Solaris containers

Hello,
I have been using sparc workstations :SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Total 4 such machines. Users use it for mpich programming and all run solaris 8
but I always have hard time maintaining these machines. Authentication for these machines work from solaris 10 using NIS and there are nfs mounts on each work station.
I am wondering if it would be possible to move these 4 workstations on solaris 10 on V240 by using solaris containers.
V240 is having 8GB of memory. I am wondering if this is possible?
Please guide me , thanks

Wow. That usually makes things more centralized and easier to maintain. What is your main concern as far as maintenance goes?My concern is , i do not want to see " can't open boot device" "disk error" kind of messages. I do not want these work stations shock me suddenly going offline due to any hardware failure. it has been happening regularly with these workstations such type of things..every time I have to tak out HDD and try it in different machines, if that does not help then mirror another disk put it in these workstations...my space in the room going waste..these machines need keyboard connected to boot them..i do not have spare ones if something goes wrong with existing ones...more important is system is going down anytime causing loss of work to logged in users...
always these systems go out of swap space, there is limited disk space, /var gets filled, can't patch them, some days back , it was not hard disk issue but I had to move hard disk to other machine , looks like bad memory on original machine...so such issues...
Probably. How do you think that would make them simpler to maintain?I will not have to worry for all above I guess. basically i don't think i should wait for this hardware to die. Also buying 4 separate sparc machines would be costly. what better way is there than using containers ?
Please guide
Thanks for replying...

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