Application and Database Server Consolidation on the Sun Fire X4600 Server Using Solaris Containers 
by Kevin Kelly
October, 2006
The combined capabilities of the Sun Fire X4600 server and Solaris Containers technology afford considerable promise as a consolidation platform. The Sun Fire X4600 server provides high performance, optimized energy efficiencies, and unparalleled scalability and virtualization options. Solaris Containers provide an isolated and secure runtime environment for applications, enabling multiple services to run efficiently and without conflict on the same platform.
This paper explores the use of a Sun Fire X4600 server as a consolidation platform for multiple database and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) application servers. It describes the processes and methodologies used in the consolidation, and details the steps used to configure the Solaris Containers. In addition, this paper describes the J2EE application server workload testing used to determine the effectiveness of this approach and validate the benefits of consolidating these services on a single system.
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