news: Oracle Solaris 11 Express Download Available

Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 is now available for download .
You will also find an overview and documentation available at the following link:
Click Here:

Solaris 11 Express now allows administrators to test and deploy within their enterprise environments and greatly simplify their day to day operations. It contains many different technology innovations that are not available in Oracle Solaris 10 such as new package management tools and utilities, built-in network virtualization, and support for the latest hardware platforms. To see the list of features that
are new to Oracle Solaris 11 Express please Clicke Here:

Oracle Solaris 11 Express is the latest release of the OracleSolaris operating system. This release is the path forward for developers, end-users and partners using previous generations of OpenSolaris releases.
This release will provide administrators to access the latest technology and innovation that will form
a future Oracle Solaris 11 which will be released sometime in 2011.

Here is a youtube video tutorial if you wish to test it out in your virtualbox setup. Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hlrqlQAIc

news: Solaris 11 Express Summit

The slides are now available for the presentations at the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Summit at the LISA Conference which was hosted on Tuesday Nov 9th.
The event showcased Oracle Solaris 11 Express, targeting System Administrators and Architects.






 
Here are the slides available for the following presentations:

• Slide 1 Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11 Express, Markus Flierl
• Slide 2 Image Packaging System, Bart Smaalders
• Slide 3 Deploying Oracle Solaris 11 in the Enterprise, Dave Miner
• Slide 4 Advances in Solaris Networking with Crossbow and Beyond, Nicolas Droux
• Slide 5 Oracle Solaris Containers in Oracle Solaris 11 Express, Dan Price
• Slide 6 ZFS Features in Oracle Solaris Express, Cindy Swearingen
• Slide 7 New Security Features in Oracle Solaris 11 Express, Glenn Faden
• Slide 8 Deploying Applications Using SMF and Other Solaris 11 Features, Liane Praza

The stream of videos have been recorded and can be viewed at the following link: Click here

 

news: Oracle Solaris 10 Update 9 released

September 8, 2010 Oracle officially announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 and Oracle Solaris Studio12.2. For now we will be concentrating on Oracle Solaris 10 9/10. 

So what Solaris 10 U9 includes, let’s take quick tour -

There are some drastic changes under this update -

• The most awaited, Oracle Solaris Containers now provide enhanced “P2V” (Physical to Virtual) capabilities to allow customers to seamlessly move from existing Oracle Solaris 10 physical systems to virtual containers quickly and easily. At our project we developed a custom method to perform p2v from Solaris8/9 to Solaris 10 Container and to be honest we was really looking forward for this feature.
• Host ID Emulation - Migration of a physical Solaris 10 machine into a Zone with support for the HostID will allow more network management platforms to be virtualized while still retaining their licensing features.
• Oracle 11g Release 2 Support
• Networking and database optimizations for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC).
• Increased reliability for virtualized Solaris instances when deployed using Oracle VM for SPARC, also known as Logical Domains.

ZFS Changes -

• ZFS device replacement enhancements - namely autoexpand
• some changes to the zpool list command
• Holding ZFS snapshots
• Triple parity RAID-Z (raidz3)
• The logbias property
• Log device removal - at last
• ZFS storage pool recovery
• New ZFS system process – In this release, each storage pool has an associated process, zpool-poolname
• Splitting a mirrored ZFS storage pool (zpool split)

For more information - http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/821-1840/821-1840.pdf

Download - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/downloads/index.html