VIRTUALIZATION BUILT IN... SOLARIS AND xVM: FOUNDATION FOR THE DYNAMIC DATACENTER Nicola Rauti Systems Engineer  Global Systems Engineering Sun Microsystems Italia
State of Infrastructure Today 41m  physical servers by 2010  –   700% increase  in 15 years
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
Limits on facilities  upgrades in existing sites $8  in maintenance  for every  $1  spent on new infrastructure
20-30:1   Server-to- admin ratio Space Crunch Operating Cost Source: IDC 50 ¢  for every  $1  spent on servers
$29 bn  in power and cooling industry wide
Economics and Ecology Business Continuity and Resilience Business Agility Global IT Challenges Under-utilized systems limit business growth
Energy costs drain the bottom line
Sprawling IT infrastructure is hard to manage Disaster recovery planning is non-negotiable
Downtime is not an option
Remote management Ability to deploy new services is critical to remain competitive
IT resources  must be easier  to allocate
The Power of Virtualization Server Consolidation Reduced Space and Power Mobility Increased Hardware Utilization
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
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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
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
Server Virtualization
What is Important? Understand the Application – One Size Does Not Fit All Management of These Environments is Key IDENTITY MANAGEMENT FUSION
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
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
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
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
Logical Domains OS Server Control/ Service Domain Service Domain Apps
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

Sun xVM Virtualization Uni Parthenope