Resource Management 
by Richard McDougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Enrique Vargas, Evert Hoodendoorn, and Tom Bialaski
July, 1999
334 pages
The scope of Resource Management can be summarized as:
- The best way to use combinations of Sun Microsystems products to manage resources.
- Generic resource management concepts and methods.
- Comparison of UNIX system practices with mainframe class practices.
Sun's range of products provide a lot of built-in flexibility that can be deployed in many ways to meet the requirements of several markets. The documentation for these products covers all the options but normally provides only basic information about how these products can be used with other products. This book, on the other hand, focuses on resource management, looks at products that are relevant, gives detailed and specific information about how to choose the right set of products and features to solve resource management problems.
To solve the problem, products must fit into an overall methodology that addresses the processes of workload consolidation and service level management. The principles are explained with reference to tools and products that can help implement each scenario. To manage the service level you provide, you must be able to measure and control the resources consumed by it.
Resource Management is divided into thirteen chapters:
- Chapter 1, Introduction
- Chapter 2, Service Level Management
- Chapter 3, Policies and Controls
- Chapter 4, Workload Management
- Chapter 5, Workload Measurements
- Chapter 6, Solaris Operating Environment
- Chapter 7, Solaris Resource Manager Software
- Chapter 8, Dynamic System Domains and Dynamic Reconfiguration
- Chapter 9, Solaris Bandwidth Manager Software
- Chapter 10, Load Sharing Facility Software
- Chapter 11, Project StoreX
- Chapter 12, Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0 Software
- Chapter 13, IBM Workload Manager for OS/390
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