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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It's a short path -- a mere four steps -- to virtualize existing Oracle Solaris 10 physical systems into Oracle Solaris Containers: check, capture, construct, and configure. An Oracle white paper explains just how easy this process is and how, among its other advantages, Oracle Solaris Containers provides an easy upgrade path to forthcoming Oracle Solaris releases.
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Vintage customer support for Solaris 2.6 and 7 have reached retirement. Support calls will no longer be accepted and patch access will no longer be available for these versions, Sun reports. It is recommended that all customers using Solaris upgrade to the latest release, version 10.
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The Solaris 9 Operating System has reached its end of life (EOL) as Sun announced that the last order date for this Unix version will be July 31, 2009. Consequently, the last ship date will be October 30 of this year and end of service life on the same day just five years later (October 30, 2014).
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