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Zone Alarm !!!
Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 08:08AM
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Karl Reitschuster
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Hi,
the title is not a title of a Science Fiction film or of a Hackers memories intruding networks or a gaming title but is SUN Solaris related. SUN Solaris 5.10 introduced a virtualization concept called Zones. A Zone is like a logical/virtual machine on a SUN Server Hardware. Zones are nearer bound to resources then for example a VM like VMware or Parallels (on Mac); This keeps the frictional loss of resources lower.
At our customer site database servers are driven in SUN Solaris Zones. Resources dependend on the implementation of a zone could be shared between the Zones. Hardware is better utilized.
But one drawback is here - it's to specify performance;
