Server Virtualization Software by SUN

Today, many organizations face an escalating cost of managing vast networks, with software components installed on hundreds, if not thousands of nodes.  This has put new focus on the need to reduce the cost of IT infrastructure, increasing utilization of hardware and better managing end-user service levels.

Sun’s vision is that businesses can accomplish this through N1™ Grid computing, a new approach for managing data centers. N1 Grid views a data center as a single pool of resources delivering business services.

Server Virtualization reduces oversight and hardware cost, by enabling the management of data centers to be treated as a fabric of interconnected computing resources rather than as a room filled with individual systems.

SUN Software for Server Virtualization:

Solaris™ Containers (formerly N1 Grid Containers) technology is a key element in the implementation of an N1 Grid System, and provides flexible, software-defined boundaries for isolating software applications and services. These applications can then be managed independently of each other, even while running with the same instance of the Solaris Operating System (OS), without the extra overhead of managing multiple OS instances for each.

The primary benefits of Solaris Containers are:

• Reduced management costs through server consolidation, reduced numbers of OS instances, and end-to-end service-level management
• Increased resource utilization with dynamic resource reallocation between Containers.
• Improved service availability by minimizing fault propagation and security violations between applications
• Increased flexibility through software Containers, which can be dynamically reconfigured
• Increased accuracy and flexibility in usage billing based on workloads rather than hardware or processes
• Businesses can realize a significant reduction in total cost of ownership without sacrificing service levels

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