Demonstration: OpenSolaris running on IBM mainframe
This week we’re at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas and we caught up with David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates. Boyes was demonstrating OpenSolaris running on an IBM System Zmainframe at the conference and we have him here in these five videos, giving you a first look.
Boyes’ team (which was responsible for bringing Linux to Big Iron) has been working on porting Solaris to the mainframe for 18 months. But Boyes won’t say when Solaris on System Zwill become available beyond “soon”.
According to Boyes, Sun customers that are sitting on a lot of small to medium-sized pizza box servers are facing the same problem as Wintel users - server sprawl. This port could allow users to consolidate some Solaris workloads onto the mainframe.
YouTube doesn’t like files over 100mb or movies over 10 minutes long, so we had to break the presentation up into five parts. Here are the rest of the videos:
Solaris on the mainframe demo Part II
Solaris on the mainframe demo Part III
Posted: November 28th, 2007 under Mainframe operating systems and management, Modern mainframes.
[…] 30 November 2007 In the past, the z/Series has been known for its virtualization of Linux servers (over 10,000 possible!). Now, someone is showing OpenSolaris running on z/Series at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. There is an excellent write-up from the Mainframe blog, and another post from Marc Hamilton. […]
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