eweek.com— Jason Brooks provides some interesting commentary on some of the approaches different vendors are taking to unlocking the inherent power that virtualization + Linux will deliver.
Aug 29, 2006View in Crawl 4
Well linux's current answers for vitalization, save on hardware costs, but they really don't do much to save on administrative costs and that is what really kills the bottom line, currently if you deploy 10 virtual machines on Linux you get to do 11 installs even if you automate the process an install takes an hour. Also there is no real control for sharing disk space, besides using a shared NFS file system. And networking is even worse. If you want to give 2 of the virtual machines a higher priority to band width and limit the rest to a smaller portion of it. You have to study a number of highly confusing how-tos. If you use the latest features of Solaris and even more so Solaris Express. Deploying virtual hosts becomes almost a real-time event, instead something that takes an hour or more. With Solaris you can share disk space easily and impose quotas and space guarantees with just a simple command or two. check out <a class="user" href="http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-in-life-of-solaris-11-admin.html">http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-in-life-of-solaris-11-admin.html</a> if you wish to see how Solaris does vitalization the easy way. Though the document mostly highlights Zones. Some of the features work in XEN as well.
jamesdwiAug 29, 2006
Well linux's current answers for vitalization, save on hardware costs, but they really don't do much to save on administrative costs and that is what really kills the bottom line, currently if you deploy 10 virtual machines on Linux you get to do 11 installs even if you automate the process an install takes an hour. Also there is no real control for sharing disk space, besides using a shared NFS file system. And networking is even worse. If you want to give 2 of the virtual machines a higher priority to band width and limit the rest to a smaller portion of it. You have to study a number of highly confusing how-tos. If you use the latest features of Solaris and even more so Solaris Express. Deploying virtual hosts becomes almost a real-time event, instead something that takes an hour or more. With Solaris you can share disk space easily and impose quotas and space guarantees with just a simple command or two. check out <a class="user" href="http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-in-life-of-solaris-11-admin.html">http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-in-life-of-solaris-11-admin.html</a> if you wish to see how Solaris does vitalization the easy way. Though the document mostly highlights Zones. Some of the features work in XEN as well.