Sun XVM and Ops Center

Sun announced new virtualization products last week. It seems to be a version of Xen hypervisor running on solaris . So now, Sun has three Solaris virtualization technologies: XVM, Solaris Containers, and LDOM. So, what it means is that a Sparc Server can be running a solaris container in a solaris XVM in an LDOM. This is 3 layers of virtualizations.

Also, in this announce, Sun presents Ops Center. This is a re-branded N1 System Manager. It seems that the focus will be on the management of the hardware, up to the operating system, combined with Sun Connection.

Mark Hamilton told The Register:

Sun has also announced a new management software package, Ops Center, that will work as a command and control console for physical and virtual gear- that's to say the hypervisor and Solaris Containers. Sun said the software also includes discovery and inventory, application provisioning, software lifecycles automation, hardware and software monitoring and compliance reporting. Sun brazenly says "it does everything except unpack boxes and rack and cable systems."

Ops Center is going to be released in December. It will be interesting to see how this can be leveraged by Configuration Automation tools like what BMC announced recently.

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Posted by jc on 08 October 2007 09:36:29 PDT #


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Comment from Harish on 15 November 2007 08:01:37 PST #
Sun xVM Ops Center is not a re-branded N1 Systems Manager. Would appreciate if you get your facts right.
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Comment from jc on 06 December 2007 08:55:19 PST #
You are absolutely right. Sorry about the confusion. I would say though that this makes the positioning of the two products more difficult to understand.
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Comment from Brandon E Taylor on 24 December 2007 00:02:15 PST #
Positioning should not be too terribly difficult if, as I suspect, N1 System Manager is integral to the xVM Ops Center offering. Positioning should become even simpler as all of the compelling N1SM capabilities are brought &quot;on line&quot; in Ops Center.

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