SPARC Enterprise servers with Solaris Containers

As businesses attempt to reduce the number of computers in their data centres they run the risk of reducing their architectural flexibility and creating unnecessary administrative complexity. Several Sun server virtualisation technologies exist to help meet these goals, including a feature in the Solaris 10 OS called Solaris 10 Containers.

This form of OS virtualisation uses Containers to isolate applications. Each application believes it has its own copy of Solaris and therefore each application is maintained separately but only one copy of Solaris need to maintained. CPUs, swap, memory and I/O is assigned to each environment, improving system utilisation and reducing running and maintenance costs.

Solaris Containers significantly improves architectural flexibility by possessing the ability to move a workload from one computer to another when necessary. Through Container migration businesses can move their unmodified Solaris 8 application and environment to a Container on Solaris 10.

Contact us for more information on our free Solaris Containers workshop in Computacenter's proof of concept Solutions Centre. Or contact us about full application separation through hard partition dynamic domains.

Quick facts

• Uses the highest system utilisation
• Save on power, cooling, administration and support
• Benefit from the new features of Solaris 10 by migrating your Solaris 8 application to a Solaris 10 container

ShareThis