A Platform for Making Use of Physical and Virtual Sun Environments
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is the newest addition in the Oracle Enterprise Manager family. It is used to manage both physical and virtual systems, and manages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating, monitoring and management.
Configuring Highly Available Paths from Sun LDoms Guest Domains to Storage
The Sun BluePrints article “LDoms I/O Best Practices - Storage Availability with Logical Domains” by Peter A. Wilson discusses the approaches and trade-offs for configuring highly available paths from Sun Logical Domains (LDoms) guest domains to storage. Topics include I/O availability, multipath I/O with Solaris OS MPxIO, multipath I/O with virtual I/O failover, virtual I/O failover and network file storage, and multipath I/O to network file storage with virtual I/O failover.
Highlights of the Latest Features, Resources 
Get more details on the September announced new release Sun Ops Center 2.5, which introduces several new features involving Solaris Zones, Logical Domains (LDoms), Storage Library Management, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Windows patching, Live Upgrade, installation and deployment, smart groups, Enterprise Controller, enhanced upgrade experience, and more browser support.
Covers CPU, Memory, Virtual Network -Disks-Console, and More
Logical Domains (LDoms) provide built-in and no-cost virtualization capabilities for Sun Chip Multithreading (CMT) Servers, and many are considering implementing it as part of a virtualization strategy. But what about security? Sun’s Jim Laurent recently had to address this question with a federal government customer and decided to share his findings.
Short Items of Interest for the OpenSolaris Community
Solutions Accommodate Growth, Improve Service Delivery
Monmouth Independence Network (MINET) is a public utility that delivers voice, data and cable services to 3,500 customers in the cities of Monmouth and Independence, Oregon, using Sun technologies. Faced with the need to expand services while minimizing costs, providing for high performance and availability and scaling to support rapid growth, MINET looked to Sun for the servers, unified storage, flash memory, thin clients, and virtualization necessary to meet these business needs.
Short Items of Interest for Solaris Users
Adds New Virtualization Management Capabilities for Solaris and SPARC
Sun Ops Center combines discovery, provisioning, updating, monitoring, and management of physical and virtual systems. This latest release extends lifecycle management capabilities across the full range of Sun’s x86 and SPARC servers, virtual technologies including Solaris Zones and Logical Domains, and heterogeneous server and operating systems environments. The lifecycle management features involve asset management, automated provisioning, intelligent patching, centralized management and comprehensive monitoring.
Solves Consolidation and Utilization Issues, and Then Some 
In Aparna Kumar’s experience with startups, a universal goal when considering their IT environment is getting better utilization of their computing resources. Virtualization is a common solution. Along this line of thinking, Kumar wants readers of his blog to consider that a company might want to look into changing their operating system to Solaris in order to meet this goal and then some - “without cost, without performance overheads and with ease of configuration & management.”
White Paper Presents Virtualizing with Sun CMT Solutions
This new white paper addresses issues many datacenters are currently facing - how to lower TCO while supporting more customers and reducing time to market for new services. This Sun white paper describes some Sun solutions and their technologies, including Sun Blade T6340 and T6320 Server Modules, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440, T5240, T5140, T5220, and T5120 Servers, Sun Logical Domains, and Solaris Containers, to demonstrate the business benefits of consolidating enterprise applications onto Sun CMT rackmount and blade servers.
