System Management: All things System Management

Scalent recently announced support not only of Sun's highly innovative CoolThreads Servers including the latest T5140 and T5240 but also for LDoms the CoolThreads Hypervisor. More details can be found here. With all the noise about x64 hypervisors its worth remembering the arguments for LDoms can be pretty compelling - especially on the budget! I'm sure Scalent won't mind me quoting them:

LDoms is a powerful, open source, hardware virtualization and partitioning technology, and is provided as standard at no extra cost on UltraSPARC T1, T2 and T2 Plus-based servers. The latest SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers can support up to 128 LDoms per server, with superb granularity, all at no cost. Unlike proprietary virtualization technologies, LDoms can save customers up to $3,600 per system.