Solaris Zones/Containers VPS

gbshouse

Do you know any low end Solaris Zones/Containers provider?

MrAndroid

I heavily doubt it, Solaris is no longer updated and theres not much interest in Solaris.

gbshouse

Oracle Solaris 11 was released on the beginning of this year and recently I've got few request regarding Java Web Application servers hosting. Beside this you can also run Linux (RedHat and CentOS) via BrandZ.

MrAndroid

@gbshouse said: Oracle Solaris 11 was released on the beginning of this year and recently I've got few request regarding Java Web Application servers hosting

Oh, I was looking at OpenSolaris. Sorry.

KuJoe

@gbshouse said: Do you know any low end Solaris Zones/Containers provider?

I've been trying to get something setup but I can't find a reliable (and free) Solaris distro.

gbshouse

I was thinking about buying some older Sun machine (got nice offer recently - in theory able to run few hundreds of VMs) but paying 1k per socket for Oracle support doesn't sound nice

DimeCadmium

@gbshouse said: but paying 1k per socket for Oracle support doesn't sound nice

I may just be ignorant (probably), but what do you mean by "socket"?

prometeus

Phisical cpu connected to the motherboard

MrAndroid

You could try BSD Jails.

rds100

I wonder why nobody has offered UML based VMs yet.

MrAndroid

@rds100 said: I wonder why nobody has offered UML based VMs yet.

Performance.

ShardHost

Linode actually started out by offering UML based containers

rds100

@DaddyCheeseHosting interesting, didn't know that.

gbshouse

@DimeCadmium - many vendors have dual CPU licensing model: per socket and per core (some CPUs [non x86] can have even 64 cores). Socket is a physical socket on motherboard or CPU card, core is core :) Imagine support price for 16 or 32 CPU (socket) machines :D

DimeCadmium

Ah, I wasn't sure if you were referring to CPU sockets or some other type :) that's not gonna be fun ;)

My dad used to work high up in IBM's CPU physical design team... had access to a like 256GB ram, 128 core machine or something like that (I don't remember, it was "insanely" high-specced though, to run design builds on I guess? not sure)... SO JELLY. And this was back a good 4 or 5 years ago probably, as well...

KuJoe

We have a graveyard of Sun machines at work but once OpenSolaris died, it's been hard to find a free alternative. :(

raindog308

NetBSD!

I jest...

gbshouse

WebLogic/WebSphere on NetBSD ... sure :)

gbshouse

@raindog308 - PL?

raindog308

@gbshouse said: PL?

Not sure what you're asking for.

Private Link? Polish Language? Pretty Lingerie?

prometeus

@raindog308 said: Pretty Lingerie?

This is always interesting to watch :-)

rds100

@prometeus how are you after the earthquake today? Hope everything is OK with you.

gbshouse

@raindog308 - "I jest..." sounds like Polish language

raindog308

It's actually an Apple product.

gbshouse

OK ... a little bit confusing name :) by the way I like your blog entry about Gun People :D

ozfingwe

hmm would be interesting, but I doubt anyone would be offering much here except spare capacity that has already been written off. Solaris virtualisation simply stopped being competitive compared to either Intel or P7 based VMs.

prometeus

@rds100 said: how are you after the earthquake today? Hope everything is OK with you.

All is ok, thank you!

charliecron

"My dad used to work high up in IBM's CPU physical design team... had access to a like 256GB ram, 128 core machine or something like that "

I work on these. They are IBM P595's. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/systemp/highend/595/index.html

Only up to 64 cpu's though, but with simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) on AIX it would look like 128 cpu's to the OS. They can take up to a TB of RAM.

They are out with Power 7 chips now though with much higher density. I think they call 'em P795's now, and they can take up to 256 processors.

nabo

@KuJoe said: but once OpenSolaris died, it's been hard to find a free alternative

Debian has a 32/64bit-SPARC port.

KuJoe

@nabo said: Debian has a 32/64bit-SPARC port.

Thanks but I need Solaris. :(

Cheesymac

OpenIndiana, anyone? We're testing it for storage needs now (lot of Solaris 10 fileservers) because it has all the goodness of ZFS but without the fat of FUSE on Linux.

http://openindiana.org/