Efficient Consolidated/Virtualized Solaris Development Platform
6 external IPs
|A1|D1| |A2|D2| |A3|D3| -- A1=App1,D1=Db1,A2=App2,D2=Db2,A3=App3,D3=Db3
|Z1|Z2| |Z1|Z2| |Z1|Z2| -- ZFS pools, (~40GB share per zone)
|ZFS | |ZFS | |ZFS | -- 1x 80GB file-based virtual disk per OS
-SolEx-|-Sol10-|-Sol11- -- 3 Wmware Solaris 64-bit guests, 250/3 (~80GB vdisk per OS)
--VM1--|--WM2--|--WM3--| -- 3 virtual machines / test1 / test2 / devel
-WMware-HostOS--CentOS-- -- Minimized host OS, only VMware running. Internalnet access only.
|PHY D1|SWRAID1|PHY D2 |
Sun Fire X2100M2 HW
250gb Mirrored Disk, 2G RAM
^copy and paste into a fixed-width-terminal. The virtualization layer could also possibly be paravirtualization with Xen, but this isn't fully supported in the guest OS yet.
Imagine the possibilites with the extra virtualization layer above: easy migration, backup, management, resource capping, & more. We can even move this virtual disks to a new system without reinstallation.
What do you think? I really like the idea with VMware because it's so flexible. I realize there might be some performance overhead using this solution. What do you all think?
B R,
/Magnus
