Virtualization allows consolidation of servers to improve efficiency and reduce costs. It addresses challenges like high server maintenance costs, power and cooling expenses from datacenter sprawl, and limited space for physical expansion. Solaris virtualization technologies like containers, logical domains, and the xVM hypervisor enable consolidation while maintaining performance and security. They provide flexibility to adapt resource allocation to business needs and improve resilience against failures or disasters.
2. State of Infrastructure Today
Operating Cost Power and
Cooling Space Crunch Server Sprawl
• $8 in maintenance • 50¢ for every $1 • DC space costs • 41m physical
for every $1 spent on spent on servers 10’s of millions servers by 2010 –
new infrastructure • $29 bn in power and to build 700% increase in
cooling industry wide 15 years
• 20-30:1 Server-to- • Limits on facilities
admin ratio upgrades in • Ave UT < 10% =
existing sites $140 bn in excess
server capacity –
a 3 year supply
Source: IDC
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3. Global IT Challenges
Economics Business Continuity Business
and Ecology and Resilience Agility
• Under-utilized • Disaster recovery • Ability to deploy
systems limit planning is non- new services is
business growth negotiable critical to remain
competitive
• Energy costs • Downtime is
drain the bottom not an option • IT resources
line must be easier
• Remote to allocate
• Sprawling IT management
infrastructure is
hard to manage
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5. The Power of Virtualization
Server Reduced Increased
Consolidation Space and Mobility Hardware
Power Utilization
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6. Virtualization Challenges
• Increased management complexity
> Still need to manage hardware and OS
• Virtualization density requires performance
and management skills
• Management solutions are custom-constructed
by the customer using multiple tools
• Performance overhead can limit possible
cost savings
• New security challenges
• Proprietary solutions
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7. Sun Virtualization History
“I think their strategy is right on the money”—
Chris Wolf, Burton Group
Deployment of
Open Source Software
Open Networking
VirtualBox
Xen VDI
Open Storage
Logical Domains
Sun Ray
Solaris Containers
NFS
Dynamic System Domains
Time
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8. Desktop to Datacenter Virtualization
Unifying Virtualization and Management Across the Infrastructure
Datacenter Management – Sun xVM Ops Center
SERVER DESKTOP STORAGE NETWORK
VIRTUALIZATION VIRTUALIZATION VIRTUALIZATION VIRTUALIZATION
Solaris Containers Sun Virtual Desktop Open Storage Open Networking
Sun xVM Hypervisor Infrastructure
Logical Domains Sun VirtualBox
Dynamic Domains
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10. What is Important?
Understand the
Application – One Size Management of These
Does Not Fit All Environments is Key
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
FUSION
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11. Understanding Your Application
Application xVM Ops Center
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
FUSION X-Series T-Series M-Series
Solaris Containers Solaris Containers
OS Solaris Containers
Solaris 8/9 Containers Solaris 8/9 Containers
Virtualization
xVM Htpervisor
Hypervisors/ VirtualBox Logical Domains Dynamic Domains
Domains VMware ESX
Hyper-V
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12. Server Virtualization from Sun Today
xVM Ops Center
Hard Partitions SPARC Hypervisors x86 Hypervisors Solaris Containers
Identity File Mail
Server Server Server
Multiple OSes Single OS
M – Series T – Series X – Series All Sun Systems
Dynamic Domains Logical Domains xVM HYpervisor Solaris Containers
VirtualBox (Zones + SRM)
Solaris Trusted Extensions
VMware ESX Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
Microsoft Hyper-V Solaris Containers
for Linux Applications
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13. Different Usage Scenarios
• Eco consolidation – Retire legacy
systems
• Consolidate many small applications
on different OSes
• Adapt application resources/location
to business changes
• Protect Web facing applications
• Consolidate vertically scaling
applications – databases
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14. Eco Consolidation with Solaris
xVM Ops Center
Solaris 8 Solaris 9
Container Container
Solaris 8 Solaris 9
Solaris 10
• Virtualization allows the move to newer more efficient systems
> SPARC: Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
• Lower the power/cooling/space/support cost on running
these applications
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15. Eco Consolidation with Solaris
Solaris 8 4 Solaris 8
on 4 V880s
Containers on Total Savings
T2000 with Solaris 10
Before After Total
• 32 CPUs • 1 CPU with 32 threads
• 136 Rack Units • 2 Rack Units 98% space savings
• 8800 Watts • 275 Watts 97% less power
• 28,872 BTUs • 1,535 BTUs 94% less BTUs
• OS support cost: • OS support cost: 83% lower annual
$21,600 for Solaris 8 $3,780 for Solaris 10 with support cost
Solaris 8 Containers
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16. Eco Consolidation with Solaris
Solaris 8 6 Solaris 8
on 6 V880s
Containers on Total Savings
T5240 with Solaris 10
Before After Total
• 48 CPUs • 2 CPUs (128 threads)
• 204 Rack Units • 2 Rack Units 99% space savings
• 13,200 Watts • 1,100 Watts 92% less power
• 43,308 BTUs • 3,608 BTUs 92% less BTUs
• OS support cost: • OS support cost: 88% lower annual
$32,400 for Solaris 8 $3,780 for Solaris 10 with support cost
Solaris 8 Containers
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17. Eco Consolidation with Solaris
Solaris 8 6 Solaris 8
on 6 V880s
Containers on 2 Total Savings
T5220s with Solaris 10
Before After Total
• 48 CPUs • 2 CPUs (128 threads)
• 204 Rack Units • 4 Rack Units 98% space savings
• 13,200 Watts • 2,200 Watts 83% less power
• 43,308 BTUs • 7,216 BTUs 83% less BTUs
• OS support cost: • OS support cost: 77% lower annual
$32,400 for Solaris 8 $7,560 for Solaris 10 with support cost
Solaris 8 Containers
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18. Consolidate Many Small Applications
on Different OSes
xVM Ops Center
• A hypervisor allows the consolidation of many small apps
> SPARC: Logical domains, dynamic domains
> X86: VirtualBox, xVM hypervisor, VMware, Hyper-V
• Each VM can have their own patch level
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19. United States Air Force
Overview Solution
• Managed service provider to • Consolidation with Solaris Containers
the U.S. Air Force • Products and Services: Solaris 10
• Capabilities Integration Operating System, Sun SPARC
Environment (CIE) facilitates Enterprise T5240 Server, Sun Fire
development and testing of T2000 Server
software applications prior to
production use Results
• Consolidated servers using the • Reduce rack space to achieve a 13:1
Containers feature in the consolidation ratio and reclaim
Solaris 10 Operating System datacenter floor space
• Decreased server deployment time by
Challenge more than 90% with Logical Domains
• Optimize hardware utilization (LDoms)
• Conserve datacenter floor space, • Cut datacenter power consumption by
power, and cooling more than 25% and reclaimed nearly
• Build a scalable architecture 50% of datacenter floor space with
eco-responsible servers
• Keep up with growth and expand
customer base • Provided customers better service
levels at a lower cost
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20. Primus Canada
• Overview • Solution
•850 employee •Leverage Sun’s Try and Buy Program
telecommunications company •Deploy proven Solaris 10 partitioning
•1,000,000+ customers and virtualization capabilities, using
Sun Fire T2000 servers and Logical
•Challenge Domains (LDoms)
•Maximize uptime •Results
•Add failover •Increased server performance
•Improve IT staff freedom and and efficiency
flexibility •Reduced physical space requirements
•Consolidate four existing VoIP •Lower energy consumption
platforms •Highly stable environment
“When we failed over from the old system to the Sun Fire T2000, the application
went from 50 percent CPU utilization down to 15 percent. We were just
dumbfounded to learn that it was only using 15 percent of one core of this
eight-core CPU.”
— Paul Monaghan, Manager, Service Platform Engineering Team, Primus Canada
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21. Adjust to Business Changes
Re-Size the Resources to Fit the Changes on Demand
AM/Day/Week
PM/Night/Weekend
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22. Adjust to Business Changes
Migrate the Applications onto Fewer System: Turn Unneeded
Systems Off to Save Power
AM/Day/Week
PM/Night/
Weekend
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23. Secure Internet Facing Applications
Problem
• Many companies want a Web presence
• Web-facing applications often need to be dynamic
• These applications are often new and untested
Risk
• Hackers can de-face website or steal data
• Hackers can gain access to the corporate network
Solution
• Use Solaris Containers/Trusted Extensions to
“lock down” the application environment
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24. Secure Internet Facing Applications
An Example Configuration to Prevent Web Page Hijacking
Solaris 10
Private Public
LAN Internet
Datazone Webzone
10.0.0.200 129.152.1.200
/shared
Read/Write Read Only
Firewall
• A locked down environment can protect
> x86 and SPARC: Solaris Containers
• Control the content from outside Container
• Totally isolate the internet network from LAN
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25. Consolidate Vertical Scaling Apps
Example
• Insurance agency with many field offices
Problem
• Databases need many threads (CPUs) to perform
• Field offices only get ~20 inquiries per day
Result
> Systems and database licenses are very under utilized
Solution
• Consolidate the databases in Containers on an
M-Series system
• Compress the costs of 40 databases into that of ~2!
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26. Consolidate Vertical Scaling Apps
40 x 8 Way Systems One 16 Way System Total Saving
Cost Cost Cost
• 40 x $old-systems SWaP • 1 x $new system SWaP • 38 x power/cooling/space
• 40 x 8 x $database • 1 x 12 x $database • 38 x 8 x $database
• Using the new M-series allow to vertically scaling
> Powerful CPU, lots of memory
> Use Solaris containers to “cap” the CPU to the right level
• Solaris Containers considered a license boundary for both Oracle & IBM
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27. Server Virtualization from Sun Today
xVM Ops Center
Hard Partitions SPARC Hypervisors x86 Hypervisors Solaris Containers
Identity File Mail
Server Server Server
Multiple OSes Single OS
M – Series T – Series X – Series All Sun Systems
Dynamic Domains Logical Domains xVM Hypervisor Solaris Containers
VirtualBox (Zones + SRM)
Solaris Trusted Extensions
VMware ESX Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
Microsoft Hyper-V Solaris Containers
for Linux Applications
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28. Server Virtualization Strengths
• High performance network and I/O – bare metal performance
Solaris • Consolidated old Solaris versions
Containers • Limit the security breach of your web application
• Consolidate very dynamic applications
• Migrate VMs to fit business changes
Logical • Most of the hypervisor built into the chip – very little overhead
Domains • Redundant I/O paths
• Run any x86 OS on shared infrastructure
xVM Server • Migrate VMs to fit business changes
• Move old OSes onto newer share/more efficient hardware
• High isolation – dedicated hardware
Dynamic • High performance network and I/O – bare metal performance
Domains • No software single point of failure
• Run multiple OSes on the same system
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31. Discovery Update
• Bare metal and OS discovery • Patch Linux and Solaris
• Inventory and systems grouping • Simulate
• Role based access control • Schedule
• Rollback
• App, file and script management
xVM Ops ●
Provisioning ●
Management
Center with • Linux and Solaris Operating • Compliance reporting
Sun Universal Systems • Audit trail
Knowledgebase • Firmware, with dependencies • Lights out management
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32. Save Time with Sun xVM Ops Center
Without Sun
xVM Ops With Sun xVM
Activity Center Ops Center
Identify 100 assets on network Days Minutes
Compare inventory for 100 systems
Hours Minutes
against baseline
Obtain software and patches and
Days < 24 hours
validate PKG/RPM installation
Identify patches required for 100+
Hours 15 Minutes
servers and impact on system
Deploy OS to powered-off
Days Hours
baremetal 100 servers
Apply a security fix to 100 servers 1 Day 20 Minutes
Identify, validate and deploy iLOM
Days Hours
firmware on 100 servers
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33. Solaris Containers
DNS
Server
Apps
Web2 Zone
Web1 Zone
Global
DNS Zone
Mail Zone
Zone OS
5 60 25 10
4 CPU Pool (FSS) 4 CPU Pool
Solaris 10 Kernel
Server
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34. Solaris Containers
Solaris Containers – proven technology
• More than 20% of Solaris 10 production systems are
running multiple Containers
• Recognized license boundary for major ISVs
• New features added regularly
• Simplified system upgrades via Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
• Solaris Trusted Extensions give enterprise grade security
• Mobility of Containers give agility and rolling upgrades
• Solaris Containers have full Solaris Cluster support
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35. Logical Domains
Apps
Control/ Service
Service Domain
Domain
OS
Server
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36. Logical Domains 1.1
• Support multiple versions of Solaris,
OpenSolaris, Linux and FreeBSD
on the same system
• Domain Mobility – Allows users to migrate
workload between LDoms without shutting down
the application
> Users can also move workload between different
machine types if the Logical Domain is shut down
• Virtual I/O enhancements
> Dedicated hardware mapped to a Logical Domain
> Built in Dynamic Reconfiguration
> Virtual network and switch support
• Comes at no additional cost
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37. Sun xVM Hypervisor
Mail Mail File
Server Server Server
Sun xVM Server / Hypervisor
IPS ZFS PV Drivers VMDK FMA
Enterprise-
Class
Hypervisor
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38. Sun xVM Hypervisor
• Server Virtualization Without Barriers
> Built-in management
> Easy to use interface
> Low barrier to entry
> Programming interfaces
• VMware compatible
• Enterprise-class foundation
• Open source
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39. Server Virtualization from Sun Today
xVM Ops Center
Hard Partitions SPARC Hypervisors x86 Hypervisors Solaris Containers
Identity File Mail
Server Server Server
Multiple OSes Single OS
M – Series T – Series X – Series All Sun Systems
Dynamic Domains Logical Domains xVM Server Solaris Containers
VirtualBox (Zones + SRM)
Solaris Trusted Extensions
VMware ESX Solaris 8 and 9 Containers
Microsoft Hyper-V Solaris Containers
for Linux Applications
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