Resource Management
by Richard Mc Dougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, Tom Bialaski
The Consolidation Process
The consolidation process starts when you identify candidate systems and applications. First measure the resource usage and service levels of those systems so you can see which application workloads will fit together best.
Next, migrate those systems to a common Solaris release and patch revision and do some testing so you can be sure that everything works correctly in the same environment. You also need to make sure that there are no conflicts in the name service configuration and network services files. For example, local password files may need to be merged, and any conflicting port numbers specified in the /etc/services file may need to be cleared. If you use a name service such as NIS for all your password and services ...
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