Resource Management

When to Use Solaris Bandwidth Manager

Without any form of bandwidth management, it is difficult to maintain a network that has predictable performance characteristics. Nevertheless, this is how most networks are run today. Network usage is estimated or modeled, and then enough bandwidth is configured to achieve respectable latencies. Enough is a relative term, it could mean that there will always be sufficient bandwidth for all applications that would possibly need it, or it could mean that the network is oversubscribed, knowing that on average only a certain percentage of users is actually using the network. When new applications are deployed, or existing applications become more popular, links become congested and users start complaining about ...