Hello forum users,

I am finishing computer science studies this year and I need to creat
thesis. I'm interested in Solaris containers and would like to describ
this technology. I want to create a project that uses containers to d
“something useful” and provides some functionality, not only shows ho
to create zones and assign resources.

I have an Ultra 10 with Ultra Sparc IIi 300MHz CPU , 512 MB RAM and 2
GB HDD available. Does someone have any idea how to show practical us
of containers on such machine?

Other solution I think about is just to design containers withou
implementation, so I would not need any hardware. But unfortunately
do not have administration experience to decide about resourc
allocation

Could you please advice if you have any ideas about using containers o
Ultra 10, or if you can provide any other suggestions for usin
Containers in practice.

Many thanks,
Ada

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:03:07 -0700 luzak <luzak.2nyk8g@no-mx.unixadmintalk.com> wrote:
> I have an Ultra 10 with Ultra Sparc IIi 300MHz CPU , 512 MB RAM and 20
> GB HDD available. Does someone have any idea how to show practical use
> of containers on such machine?

create a dns server zone and a shell server zone. containers will
ensure that the dns server zone always has some resources available
to answer dns queries.

there are many examples like this, you don't have to stick to a dns
server and a shell server.

-frank

luzak wrote:
> Hello forum users,
>
> I am finishing computer science studies this year and I need to create
> thesis. I'm interested in Solaris containers and would like to describe
> this technology. I want to create a project that uses containers to do
> “something useful” and provides some functionality, not only shows how
> to create zones and assign resources.
>
> I have an Ultra 10 with Ultra Sparc IIi 300MHz CPU , 512 MB RAM and 20
> GB HDD available. Does someone have any idea how to show practical use
> of containers on such machine?
>
> Other solution I think about is just to design containers without
> implementation, so I would not need any hardware. But unfortunately I
> do not have administration experience to decide about resource
> allocation
>
> Could you please advice if you have any ideas about using containers on
> Ultra 10, or if you can provide any other suggestions for using
> Containers in practice.
>
> Many thanks,
> Adam
>
>

A Thesis that simply describes the work someone else has done is not
going to impress anyone very much, especially if it is a Doctoral Thesis!

Can you show a different, and hopefully better, way to implement
containers? You should note that IBM did something similar with
"virtual machines" back in the late 1980's or early 1990's. Can you
show a new use for containers that no one has proposed before?

Most theses gather dust until they turn to dust! Can you do better?

Containers are nice for when you wish to upgrade or migrate services. Since
everything related to a service (e.g., a mail server) is defined within
the container (IP, disk, etc.) and all of the configuration information is
also in the container, it makes the service very portable. One need only
detach the zone, make the zone directory available to another system,
attach the zone to the new system. You've pretty much instantly migrated
the service. Cloning a service is similarly easy with containers.

-tom

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