"Are you planning to consolidate a server running a business-critical application that you want to update with future releases over upcoming years, or are you trying to get rid of an old server running a legacy application that will not be updated anymore?"
This is just one of the questions Thierry asks in his article, which is a great resource for sysadmins, systems architects, and IT managers who are trying to decide whether to consolidate individual servers onto an Oracle SuperCluster. Your answer will determine whether you should put your application in native or non-native Oracle Solaris zone.
Other questions Thierry and friends ask:
- Is my server eligible for physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration?
- Are you planning a long-term or short-term migration?
- How critical are performance and manageability?
Once he has helped you determine your general direction, he discusses these architectural considerations:
- SuperCluster domains
- Network setup
- VLAN setup
- Licensing considerations
Finally, he provides a thorough step-by-step instructions for the migration itself, which consists of:
- Performing a sanity check on the source server
- Creating a FLAR image of the source system
- Creating a ZFS pool for the zone
- Creating and booting the zone
- Performance tuning
And just in case you're still not sure how it's done, he concludes with an example that shows you how to consolidate an Oracle Solaris 8 Server Running Oracle Database 10g. It's all here, give it a good read:
Technical Article: If Virtualization Is Free, It Can't Be Good, Right?
Article by Thierry Manfé, with contributions from Orgad Kimchi, Maria Frendberg, and Mike Gerdts
Best practices and hands-on instructions for using Oracle Solaris Zones to consolidate existing physical servers and their applications onto Oracle SuperCluster using the P2V migration process, including a step-by-step example of how to consolidate an Oracle Solaris 8 server running Oracle Database 10g.
Video Interview: Design and Uses of the Oracle SuperCluster
Interview with Alan Packer
Allan Packer, Lead Engineer of the Oracle SuperCluster architecture team, as explains how the design of this engineered system supports consolidation, multi-tenancy, and other objectives popular with customers.
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