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Sun Virtualization Technologies Streamline Management for City of San Antonio

The City of San Antonio (CoSA) allows its residents to pay a traffic ticket, apply for a job, or find information about the dozens of activities online. As its server infrastructure had sprawled to keep pace with its service delivery, CoSA decided to upgrade its IT infrastructure to reduce space, maintenance costs, and enhance service. The solution: Sun’s SPARC servers as a platform for Solaris 10 and Solaris Zones, which provided the best roadmap for return on investment (ROI) with its virtualization technologies and energy-efficient, mainframe-class servers.

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Highlights on Ops Center Capabilities in Handling Zones

Sun Ops Center 2.5 offers enhanced support for virtualization solutions such as Solaris Zones. Owen Allen briefly highlights what users can do with Zones in the latest release of this comprehensive management software for physical and virtual systems. This includes managing, monitoring and working with both global and local Zones.

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Highlights on Ops Center Capabilities in Handling Zones

Sun Ops Center 2.5 offers enhanced support for virtualization solutions such as Solaris Zones. Owen Allen briefly highlights what users can do with Zones in the latest release of this comprehensive management software for physical and virtual systems. This includes managing, monitoring and working with both global and local Zones.

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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.

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Three-part Tutorial on OpenSolaris and Zones in AWS

Sean O’Dell has written a three-part tutorial on setting up Solaris Zones within an instance of OpenSolaris 2009.06 in the Amazon Cloud EC2 by utilizing the virtual networking features provided by Crossbow. His step-by-step guide explains how to get the environment up and running, and how to use Crossbow with NAT to build a complete virtual network connecting multiple Zones within a Solaris EC2 host. He also describes how to backup zones and save a fully configured environment and then clone it.

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Using Solaris Live Upgrade and Solaris Update on Attach ”

Maintaining Solaris Systems with Solaris Live Upgrade and Update on Attach,” a Sun BluePrints Online paper, explains how to use Solaris Live Upgrade and the Solaris Update on Attach feature, with Solaris Zones, Solaris Cluster, and the ZFS file system for software maintenance in general and the application of operating system patches in particular.

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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.

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IT Director’s Guide Provides Specific Examples

A Sun-sponsored IT director’s guide asserts consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and utilizing virtualization techniques will give enterprises increased efficiency, performance and flexibility while lowering costs. In twelve pages, this guide entitled “Reducing Costs by Improving Server Performance” offers what it states is proof that consolidation works. and focuses on Sun servers with CoolThreads technology and Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers as solutions that can bring these claims to reality.

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A Secured Container to Deploy Services

Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette introduces Immutable Service Containers (ISC) as a new method for organizations to better protect their services and data. ISCs are expected to become one of the most basic architectural building blocks for more complex, highly adaptive and autonomic security architectures, he writes, offering some insight into the project and details on its instantiation in the OpenSolaris community.

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Compares “OpenSolaris Bible” - Which Book is Best and For Whom

The book “Pro OpenSolaris”, published in April 2009, by Harry Foxwell and Christine Tran focuses primarily on the key OpenSolaris features that the authors believe should be learned and used for Web development. Based on OpenSolaris 2008.11, the book targets readers that are comfortable with the user and development environments of GNOME and Linux. Scott Dickson shares his impressions of the book in a quick review, and offers an abbreviated comparison to “OpenSolaris Bible.”

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