Sun Virtualization Technologies Engineering Webcast

http://www.snpnet.com/customer_pub/sun/isv_virtualization/

Join Sun engineers to learn how innovation in virtualization and management technologies have come together to deliver comprehensive, cross-platform virtualization and datacenter-on-demand management solutions across heterogenous environments.

Posted at 09:34AM Apr 22, 2008 by SDN Program News Staff: LH in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Solaris 8 and 9 Containers

Solaris 8 Containers, formerly known as Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, can help you run Solaris 8 applications, unchanged, on the latest SPARC systems and the Solaris 10 OS. The download for Solaris 9 Containers is coming soon. Check out the video webcasts, including an overview and a demo.

Posted at 09:00AM Apr 10, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Blog: Serving Sun Ray Clients With VirtualBox

Imagine you have some Sun Ray clients and you'd like to use them with some hardware that doesn't support the Solaris OS. This blog shows you what to do.

Posted at 09:00AM Apr 09, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Blogs: Understanding the Virtual Desktop Lifecycle

These blogs by Dirk Grobler delve into the details of virtual desktops, including deployment, ingredients, and more:

- Part One

- Part Two

Posted at 09:00AM Apr 07, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Building a VDI Demo With Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0

Here's an updated cookbook for a demo based on the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software using the new desktop broker, Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0.

Posted at 09:00AM Mar 20, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Wiki: Installing Unpriviledged Domains With xVM

Scroll down to the January tech tips on the Recently Updated page: There's a tech tip on installing a paravirtualized (PV) unpriviledged domain (domU) for the Solaris OS. Another tip talks about installing a Linux Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) domU on xVM.

Posted at 08:00AM Mar 13, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Wiki: Installing Unpriviledged Domains With xVM

A BigAdmin reader has posted a lot of great tech tips on the wiki. One tip is on installing a paravirtualized (PV) unprivileged domain (domU) for the Solaris OS. Another tip from the same author provides information about installing a Linux Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) domU on xVM.

Posted at 09:00AM Feb 20, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Wiki: Installing a Microsoft Windows Guest on xVM

This wiki page from a reader provides information about installing a Windows guest on xVM.

Posted at 09:00AM Feb 11, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Community Wiki Tips: xVM Shortcuts for Noobs

This wiki page from Henry Pepper is for Sun xVM newbies, and it provides basic foo on getting started. p.s. Henry, wherever you are, don't forget you can get BigAdmin goodies for your contributions -- and thanks for all this great stuff you're adding to the wiki.

Posted at 09:00AM Feb 08, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Virtualization Resource Center for Sys Admins

Rick has a new blog about virtualization, and it's better than virtual reality. When you're done with Rick's blog, check out the BigAdmin Virtualization Info Center to see what's new in server, OS, storage, desktop, application, and network virtualization.

Posted at 09:00AM Feb 04, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Solaris Operating System Hardware Virtualization Product Architecture

Here's a paper exploring the underlying hardware architecture and software needed for hardware virtualization. The author looks at CPU hardware architecture limitations for virtualizing CPU services and their software workarounds. This Sun BluePrints document (in pdf) also discusses software architecture for various types of virtualization.

Posted at 09:00AM Jan 18, 2008 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

VEE '08

March 5-7
Seattle, WA, USA
The 2008 ACM International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments is a first-rate research forum that brings together leading practitioners and researchers in the broad area of virtualization.

Posted at 06:00AM Dec 14, 2007 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Sun xVM Ops Center

Sun xVM Ops Center brings together management of Linux and Solaris
systems under one unified view. Sign up for a bi-weekly webinar. For more info, see the sun.com story.

Posted at 09:00AM Dec 06, 2007 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Demo With Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0 (Beta)

Here's a cookbook for building a demo based on the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software using Sun's new desktop broker, Sun Virtual Desktop Connector 1.0.

Posted at 12:00AM Dec 04, 2007 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Sun xVM

Sun xVM is a family of technologies that addresses both desktop and server virtualization. It leverages work from open source communities like Xen and is being built on proven Sun technology. Find out more about the Open Source community that develops the technology from which Sun derives the Sun xVM products.

Posted at 06:00AM Nov 21, 2007 by cs, managing editor in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]