I have a Solaris Sun Fire V1280 server with Solaris 9 SPARC installed.
The server has 12 processors @ 1200 MHz each, 24 GB RAM installed, and
2 68GB Hard Disks.

I've been given the task to research and setup virtual servers on this
machine.


Can someone point me in the right direction to get started? A good
website, a good book?
Is Solaris 9 even sufficient for this or do I need to upgrade to
Solaris 10?


Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!

MikeSmith813@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I have a Solaris Sun Fire V1280 server with Solaris 9 SPARC installed.
> The server has 12 processors @ 1200 MHz each, 24 GB RAM installed, and
> 2 68GB Hard Disks.
>
> I've been given the task to research and setup virtual servers on this
> machine.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to get started? A good
> website, a good book?
> Is Solaris 9 even sufficient for this or do I need to upgrade to
> Solaris 10?
>
> Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!


Hi,

I think that "Zones" is only supported in Solaris 10. I thought I'd
seen that there was a way to get zones to work in Solaris 9, but can't
find the reference. In any event, the easiest way would be to go with
Solaris 10, I think.

Jim

Thanks Jim. My question then becomes: If I upgrade to Solaris 10 can I
setup zones where each zone emulates a different operating system. For
example, can I have my server installed with Solaris 10 configured with
3 zones, lets say. Can zone1 have Solaris8, zone2 have Solaris 9, and
zone3 run Solaris 10?

<MikeSmith813@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jim. My question then becomes: If I upgrade to Solaris 10 can I
> setup zones where each zone emulates a different operating system. For
> example, can I have my server installed with Solaris 10 configured with
> 3 zones, lets say. Can zone1 have Solaris8, zone2 have Solaris 9, and
> zone3 run Solaris 10?
>
Hi,

Zones aka containers are only supported with Solaris 10.

In a very basic way here is how the whole thing is installed:

1. You install Solaris 10
2. Zones are created without installing any further OS
3. Applications are installed within a zone

For more info on zones look here:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/utilization.jsp

If you need multiple versions of Solaris on a server you need system with
multiple domains as the E4900, E6900 or the E2xk.

HTH,

Axel Neumann