New Technologies

There are a number of Server technologies to assist in Consolidation & Virtualisation

Solaris 10 Containers

Runs on SPARC & X86 hardware (AMD/Intel)

Solaris Containers & Zones provide Application Security and Isolation

Increase horizontal scalability for single threaded Applications

Containers provide guaranteed resource availability

Latest Sun CoolThread servers can offer Container subscriptions on a per-thread allocation model, with 64 threads servers available!

VMware ESX Server

Host Windows and Linux VMware guests

Manages different OS images and versions on single ESX instance

VMware ESX provides guest Security and Isolation

Excellent monitoring and Operational ability

Granular Subscription offering guaranteed resource availability