virtualization with stability
I look to VMware for that. They seem to have been in business a long time
at it, or at least long enough time in a young market. Forget experiments
like QEMU and Xen which are still working towards being commercial grade.
But VMware doesn't have anything that runs on Solaris 10. (1)
I *need* to run multiple revs of Solaris across the board and that includes
at least one Solaris 2.5.1 x86 server. What am I stuck with here ?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS 64-bit at $1499 ?!?!
see https://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/
I mean this is just insane. Don't tell me people actually fork out that sort
of money to Red Hat for an inferior OS. In order to run VMware I need to
get a license of some Linux and then, and only then, am I able to run my
virtual Solaris servers? ( if you think Windows is an option than I start
singing la la la I can't hear you ).
The objective is to get this sort of stability under load :
$ uname -a
SunOS enterprise 5.9 Generic_118558-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
$ uptime
5:46pm up 593 day(s), 4:26, 7 users, load average: 0.23, 0.32, 0.34
This may *appear* to be outside of the scope of the OpenSolaris project but
I disagree. I can not think of anything more important today than the
ability to virtualize beyond Zones that all run the same rev of Solaris.
How else does one have five builds of Solaris going at the same time? I
don't see a way other than filling a rack with 1U gear.
Does anyone have thoughts on this issue?
Dennis Clarke
(1) another year gone by and Lotus Notes/Domino doesn't either
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