Patrol enhances Sun Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration on StarfirePalo Alto 06 March 2001 Sun has worked with BMC Software to integrate Sun's automated Dynamic Systems Domains with BMC Software's PATROL to produce a new solution for Workload-based Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration (LADR). BMC Software developed its PATROL for Sun Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration (ADR) solution specifically for Sun to monitor system performance and proactively manage the domains of the Sun Enterprise 10000 Starfire server.
PATROL for Sun ADR provides Sun's Starfire server customers
with truly automatic, capacity-based workload management of
their server domains. With "on the fly" load balancing,
workloads are monitored within domains and CPUs are
automatically dynamically reconfigured (DR) between domains in
response to workload changes. Using PATROL for Sun ADR,
customers can dramatically lower their total cost of ownership
and increase utilization on a Starfire server.
In combination with Sun's Starfire server and the 'TurboDR'
system board, which provides near instantaneous CPU resources
to the target domain and greatly reduces DR time, PATROL for
Sun ADR automatically and quickly balance system resources
between multiple system domains to optimize overall system
capacity utilization.
Sun's Starfire server's Dynamic System Domains feature
mainframe-like partitioning capabilities, allowing a single
Starfire server to be logically divided into multiple systems
or stand-alone servers. Capacity-based dynamic Workload-based
dynamic reconfiguration allows data center managers to create,
resize or delete partitions on the fly, without rebooting or
even being present. This reconfiguration capability helps to
enable effective and flexible management of a site's resources
for optimal utilization.
In addition to this leading-edge work, Sun offers other
capabilities that enhance the manageability of the Starfire
server. Sun's Capacity On Demand (COD) on Sun Enterprise
Servers allows customers to maximize the financial benefits of
the systems. With Sun's COD servers, a customer can acquire
and install additional headroom processors in their Sun
Enterprise Servers, which they can activate and pay for when
dynamically added to the system. Thus, the COD processors
become part of the resource pool that can be made available to
the system to address unpredictable demands on the system
resources, but are not paid for until they are needed.
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