A busy week for zones
This is turning out to be a busy week for zones related news. First,
the newest version of Solaris 10, the 8/07 release, is now
available.
This release includes the improved resource management
integration with zones that has been available for a while now in
the OpenSolaris nevada code base and which I blogged about
here. It also includes other zones enhancements such as
brandz and IP instances. Jeff Victor has a nice description
of all of these new zone features on his
blog.
If that wasn't enough, we have started to talk about our latest project, code named Etude. This is a new brand for zones, building on the brandz framework, and allows you to run a Solaris 8 environment within a zone. We have been working on this project for a good part of the year and it is exciting to finally be able to talk more about it. With Etude you can quickly consolidate those dusty old Solaris 8 SPARC systems, running on obsolete hardware, onto current generation, energy efficient, systems. Marc Hamilton, VP of Solaris Marketing, describes this project at a high level on his blog but for more details, Dan Price, our project lead, wrote up a really nice overview on his blog. If you have old systems still running Solaris 8 and would like an easy path to Solaris 10 and to newer hardware, then this project might be what you need.
If that wasn't enough, we have started to talk about our latest project, code named Etude. This is a new brand for zones, building on the brandz framework, and allows you to run a Solaris 8 environment within a zone. We have been working on this project for a good part of the year and it is exciting to finally be able to talk more about it. With Etude you can quickly consolidate those dusty old Solaris 8 SPARC systems, running on obsolete hardware, onto current generation, energy efficient, systems. Marc Hamilton, VP of Solaris Marketing, describes this project at a high level on his blog but for more details, Dan Price, our project lead, wrote up a really nice overview on his blog. If you have old systems still running Solaris 8 and would like an easy path to Solaris 10 and to newer hardware, then this project might be what you need.
