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Archived Solaris Articles
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03 Jun 2011
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Hardware Compability List for Oracle Solaris [24227]
View It on Oracle Tech Network
The Oracle Tech Network now lists the "Hardware Compatibility List for Oracle Solaris," upgraded from the list originally compiled for BigAdmin by Robert Weeks. The HCL includes:
- Oracle Solaris 10 HCL
- Oracle Solaris 11 Express HCL
- Solaris for x86 Device List
- HCL Search
- Device Detection Tool
- Hardware Certification Test Suite
- Information about Oracle's Solaris-Ready Program
The HCL lists all the hardware, including servers, desktops, laptops, and peripheral devices, that are compatible with Oracle Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 Express.
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01 Jun 2011
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Oracle Solaris on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: White Paper [24220]
Perfect Solution for Meeting Consolidation Demands
The white paper "Oracle Solaris on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud" describes Oracle Solaris 11 Express on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud as a complete, integrated solution that offers the IT infrastructure needed to meet current rising demands for consolidation in the datacenter. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud itself, the paper continues, is the world's first and only integrated middleware machine, dramatically surpassing alternatives and providing the best possible foundation for running enterprise applications. Oracle Solaris delivers key datacenter advantages in performance, reliability, scalability, and security for Exalogic systems, where users will appreciate the optimal performance to be found in features such as Oracle Solaris Zones, and Oracle Solaris DTrace. Customers coming from Oracle Solaris systems today will be able to take advantage of physical to virtual movement to Oracle Solaris 10 Zones and/or source or binary compatibility, the paper concludes.
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30 May 2011
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Oracle Solaris 11 Express ZFS Technology [24214]
Web Site Compiles Several Resources
Gathered on Oracle's site devoted to Oracle Solaris 11 Express ZFS Technology are a number of resources that explain ZFS, the default file system in Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11, characterizing it as an " ... advance in data management with an innovative approach to data integrity, near-zero administration, and a welcome integration of file system and volume management capabilities." Among the desirable features of Oracle Solaris ZFS are:
- Solid data integrity with end-to-end checksums
- Self-healing file system prevents silent data corruption
- Security: supports on-disk encryption
- Greater efficiency through deduplication and compression
- Advanced data protection: supports triple-parity RAID
Resources include white papers, screencasts, product documentation and a forthcoming demo.
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26 May 2011
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x86 Optimization for Oracle Solaris [24215]
Oracle and Intel Make the New Solaris 11 a Powerful Solution
Oracle is working to make the most of Intel's innovations in x86 architecture, an effort that is best exemplified in the development of Oracle Solaris 11 OS. Oracle Solaris has a single source base supporting both x86 and SPARC platforms. The solution's numerous architecture-specific enhancements ensure the best in performance, robustness and reliability. These enhancements include:
- Latest instruction set support in Studio compilers
- Self Healing for x86 CPUs
- Kernel-level power management
- Support for high-bandwidth interconnects
- Optimization for Intel's QuickPath Interconnect
- Integration and test with entire Oracle Product Family
Readers will find a number of useful resources at the link cited above, including a download link to Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11.
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23 May 2011
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Introduction to the Oracle Solaris ZFS File System: Hands-on Lab [24122]
Tutorial Takes Participants Inside ZFS
Introduction to the Oracle Solaris ZFS File System is a hands-on tutorial on the basics of Oracle Solaris ZFS that describes how devices are used in storage pools and considers performance and availability. The tutorial also looks at the various types of Oracle Solaris ZFS datasets that can be created and when to use each type. Participants will learn about file system snapshots, cloning data, allocation limits and recovering from common errors. Advanced concepts such as hybrid storage pools will be demonstrated. The included exercises involve creating some zpools and exploring different types of virtual devices (vdevs). Participants will also create two different types of ZFS datasets, file systems and volumes, customizing some properties, snapshotting and cloning them, and finally performing some upgrades. The tutorial's advanced section deals with how some of the other Oracle Solaris services, like NFS (Network File System) and FMA (Fault Management Architecture) are tied into ZFS. Time to completion is estimated at 50 minutes.
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19 May 2011
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Oracle Solaris: Behind The Scenes With Product Management [24187]
Listening to the Users Gives Direction to the Development Process
Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Joost Pronk join host Charley Boyle in this episode of Oracle: In a Class by Itself to discuss Oracle Solaris 11 Behind the Scenes with Product Management, explaining how the solution has been (is being) developed. Pronk relates the means in use to solicit information from customers about what they were looking for in Solaris 11, using the Voice of the Customers process. Armes adds information on patching practices. Pronk also discusses the development of virtualization capabilities and the role of user information in determining development direction. The panel comments on how Oracle has incorporated comments from within the company in the design of the OS.
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