Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 22:06 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Recently there's been a lot of news about OpenSolaris, more specifically in reference to the great progress made by virtualization technologies in it. In this article, I will examine some of these technologies, and compare them with the state of the art on other platforms."
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2006-12-28
Very true, a Linux installation using Xen would in no way be a lightweight solution.
Several people have posted some excellent reasons for using Branded Zones, i.e. the fact that you can deploy several zones that share disk space and resources.
Another interesting one was running the Solaris 8 userland. This would be an excellent solution for some of the NIS+ setups that I know of. As NIS+ has been deprecated in favor of LDAP, Sun no longer releases updated GUI tools to manage NIS+ domains (which they themselves recommend using when editing NIS+ DBs). You can tailor the Solaris 10 Admin GUI to deal with NIS+ but it is in now way as flexible as what was released for Solaris 8.
That last point may seem a bit archaic to some, and I'm sure others would push for a migration towards LDAP but not only is LDAP an incredibly complex beast to implement and manage, it's also the first rule of system administration to not fix what ain't broken ;-)