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Thursday April 10, 2008
xVM and the art of beer maintenance
We all know global warming is occurring, and from individual's
to corporations we can all make a contribution to containing, and eventually reversing climate change,
and save a bit of cash along the way as well. Seems like a win, win deal to me. But now the urgency
has grown, a colleague of mine forwarded on an article about the price of beer. The price of beer I
hear you ask? From the AP
release
Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research, said climate change likely will cause a decline in the production of malting barley
in parts of New Zealand and Australia. Malting barley is a key ingredient of beer.
"It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up," Mr. Salinger
told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention.
Now considering the fact, to borrow a quote the folks over on Goats, that
Beer is the salvation of all mans souls
this is a matter of some urgency for all of us
in the technology industry to address. Luckily for us the most complete suite of technologies, services
and solutions to address these problems is available from Sun.
Virtualization & Consolidation
There is virtualization from the management layer with
Sun xVM Ops Center, to
our hypervisor level offering xVM,
based on the work of the openxVM community, to logical domains
with LDoms on our award
winning CoolThreads servers,
to software level virtualization with Solaris
Zones and desktop level virtualization with Sun
xVM VirtualBox.
Using xVM and our range of
x64
and
Sun Blade Systems you can consolidate
your existing Solaris, Windows and Linux environments into one environment. Personally I still
have a soft spot for the Sun Fire x4600 M2,
but given the choice I would go for the Sun Blade
6000 with Sun Blade x6220 Server Modules
for x64 and x86 consolidation.
Why the Sun Blade 6000? Very simple, because
I can use the same blade chassis with LDoms
and the Sun Blade T6320 Server Module to
consolidate my existing Sparc applications. Of course if you don't feel that xVM is the right choice for your Windows or Linux consolidation all
of our x64 servers are VMWare certified,
and you can get your support and services directly from
Sun.
Sometimes however its not possible to migrate your ISV application to the latest version of
Solaris, we are all aware of the application that
was certified on with database X, jvm y and os z that no one wants to get recertified due to
the costs, but you know that the old machine thats there is just not efficient any more, users
would like better performance that can only come from a hardware upgrade, but the new hardware
doesn't support the old OS - fear not as
Solaris 8 Containers, building
on the excellent work of the Zones
and BrandZ communities over at
OpenSolaris allows you to safely consolidate
applications certified for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9
applications using Solaris 10 Containers, using any of our servers, from the most energy efficent
servers on the market,
Suns CoolThreads servers, to
our high end offerings.
If your not sure if this is for you or uncertain if you want to undertake a migration, why not
get one of our newly launched Sun Sparc
Enterprise T5140 Servers on our Try & Buy program, contact our Professional Services group about our
Enterprise Migration service, and see how much you could save on power, maintenance and support. Your boss will thank you for
saving your business money and more importantly you will be helping to protect the global beer supply, which we all know is the real issue here :).
(2008-04-10 05:43:10.0)
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