Virtualization Controller Considerations

An agent on an Oracle Solaris Zone Virtualization Controller installed on a system with one (1) processor and 128 GB of memory can manage with a good level of performance:

  • 50 non-global zones with one (1) filesystem configured on each non-global zone.

  • 15 non-global zones with 20 filesystems configured on each non-global zone.

An agent on an Oracle VM Server for SPARC Virtualization Controller installed on a system with one (1) processor and 128 GB of memory can manage, with a good level of performance, 20 logical domains with 25 disks (LUNs) configured on each domain.

For both configurations described above, the agent deployment time will take less than one hour and the restart time will be about 15 minutes. The CPU consumption of the agent should not exceed 5 percent.