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    All Suns Containers, Great and Small

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    Jason Brooks
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    October 23, 2006
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      Last week, I attended the launch of Suns “Project Blackbox,” an intriguing new product offering that squeezes a couple of hundred rack-mounted servers—along with their requisite cooling systems and cabling—into the sort of container you see loaded on trucks or stacked on ships.

      The quick tour I took through the Project Blackbox container set up in the parking lot of Suns Menlo Park, Calif., campus was certainly impressive. But at least as impressive—and much more broadly accessible—were the sorts of containers that Sun outlined in the virtualization presentation that kicked off the day.

      Sun officials highlighted for the assembled members of the press the companys slate of virtualization offerings—which range from physical partitioning on Suns largest machines to new logical partitioning capabilities on its smaller CoolThreads servers to operating-system-level virtualization using Solaris 10s Containers feature. Weve been impressed with Solaris Containers in our tests so far (see my review of Solaris 10 6/06 on Page 41), and Im looking forward to testing Suns CoolThreads logical partitioning.

      The compelling thing about Suns virtualization story is its flexibility with regard to operating systems and applications. Suns SPARC-based partitioning can allow Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux to coexist with Solaris on the same box, and Sun pitched support for VMwares systems on its x64 servers as an answer for carving out a spot for Microsoft Windows.

      Sun officials also talked about forthcoming support for Xen virtualization on Suns x64 systems. When Xen eventually becomes part of Solaris, it will offer the same sort of logical partitioning on Advanced Micro Devices Opteron machines that Sun described for its “Niagara” boxes. Also not quite ready for prime time but more mature at this point than Solaris Xen support is Solaris support for Linux applications via branded Containers.

      Advanced Technologies Analyst Jason Brooks can be reached at jason_brooks@ziffdavis.com.

      WWWeb Resources

      Presenting …

      Watch the same “Project Blackbox” unveiling we did www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp

      Get into the zone

      Suns Web zone for virtualization www.sun.com/datacenter/consolidation/virtualization

      Zen and the art of OpenSolaris

      Suns OpenSolaris page on Xen

      www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen

      Jason Brooks
      As Editor in Chief of eWEEK Labs, Jason Brooks manages the Labs team and is responsible for eWEEK's print edition. Brooks joined eWEEK in 1999, and has covered wireless networking, office productivity suites, mobile devices, Windows, virtualization, and desktops and notebooks. Jason's coverage is currently focused on Linux and Unix operating systems, open-source software and licensing, cloud computing and Software as a Service. Follow Jason on Twitter at jasonbrooks, or reach him by email at jbrooks@eweek.com.
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