So You Want To Build a SPARC Cloud
- by user12601629
Did you ever wish you could get the industrial strength power of UNIX/RISC with the flexibility of cloud computing?  Well, now you can!  With recent advances from Oracle it's possible to build an incredibly high-performance, flexible, available virtualized infrastructure based on Solaris and SPARC.  Here's the recipe! 
  Authored in collaboration across the Oracle "Systems Group" team, we now have a complete best practice guide for you.  Click below to download it: 
   Best Practices for Building a Virtualized SPARC Computing Environment 
  Inside you'll find recommendations for how and when to leverage technologies like: 
   
    SPARC T4 
    OVM for SPARC hypervisor (version 2.2 and newer) 
    Solaris 11 
    Ops Center 12c 
    ZFS Storage Appliance 
    Oracle network switches 
   
  Based on following these best practices, you'll be able to construct a dynamic, virtualized infrastructure that allows for: 
   
    Easy, GUI-based provisioning on new VMs 
    Automated HA failover in the event of physical server failures 
    Automatic load balancing across a cluster of VM hosts 
    Complete end-to-end monitoring 
   
  You should download this paper and check it out.  Even if you aren't planning on buying all new hardware, and instead want to transform some existing gear into a dynamic virtualized environment then this paper will give you concrete info on what to do and the trade-offs you'll make. 
  Have fun getting started on your journey to build a SPARC cloud!