Typical migrations and upgrades include the Solaris operating system, database applications, new administrative environments, and end-user applications. Software may be fully tested in isolation before being deployed system-wide. As an example, the system administrator could reserve system board number four and five as a domain, running Solaris, to debug new application software that will later be released into production. At the same time, system board number nine could be reserved as a separate domain for testing the newest operating system updates. Software errors generated from these domains would in no way affect the operation of the main Enterprise 10000 system.
Errors remain isolated to each domain, maintaining system availability and domain transparency.
Through the advanced synergy of the Enterprise 10000 server and Solaris, domains offer large sites with multiple software testing demands a safe, flexible method of reserving a portion of their computing resources to a secure environment. Domains increase productivity while decreasing debugging and testing errors across the system. In this way, the Enterprise 10000 server's system-wide availability and flexibility are greatly enhanced. The ability to flexibly manage processors and isolate system errors from debugging and testing environments greatly highlights the Enterprise 10000 server's dominance among the industry's leading computing environments in performance, flexibility, availability, and cost effectiveness. All rights reserved.