The biggest gotcha in my environment would have to be the large number of legacy, unmaintained applications. Many of these applications are built around older application frameworks that are not supported on anything other than Solaris 8 (or 9), and the developers that wrote them are long gone so we can't easily port them to newer, supported frameworks. I have a feeling that even though the sol8 zones will look like Solaris 8, that my ISVs will use that as a loophole to get out of support.
The heavy use of VxVM will also making using them tricky. -Matt On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 10/9/07, Matt Walburn <matt at railwave.com> wrote: >> 4. Lastly, "Etude" is fantastic, but true sun4v for Solaris 8 and >> 9 would be divine for consolidating all of my many hundred older >> systems. > > What do you see as the gaps between S10+Etude vs. S8 or S9 directly > without the compatibility shim? The key things I see are: > > - Device drivers that aren't compatible (e.g. VxVM 3.x) > - NFS serving > - Things that use undocumented API's (e.g. lsof reads from /dev/kmem) > > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
