Transitive’s mainstream datacenter consolidation solution is known as QuickTransit Server. This is the most widely-deployed enterprise version of QuickTransit, and it is used by enterprise IT managers worldwide to reduce the physical size and power/cooling requirements of their IT infrastructure, as well as simplifying system administration and infrastructure management by allowing broader standardization of server hardware and management tools. The robust QuickTransit Server is a popular solution for facilitating datacenter consolidation projects, since it is ideal for running a wide range of internally-developed and commercial Solaris/SPARC workloads on fast, efficient industry-standard server platforms, so that ageing SPARC-based hardware can be rapidly retired. Since the migrated Solaris/SPARC application binaries can run directly on QuickTransit Server, without requiring the expense and delays of porting or re-compilation projects, the resulting consolidation cost savings are immediate and substantial.

QuickTransit Server is designed to run workloads transported from SPARC-based servers running Solaris 8 and above – in other words, those versions of Solaris that are still actively supported by Sun (with patches and updates). Typically, these are relatively recent applications where the original installation media may still be available, so that redeploying on QuickTransit Server is an identical process to installing the application on the original server. When this is not the case, the deployed binaries can simply be copied across from the legacy SPARC-based server to the new server platform running QuickTransit. (For customers seeking a solution that can run applications from much older systems running versions of Solaris no longer supported -- such as Solaris 2.5.1 or Solaris 2.6 -- then QuickTransit Legacy is the appropriate product).

Clearly, QuickTransit Server is therefore a convenient solution for customers intending to run a wide range of internally-developed, open source or commercially-available applications that are reasonably well-documented and install in a standardized fashion. QuickTransit Server allows a modern industry-standard hardware platform to rapidly replace out of date SPARC-based servers in running such workloads, while avoiding the costs, delays and disruption of porting or recompilation projects.

QuickTransit Server can be deployed natively on an operating system (just like any other user-space application) or it can be installed within a virtual machine or partition within a virtualized environment. A virtualized installation delivers the added benefits of consolidation, so that many instances of QuickTransit Server can be deployed (along with their Solaris/SPARC workloads) inside virtual machines on a single physical host. Many QuickTransit Server customers find that the workloads from a large number of legacy SPARC-based servers can be consolidated onto a single industry-standard rack or blade with capacity to spare. This allows them the option to deploy multiple copies of the newly-virtualized Solaris/SPARC workloads to ensure high availability and improve overall disaster recovery capabilities. The virtualized Solaris/SPARC workloads also offer additional flexibility, since system administrators can easily adjust resources such as available memory, storage and virtual network bandwidth to optimize performance.

All in all, QuickTransit Server provides an excellent solution for breathing new life into old applications, by allowing customers to run native Solaris/SPARC workloads unmodified on smaller, cheaper and faster industry-standard server platforms, at performance levels far higher than the original SPARC-based hardware. When combined with server virtualization solutions, the additional consolidation, high availability and recoverability benefits make QuickTransit Server a compelling solution.

QuickTransit Server is available with a standard license that allows deployment in either native or virtualized environments, or with a discounted virtual-only license for situations where it will only ever be run within a virtual machine or partition. For the standard QuickTransit Server license, pricing is based on the number of populated processor sockets in the server. For the QuickTransit Server virtual-only license, pricing is based on the number of virtual CPUs assigned to a virtual machine.

QuickTransit Server will support Solaris/SPARC applications migrated from systems running Solaris 8 and above. When a solution is required for older legacy applications (such as those migrated from Solaris 2.5.1 or Solaris 2.6 systems) then it is necessary to deploy the QuickTransit Legacy product. Both QuickTransit Server and QuickTransit Legacy can be purchased directly from the Transitive Sales team or from Transitive global network of reseller partners.