Did you ever wish you could get the industrial strength power of UNIX/RISC with the flexibility of cloud computing? Well, now you can! With recent advances from Oracle it's possible to build an incredibly high-performance, flexible, available virtualized infrastructure based on Solaris and SPARC. Here's the recipe!
Authored in collaboration across the Oracle "Systems Group" team, we now have a complete best practice guide for you. Click below to download it:
Best Practices for Building a Virtualized SPARC Computing Environment
Inside you'll find recommendations for how and when to leverage technologies like:
SPARC T4
OVM for SPARC hypervisor (version 2.2 and newer)
Solaris 11
Ops Center 12c
ZFS Storage Appliance
Oracle network switches
Based on following these best practices, you'll be able to construct a dynamic, virtualized infrastructure that allows for:
Easy, GUI-based provisioning on new VMs
Automated HA failover in the event of physical server failures
Automatic load balancing across a cluster of VM hosts
Complete end-to-end monitoring
You should download this paper and check it out. Even if you aren't planning on buying all new hardware, and instead want to transform some existing gear into a dynamic virtualized environment then this paper will give you concrete info on what to do and the trade-offs you'll make.
Have fun getting started on your journey to build a SPARC cloud!
