[afnog] VIRTUAL SERVER

Phil Regnauld regnauld at nsrc.org
Thu Oct 13 18:17:01 UTC 2011


Randy Bush (randy) writes:
> 
> i would order something with intel architecture that could run vmware or
> kvm.

	That's a possibily as I wrote, but once you have the 6900, you might as
	well use it.

	But service, power, parts, ... are expensive on these boxes.  Cost
	benefit analysis :)

John Kemp (kemp) writes:
> 
> But if you are just doing Sun-only guests, it would seem that
> you might still be able to do Solaris "Zones" still with the builtin
> tools in the OS, yes?
> 
> (Always seemed like a neat method to me, but it did lock you
> into that single OS for all of your guests...)

	True, and zones will perform better than full virtualization
	guests.

	Cheers,
	Phil



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