Sun Virtualization and Web 2.0 Technologies That Enable Interoperability

Updated September 1, 2009

This page provides the following resources for Sun virtualization and Web technologies that enable interoperability.

• General Virtualization and Web 2.0 Resources
• Solaris Containers, Solaris Zones, and LDoms Resources
• Sun xVM Portfolio and Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Resources
• Sun GlassFish Portfolio Resources
• Solaris OS + AMP (SAMP) Resources
• Sun Java System Access Manager Resources

General Virtualization and Web 2.0 Resources

• The BigAdmin Virtualization Resource Center, which provides info about Sun virtualization technologies, virtualization benefits, potential savings, and the different types of virtualization (such as server virtualization, OS virtualization, and storage virtualization)

• BigAdmin Virtualization Resource Collection, which lists virtualization resources on BigAdmin as well as third-party resources and community submissions

• Sun's Virtualization Solutions web site, which provides virtualization basics, info about key virtualization solutions, a link to the Virtualization Learning Center, and more

• The Virtualization page on opensolaris.com *, which provides an overview of Solaris Containers, Logical Domains (LDoms), xVM Hypervisor, and Sun VirtualBox

• Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System, a Sun BluePrints paper (registration required) that shows how to scale a medium-sized Web 2.0 site with a million registered users using Olio, an open source Web 2.0 toolkit, and open source technologies

Solaris Containers, Solaris Zones, and LDoms Resources

• The Sun Resources/Solaris Virtualization Technologies tab of the BigAdmin Virtualization Resource Center, which provides links to documentation, how-to guides, blogs, demos, BigAdmin XPert sessions, and more

• LDoms Community Cookbook, which is a living wiki document that provides basic and advanced procedures for Logical Domains

• Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

  • Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Solaris Containers, which provides an overview of Solaris Containers, including Solaris Zones and the Solaris Resource Manager, and guidelines for running an Oracle database in a Solaris Container

  • Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun Logical Domains, which provides an overview of Oracle RAC and LDoms, and discusses various deployment options

  • Deploying Sugar CRM Software on Logical Domains for Increased Scalablity, which describes the use of Sun Logical Domains and the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server to provide a scalable platform for deploying the Sugar Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software

  • Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Solaris Zone Clusters, which provides an overview of zone clusters, describes how zone clusters work with Oracle RAC, and describes the various Oracle RAC configurations supported on zone clusters

  • Using Sun Systems to Build a Virtual and Dynamic Infrastructure, which describes deploying a virtual and dynamic data center infrastructure using the Sun Blade 6000 modular system, Logical Domains, and the Scalent V/OE software with clients running Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems

Sun xVM Portfolio and Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Resources

• The Sun Resources/Sun xVM Portfolio tab of the BigAdmin Virtualization Resource Center, which provides resources for the Sun Ops Center, Sun xVM VirtualBox, Sun VDI software, and Sun xVM Hypervisor technology

• The Types of Virtualization/Desktop tab of the BigAdmin Virtualization Resource Center, which provides more resources for Sun VDI software

• Sun Ops Center web page, which provides links to videos, podcasts, blogs, feature and benefit info, the Open xVM community, and more

• Sun Desktop Virtualization web page

• Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Virtualizing the Dynamic Datacenter (pdf), a white paper that summarizes the benefits and challenges of traditional virtualization strategies, the advantages of Sun's approach, and the core capabilities of the Sun xVM portfolio for virtualizing and managing a cross-platform infrastructure from the desktop to the data center

• Virtualization for the Next-Generation Data Center (pdf), which describes Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series-based Sun Servers Running Sun Ops Center Software

• Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

  • The Managed Desktop Factory: Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software as a Service, which suggests an operational model for a desktop environment that optimizes operations and describes the next steps toward industrializing IT services as a managed desktop factory

  • Virtualizing Desktops With Sun Ray Software and VMware View Manager, which describes a reference implementation for desktop virtualization deployments that combines Sun Ray software, Sun Ray thin clients, and VMware View Manager to provide access to resilient and secure desktop environments

Sun GlassFish Portfolio Resources

• Web site for the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, which provides info about this complete cost-effective open Web application platform, including:

  • The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server (formerly Sun Java System Application Server), a leading open source and open community platform for building and deploying next-generation applications and services
  • The GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project Open ESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform
  • The GlassFish Web Stack, an integrated stack of popular open-source, Web-tier infrastructure technologies (such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP, and Ruby) optimized for the Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux platforms, which can be downloaded alone or as part of the comprehensive GlassFish Portfolio
  • The GlassFish Web Space Server, Sun's next-generation portal server platform

• Web site for GlassFish Community *

• Metro *, a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack that can be used for simple web services or reliable, secured, and transacted web services that involve Microsoft .NET services

• Metro Web Services Overview on the Sun Developer Network (SDN) web site

• Metro screencasts *

• Sun white papers and Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

  • Best Practices for Deploying TWiki Software On GlassFish Application Server Using LRWPinJava. This Sun BluePrints article describes best practices for deploying TWiki software on Sun's open source GlassFish application server. Utilizing the Java technology long-running Web process (LRWP) protocol and running on the Solaris OS, the platform can run up to twice the speed of Apache HTTP Server software implementations running on the Solaris OS. The result is reduced system overhead and the ability to accommodate greater numbers of users.

  • Open Network Systems for Internet Infrastructure, MySQL Edition. This Sun BluePrints article describes a new Sun reference architecture that combines Sun Open Storage, Sun's MySQL Enterprise Server, the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the ZFS file system, and a choice of OpenSolaris, Solaris, or Linux operating systems into an integrated enterprise portal solution for Web and enterprise environments.

  • Build a High-Performance, Open Web Platform for Your Enterprise With Sun GlassFish Portfolio. This white paper describes how the Sun GlassFish Portfolio can be used to build an open web platform in environments that must support competing standards.

Solaris OS + AMP (SAMP) Resources

• Sun Optimized Web Stack for the Solaris OS, which provides info about Sun Web Stack (previously called CoolStack), which provides a LAMP and SAMP stack for building and deploying Web services and applications

• Beyond LAMP: SAMP...LGPJ...LAMJ..., a Sun Developer Network (SDN) article that describes various open source software that can be used to build web development software stacks

• Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS, an SDN article

• "Web tier @ your service!" blog:

  • Sun Web Stack 1.4, which explains that Sun GlassFish Web Stack takes over where CoolStack left off

  • New Announcing Web Stack 1.5 Release, Delivering Enterprise Capabilities, which describes the new capabilities of Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5

  • New Web Stack 1.5 Release, Fully Relocatable Distribution With an Update Tool, which describes how Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 is fully relocatable and can be updated using the update tool that is bundled with the distribution

• LAMP-SAMP resources on BigAdmin wiki

• Sun BluePrints papers (registration required):

  • New Deploying the AMP Stack in Virtualized Environments - Taking a Step Towards Cloud Computing, which describes how to deploy the AMP stack in a virtualized environment and provides best practices, such as using the Solaris ZFS file system to reduce virtual server deployment times to half a minute and using Project Crossbow technology to set up a virtual network that manages traffic for the multiple AMP stacks that run on the physical system

  • Addressing Systemic Qualities in SAMP Architectures, which describes best practices for deploying SAMP architectures and the advantages of deploying Web 2.0 applications on a SAMP stack

Sun Java System Access Manager Resources

Three-part Sun Developer Network (SDN) series about Sun Java System Access Manager:

• Sun and Microsoft Interoperate for Web Authentication, Part 1. This article elaborates on how to integrate Active Server Pages (ASP) and ASP.NET applications into a single sign-on (SSO) environment with Sun Java System Access Manager and the Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agent for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

• Sun and Microsoft Interoperate for Web Authentication, Part 2: Sun Java System Access Manager and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 . Part 2 describes how to integrate SharePoint with Sun Java System Access Manager for SSO. Afterward, once Sun Java System Access Manager has authenticated a user, that person can--without having to log in again--access the other sites that are also configured for SSO through Sun Java System Access Manager.

• Sun and Microsoft Interoperate for Web Authentication, Part 3: Sun Java System Access Manager and Microsoft Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2003. Part 3 describes how to integrate Sun Java System Access Manager and OWA for single sign-on. Users can then authenticate with Sun Java System Access Manager and perform email tasks without logging in again.