[ucc] minutes 2007-10-05

[Simon Oxwell]

Adrian Chadd wrote:
[Solaris Containers]
> Think "FreeBSD Jails" for Solaris but so much cooler (ie, "here's some
> RAM, here's some CPU time on these CPUs, their maximum value is X, and
> these zones now share that container.")
> 
> I'm playing around with it at home with an eye to use it at EE to make
> some of their stuff neater. It seems the right way to go even if you're
> only thinking about running one OS image, as I know what happens
> at UCC (hm, need to do X, machine Y isn't very powerful, lets use that!)


Yes, they're very cool. We're running some heavily used production stuff 
on some 8 core T2000's out of zones. Zones, plus granular user 
privileges and some sensible firewall rules, can make a quite secure 
forward-facing server.


Simon

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