Posts tagged with: containers

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008: Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative. Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting benchmarking of these 3 popular operating systems, and believe it or not OpenSolaris (or Slow-aris as it was once coined) does pretty well. Code Instructions: Java Performance - A good read if you still have doubts about Java's performance. Java is much much... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007: Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it's not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching. Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I'm a very disappointed in Sun here. Joyent are probably the best known OpenSolaris users, and yet Sun couldn't pull finger and treat them with the care they deserve. Come on Jonathan, sort it out. Porting Open Source Java to Leopard - Wow. That didn't take long and is... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 3 August 2007: HOWTO: Move a Solaris Containers How To Guides - Details how to move a container from one host to another using functionality already in Solaris Express and due in Solaris 10. HOWTO: Managing ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers - A basic guide that demonstrates the use of ZFS in conjunction with Solaris Containers (zones). HOWTO: Solaris Live Upgrade How-To Guide - Details how to use Live Upgrade to upgrade the OS or apply patches with the least amount of downtime, and chance of corruption or data loss. HOWTO: How to Configure and Run... Continue reading ►

Novell and Red Hat have concrete plans to build "container" virtualization into their Linux products. They're already working on Xen, but now they like the idea of presenting a single OS as many using "containers", thus reducing the overhead and increasing performance. Hmmm, this sounds remarkably familiar.