And five months later, another Solaris 10 release, with some very nice ZFS enhancements. You can download and use Solaris 10 U8 10/09 for free.
- System Administration Enhancements
- Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS
- pcitool Utility
- ZFS Features and Changes
- ZFS and Flash installation support
- Setting ZFS user and group quotas
- Using ZFS ACL pass through inheritance for execute permission
- Using cache devices in your ZFS storage pool
- ZFS property enhancements (like properties to control the behavior of the ARC and the L2ARC
- ZFS log device recovery
- ZFS ACL Sets
- nss_ldap shadowAccount Support
- Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0 Patch Set 6
- Installation Enhancements
- Turbo-Charging SVR4 Packaging
- System Resources Enhancements
- Zones Parallel Patching
- PVIO Drivers in Solaris 10 Guest Domains
- Device Management Enhancements
- iSCSI Initiator SMF Service
- LSI 6180 Controller Support in Solaris MPxIO
- System Performance Enhancements
- Callout Subsystem Scalability
- Driver Enhancements
- Driver for LSI MPT 2.0-Compliant SAS2.0 Controllers
- x86: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
- x86: Interrupt Remapping Support for Intel Vt-d
- x86: SATA Tape Devices Supported by the AHCI Driver
- Sun StorageTek 6Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA Driver
- Intel 82599 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
- Intel 82598 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
- Freeware Enhancements
- NTP Version 4.2.5
- PostgreSQL 8.1.17, 8.2.13, and 8.3.7
- Samba 3.0.35
Also, some features were removed within this Solaris 10 release.
Solaris 10 05/09 or also called Solaris 10 Update 7 release seems to available within April / May 2009. Hope to see Intel Nehalem optimizations in S10U7 as these new Intel CPUs will also be available at this date.
As mentioned here and as you can see on this page, there are a lot of interesting new features in the upcoming Solaris 10 10/08 or also called Solaris 10 Update 6 release:
- Intel Xeon CPU/Memory Fault Management
- AMD64 CPU/Memory Fault Management
- Intel NUMA support
- Intel SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2 support
- AMD SSE4A support
- Xen-based paravirtualization guest support for network and disk
- ZFS boot / ZFS as a root file system ( yes !! )
- Solaris Containers update on attach
- Solaris Containers on a ZFS root file system
- Logical Domains support for disk and network Dynamic Reconfiguration
- PostgreSQL 8.3
Hope to hear more from Sun aboute the Update 6 and hope bits will be available for download, soon. Refering to this press release, Solaris 10 10/08 is scheduled to be available in mid-October.
UPDATE: Solaris 10 Update 6 is released on Halloween 2008 !
Look at the “What’s New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release” Documentation and
Download Solaris 10 10/08
Just tried to install Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 on a Dell Latitude D600 today. Wow, this was like installing MacOS on a Macbook, everything runs out of the box, display, ethernet, sound. Just have to check WLAN and BT, now.
Published on
October 22, 2007 in
Sun Solaris and glassfish.
Tags: apache, glassfish, mysql, OpenSolaris, rails, Solaris, Sun Solaris, tomcat, web2.0, Webserver, webstack, youtube.
See and hear more on project Webstack, PHP, Glassfish V2 on Solaris on YouTube.
Published on
October 8, 2007 in
BarCampBerlin, Berlin and pixelpark.
Tags: 2007, barcamp, BarCampBerlin, Berlin, pixelpark, Solaris, Sun, web-2.0, web2.0, web2open.
About one month left until Web2.0EXPO in Berlin. There’s also an “unconference” element with the Web2Open as a part of the Web 2.0 Expo. You can meet me at the Sun Microsystems stand, where I’ll present some Pixelpark 2.0 and Web Hosting solutions.
Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 is released and has a new installer! Great to see this update.
Download it or order a free DVD.
Update:
Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 VMware Image now available.
Published on
September 6, 2007 in
Sun Solaris.
Tags: 7300, Blade6000, Intel, Niagra2, Solaris, Sun, Sun Solaris, Tigerton, X6250, Xeon.
As mentioned on Jonathan’s Blog, Sun will release a new 4-socket 16-core Intel Xeon MP 7300 series server.
Some facts about Sun’s new 16-core Intel Server:
- 2U Rackmount Server
- 4 Sockets, 16 Cores in one Box
- Intel Tigerton 7300 Quad Core CPUs, currently up to 2,93Ghz/120W
- 32 DIMM Slots, up to 256GB RAM
- 8 hot-swap SAS 2.5″ Disks
Nice to see more than 4 disks in a Sun server. This was still a gap, comparing Sun Galaxy Servers to IBM or HP Boxes.
Hope that the Bios and ILOM will be better than ILOM of the Sun Blade 6000 X6250 modules, currently the Blade6000 feels quite beta compared to the Sun X4200 Bios and ILOM.
Solaris 10 Update 4 is released today !
Late, but now, we’re happy 
The product and download instructions for Solaris 10 8/07 are now available on sun.com:
http://www.sun.com/software/swportfolio/get.jsp
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/download_instruction.xml
The documentation for Solaris 10 Update 4, called Solaris 10 8/07 release, is now on docs.sun.com. The downloadable ISOs for U4 are still missing on sun.com. Hope to have them soon.
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