Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-26 Thread Carisdad
Mark Mulligan wrote: Hi Community, I was wondering if any customers had done an evaluation on the administrative time or cost (same thing really) improved by using the efficiencies of Solaris Containers vs. managing individual servers with just one Solaris 10 global zone or one Solaris 8/9 in

Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-23 Thread Mads Toftum
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:19:53PM -0600, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > However, I have not heard of any formal analysis that tries to quantify > these benefits. My guess is that although there is some benefit, it > is not a huge percentage of the overall administrative cost of managing > each zone vs. m

Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-22 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 9/21/06, Mark Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering if any customers had done an evaluation on the administrative time or cost (same thing really) improved by using the efficiencies of Solaris Containers vs. managing individual servers with just one Solaris 10 global zone or

Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Kraus
On 9/21/06, Mark Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering if any customers had done an evaluation on the administrative time or cost (same thing really) improved by using the efficiencies of Solaris Containers vs. managing individual servers with just one Solaris 10 global zone or

Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-21 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Wee Yeh Tan wrote: > I do think there is an overall saving at least on my side although I > really need to ask the guys from the other groups to know for sure. Here's one qay zones will save time: deployment. Instead of going througha whole installation (seperate server), on

Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-21 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Mark, Here's what my organisation did with zones. We basically gave administrative privileges to the respective groups to manage their own zones. This turns out a lot cleaner since there is less overlap of responsibility and really improved turnaroud time launching new services. So the groups

Re: [zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Mark Mulligan wrote: Hi Community, I was wondering if any customers had done an evaluation on the administrative time or cost (same thing really) improved by using the efficiencies of Solaris Containers vs. managing individual servers with just one Solaris 10 global zone or one Solaris 8/9 in

[zones-discuss] Cost to Manage Solaris Containers vs. Just Global Zone?

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Mulligan
Hi Community, I was wondering if any customers had done an evaluation on the administrative time or cost (same thing really) improved by using the efficiencies of Solaris Containers vs. managing individual servers with just one Solaris 10 global zone or one Solaris 8/9 instance. This is a hot