, allowing multiple separate operating systems to take advantage of the 32 to 64 hardware threads available in the CoolThreads server.
3.
Q:
Which servers are best for me—Rack or Blade?
A:
Here is a basic guide:
- Choose Blade servers if you require:
  • Simplified maintenance, with quick and easy addition of new servers
  • High density deployment, with at least 4 servers and expansion to 10 or more servers in the future
  • Simplified cable management of multiple servers
- Choose Rack servers if you require:
  • Servers of different compute capacity (1-processor, 2-processor, 4-processor, 8-processor)
  • Only a few servers (less than 4) in one location
  • More than 2 I/O slots in a server, especially when PCI-E or PCI-X cards are needed
  • Servers with more than 128GB of memory

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