OVM SPARC Agent End of Life

Extended Support for the OV Manager SPARC Agent ended by June 2024.
No patches are provided by Oracle anymore.

It is expected OVM SPARC Agent will not work anymore in 2025,
after old insecure components will be removed from Solaris.

Details in MOS DOC:
OVM : SPARC Solaris Support in OVM Environment After The End of OVM Extended Support. (Doc ID 3041724.1)

With JomaSoft VDCF we offer a complete and easy to use CLI solution to deploy, operate
and monitor Solaris SPARC LDoms.

WebCasts, Documentation and a Free Trial Version is available on
https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/

Why we are using SPARC LDoms

Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC Servers include the LDoms Technology. There are no additional costs.
If you see the "Marketing" name 'Oracle VM Server for SPARC'. That is exactly this LDoms Technology.

You can create individual Domains with dedicated CPU and RAM resources running
different Solaris Releases. Use of CPU and RAM is very efficient, because there is no software layer involved. You can add and remove CPU and RAM while the LDoms is running!

Access to Disk and Network can be done virtualized. Performance is good. Using such a virtualized setup the Domains can be live migrated between Servers with the same type of CPU. You can cold migrate (with downtime) between different types of Server in a few minutes.

You place different customers and applications in different LDoms. Good aproach to consolidate your environment.

We at JomaSoft use this technology very successful since years ourselfs and at customer sites.
Our VDCF tool makes deployment and management of LDoms very easy.

Learn more:
https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/vm-server-for-sparc/

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/ovmsparc-best-practices-2334546.pdf

https://blog-archive.global.fujitsu.com/easy-flexible-control-of-your-virtualized-datacenter-with-vdcf-2/ 

https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/

DOAG Conference 2014

The DOAG Conference took place in Nuermberg (Germany) last week with more than 2000 attendees. Markus Flierl (@MarkusFlierl1, VP Solaris Development at Oracle) did the Opening Keynote about Solaris and SPARC. SPARC M7 sounds very promising for Solaris and the Oracle database.

Because most attendees are from the German speaking countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) most articles and presentations are in German.

DOAG Homepage

Links to my 3 presentations about Solaris and LDoms (German only)
Effizienter Solaris 11 Betrieb mit VDCF (2 MB PDF)
Wie setzt Swisscom Solaris 11 ein (2 MB PDF)
LDOM Performance optimieren  (2 MB PDF)