Tuesday, January 16, 2007

LDoms; partitioning feature in Sun Solaris

  • Sun Microsystems has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions.
  • The feature, called Logical Domains, or LDoms, is in Solaris 11/06.
  • the feature catches Sun partway up with Unix server rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
  • In addition, Sun plans to announce it will incorporate a feature comparable to LDoms, the open-source Xen hypervisor, in its "Galaxy" line of x86 servers in 2007.
Source : http://news.com.com/

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