The document discusses virtualization and its benefits for data centers. It describes how virtualization can help address challenges around server sprawl, underutilized hardware, high costs of power and cooling, and limited IT infrastructure upgrades. Specifically, it summarizes Solaris virtualization technologies like containers, logical domains, and xVM Server that can help consolidate servers, increase hardware utilization, and improve data center manageability.

1. VIRTUALIZATION BUILT IN... SOLARIS AND xVM: FOUNDATION FOR THE DYNAMIC DATACENTER Nicola Rauti Systems Engineer Global Systems Engineering Sun Microsystems Italia

2. State of Infrastructure Today 41m physical servers by 2010 – 700% increase in 15 years

3. Ave UT < 10% = $140 bn in excess server capacity – a 3 year supply Server Sprawl Power and Cooling DC space costs 10’s of millions to build

4. Limits on facilities upgrades in existing sites $8 in maintenance for every $1 spent on new infrastructure

5. 20-30:1 Server-to- admin ratio Space Crunch Operating Cost Source: IDC 50 ¢ for every $1 spent on servers

6. $29 bn in power and cooling industry wide

7. Economics and Ecology Business Continuity and Resilience Business Agility Global IT Challenges Under-utilized systems limit business growth

8. Energy costs drain the bottom line

9. Sprawling IT infrastructure is hard to manage Disaster recovery planning is non-negotiable

10. Downtime is not an option

11. Remote management Ability to deploy new services is critical to remain competitive

12. IT resources must be easier to allocate

13. The Power of Virtualization Server Consolidation Reduced Space and Power Mobility Increased Hardware Utilization

14. Virtualization Challenges Increased management complexity Still need to manage hardware and OS Virtualization density requires performance and management skills

15. Management solutions are custom-constructed by the customer using multiple tools

16. Performance overhead can limit possible cost savings

17. New security challenges

18. Proprietary solutions Getty images: 200315535-001.jpg

19. Deployment of Open Source Software Sun Virtualization History Time “ I think their strategy is right on the money” — Chris Wolf, Burton Group NFS Dynamic System Domains Sun Ray Solaris Containers Logical Domains Open Storage Xen Open Networking VirtualBox VDI

20. Datacenter Management – Sun xVM Ops Center Desktop to Datacenter Virtualization Unifying Virtualization and Management Across the Infrastructure Open Storage STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION SERVER VIRTUALIZATION NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION Open Networking Solaris Containers Sun xVM Server Logical Domains Dynamic Domains Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Sun VirtualBox

21. Server Virtualization

22. What is Important? Understand the Application – One Size Does Not Fit All Management of These Environments is Key IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FUSION

23. OS Virtualization Hypervisors/ Domains Solaris Containers Solaris 8/9 Containers Solaris Containers Solaris 8/9 Containers Logical Domains Dynamic Domains xVM Ops Center Understanding Your Application Solaris Containers xVM Server VirtualBox VMware ESX Hyper-V T-Series M-Series X-Series Application FUSION IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

24. xVM Ops Center Server Virtualization from Sun Today Hard Partitions SPARC Hypervisors x86 Hypervisors Solaris Containers Identity Server Multiple OSes Single OS All Sun Systems Solaris Containers (Zones + SRM)‏ Solaris Trusted Extensions Solaris 8 and 9 Containers Solaris Containers for Linux Applications X – Series xVM Server VirtualBox VMware ESX Microsoft Hyper-V T – Series Logical Domains M – Series Dynamic Domains Mail Server File Server

25. Solaris Containers 4 CPU Pool 4 CPU Pool (FSS)‏ Mail Zone Solaris 10 Kernel DNS Zone Web2 Zone Web1 Zone Global Zone OS Server DNS Server Apps Solaris Zones + Solaris Resource Manager = Solaris Containers 60 5 25 10

26. Solaris Containers Solaris Containers – proven technology More than 20% of Solaris 10 production systems are running multiple Containers

27. Recognized license boundary for major ISVs

28. New features added regularly

29. Simplified system upgrades via Solaris 8 and 9 Containers

30. Solaris Trusted Extensions give enterprise grade security

31. Mobility of Containers give agility and rolling upgrades

32. Solaris Containers have full Solaris Cluster support

33. Logical Domains OS Server Control/ Service Domain Service Domain Apps

34. Logical Domains 1.1 Support multiple versions of Solaris, OpenSolaris, Linux and FreeBSD on the same system

35. 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

36. Built in Dynamic Reconfiguration

37. Virtual network and switch support Comes at no additional cost