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22 Apr 2013 Solaris 11 outperforms RHEL 6 on 2 socket Intel servers [30731]
Compare SPECjbb on servers with same Intel chips

Along time Sun employee writes, "I've often heard the term "Slow-laris" applied to Oracle's premier Unix operating system. Most frequently this was in comparison to the Linux OS running on small two socket servers. I will admit that in the Solaris 8 and 9 timeframe engineering decisions were made to benefit scalability to 64 sockets that sometimes penalized smaller servers. In addition, because of Solaris long history and derivation from ATT and BSD Unix code, there was undoubtedly a bit of code labeled, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

With the advent of Solaris 10 and Dynamic Tracing, (DTrace) we actually hunted down and killed a number of those legacy code segments using a new philosophy labeled internally, "If Solaris is slower than Linux on the same hardware, it's a bug."

As a result, Solaris 11 provides higher performance than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 on basically identical 2 socket hardware as measured by the SPECjbb benchmark..."
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08 Nov 2012 How to Migrate Oracle Database 10 From Oracle Solaris 8 to Oracle Solaris 11 [28394]
Using the Oracle Solaris 8 P2V (Physical to Virtual) Tool

Orgad Kimchi has created a procedure for migrating Oracle Database from Oracle Solaris 8 to Oracle Solaris 11. His procedure utilizes the Oracle Solaris 8 P2V (physical to virtual) Archiver tool to migrate a physical Oracle Solaris 8 system with Oracle Database 10.2.0.5 and an Oracle Automatic Storage Management file system located on SAN storage connected via a Fibre Channel HBA into an Oracle Solaris 8 branded zone inside an Oracle Solaris 10 guest domain on top of an Oracle Solaris 11 control domain. Kimchi demonstrates both how to preserve the host information and how to modify the host name.
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09 Sep 2011 The risk problem: "If it ain't broke ... it will be"; Sept 29th Webinar [24557]
Legacy Lowdown – Options when migrating legacy Solaris applications

The battle cry of IT brinksmanship, "If it ain't broke, don’t fix it," means that risk has triumphed over cost. This fate is commonplace for legacy applications which can be found sitting on an outdated/unsupported box, running on ancient OS sporting a "Do Not Touch" sign.

Not important enough to fix; too important to fail. These applications are at risk of failure. And everyone knows it.

AppZero offers an alternative that changes the risk/cost math by eliminating the risk at a slashed cost/effort – with no re-engineering or coding required.

Over the last few years, we have helped a number of significant IT operations use our application virtualization solution to migrate their legacy Solaris applications onto newer systems that are reliable and powerful systems. Prior to learning about AppZero, these organizations lived with risk hunting spare parts for their hardware systems from Ebay and Craigslist – sites that, like the old buffalo grounds, are now hunted-out. At this point, risk becomes probability.
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26 May 2011 Oracle Completes Certification of Oracle RAC 11gR2 (with Clusterware) on Oracle Solaris 10 Containers ("Zones"). [24205]
Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Daasestabase and RAC Product Releases

Oracle has posted a tabular list of Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases that identifies those virtualization/partitioning technologies already supported and reaffirms the policies that each new OS and its complementary virtualization/partitioning technology, must be certified by Oracle and, further, that each new OS plus its virtualization/partitioning solution must be guaranteed by the appropriate hardware vendor to be backward compatible to the version listed in the tables cited in the above link.
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21 Mar 2011 Solaris 10 Operating System Documentation [24004]
Links for Docs by Solaris Release

The "documentation for Solaris 10 Operating System" page includes links to the HTML and/or PDF versions of the documents for each of the releases of Solaris 10:

  • Oracle Solaris 10 update 9 9/10
  • Solaris 10 update 8 10/09
  • Solaris 10 update 7 5/09
  • Solaris 10 update 6 10/08
  • Solaris 10 update 5 5/08
  • Solaris 10 update 4 8/07
  • Solaris 10 update 3 11/06
  • Solaris 10 update 2 6/06
  • Solaris 10 update 1 1/06
  • Solaris 10 (3/05)

Other docs cover VTS and the Java Desktop System.
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