A new smf service svc:/system/zones-monitoring:default will execute a zones monitoring daemon. This daemon will implement monitoring the system configuration, managing extended accounting, and computing memory utilization on behalf of clients.

# zonestat 5 1
    SUMMARY
                        -----CPU------------- ----PHYSICAL--- ----VIRTUAL----
                   ZONE USED %PART %CAP %SHRU USED  PCT  %CAP  USED  PCT %CAP
                [total] 9.74   30%    -     - 7576M  23%    - 11.6G  24%    -
               [system] 0.28  0.8%    -     - 6535M  19%    - 10.4G  21%    -
                 global 9.10   28%    -     -  272M 0.8%    -  366M 0.7%    -
              kodiak-ab 0.32  1.0%    -     -  256M 0.7%    -  265M 0.5%    -
             kodiak-rie 0.00  0.0%    -     - 22.7M 0.0%    - 49.4M 0.1%    -

# zonestat -p -r memory -q -R average,high 30s 24h 1h

Word about this leaked out during QLogic's earnings call July 22 and was first blogged about by Wikibon analyst Stuart Miniman and Silicon Angle's John Furrier. But neither obtained comment or perspective from QLogic, the supplier of Oracle's—as well as other systems makers'—server and storage adapters that enable FCOE.

"To date, Oracle has not announced any converged networking support for any of its servers [or storage]," Steve Zivanic, QLogic senior director of corporate communications, told eWEEK. "The news is that now they are bringing network convergence to this stack. We're enabling them to have the connectivity for these new virtual data centers."

Oracle, like several other systems providers, brands its stack as its own and doesn't broadcast what components it licenses to put inside its boxes. But since the QLogic connection became public at the earnings call, the topic is now fair game.

VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only; does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it)