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Virtualization, NetBeans Wins Jolt Dev Environment, Cool ZFS Demo (Video)
posted Friday, 7 March 2008
 Also in a continuing acknowledgement that NetBeans has captured the mindshare of developers and is innovating at a terrific pace - NetBeans has again captured the Jolt Awards for Developer Environments! You can read it here. Must See. Oh! If you missed it - Sun Germany has a public video demo of ZFS in action that is now in English and is quite humorous and educational. It's ZFS on USB memory sticks and it is a great video. | ||
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I have been looking at all sorts of virtualization the past two weeks - virtually all the technologies Solaris Containers (Zones), LDOMs, xVM and VMware (Sun now resells it as well) all are running Java apps. I've been in Chicago, Seattle and Portland - discussing various aspects of the pros and cons of each. Reality is my favorite is Solaris Containers although they may be the first choice for all projects and I have learned that various criteria may push to the other virtualization solutions. In Chicago, I took a refresher Solaris Containers class and was surprised at what has changed. Wow. Some nice Solaris Container resources are provided at the end of this blog entry. Some huge things I like about Solaris containers - they are free, they are light, you can clone/migrate them, you can restrict their privileges, you can use create processing caps on them, you can allocate processing pools (divide the processors available and the processing available) and they are easy to manage. Incidentally, on another front, I've been using VirtualBox and it is working quite nicely.