[H-GEN] Solaris zones/chroot/vmware

[Adrian Sutton]

Hello Solaris type people!
I'm looking into ways that we can improve our integrations development 
and make it more efficiently.  What this effectively entails is that we 
need to install and run a wide range of enterprise software (Oracle, 
Vignette, Stellent, Documentum, etc).  Generally we only work on one 
integration at a time and thus need only Stellent OR Vignette but not 
both at the same time, however in the future we may need to be able to 
have a couple such systems running at once.  The load on any of these 
servers however is extremely light (single user) and we have previously 
been running them on Celeron 700's or SunBlade 100s.  That's been a 
little slow but bearable.

What we'd like to do is set up virtual machines so that we can easily 
boot the particular setup we need, store setups for later and isolate 
the various systems so we don't break stuff.

We currently have a Sun e250 running Solaris 8 (uname -a reports: SunOS 
canine 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250) which is under 
very light load but is running a couple of critical web-apps that we 
need to make sure aren't disturbed.

Noone in the office has any worthwhile knowledge of Solaris but getting 
in a consultant for a short period would be an option.

Any thoughts on what options are available to us?  Also useful would be 
suggestions on how to go about investigating how effective the solution 
would be and how to practice going through the setup (using some of the 
SunBlade 100s that are lying around is a definite option).

Thanks in advance,

Adrian Sutton.

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