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.
This Blog is now reachable via IPv6 http://2A00:CD0:1:1810::15 in addition to IPv4. As my DNS provider Hosteurope does not support AAAA DNS records, which is necessary for resolving www.wiik.de to the IPv6 address, I also have to switch my DNS to UM. The unbelievable Machine Company in Berlin offers a IPv6 hosting and DNS infrastructure. Moving the domains to another provider will need a couple of days, of course. By the way, this blog is running in a Dual Stack IPv4 / IPv6 Sun Solaris 10 10/08 Zone on ZFS, now.
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
is online on docs.sun.com. I hope, Solaris 11/06 is downloadable on monday.
Regarding to the Blog of Ben Rockwood, Solaris 10 11/06 is entering beta. There are lot of new features in Solaris 10/06, the important ones are listed here:
- Secure by Default (pdf)
- Solaris Trusted Extensions
- APOC 1.2
- Enhanced Security for Limited Networking Profile
- Macromedia Flash Player v 7 for Solaris
iSCSI Target Disk Support- Packet Filtering Hooks for IP Filter
- Network Layer 7 Cache
- Zone Cloning, Moving and Migration
- Configurable Zone Privileges
- ZFS file system enhancements
- Java Desktop System support for Access Control Lists in Nautilus
- Upgrade to Japanese IM Language Engine to Wnn8
- Sun Java System Message Queue Platform Edition 3.7
- Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8.2
- SNIA Multipath Management API support
ZFS for root disk is still not in Solaris 10, hope to have it soon.
Just found the announcement of EMC2, that EMC Legato NetWorker 7.3.2 supports Sun solaris ZFS Filesystem including ZFS and NFSv4 ACLs. There’s also limited support for installations in non-global Solaris 10 Zones. We’ll try this within the next weeks.
For all of you, who are still on Sun Solaris 7, 8 or 9, there’s a very cool page on sun.com, which is showing the difference between these four Solaris versions.
Solaris 10, Release 6/06 is now downloadable for free for Sparc and X86 / AMD64 Opteron Architectures as DVD or CD images. Solaris 10 6/06 is the first Solaris production release with ZFS, the brand new filesystem.
Scheinbar trennen uns nur noch wenige Tage von dem Erscheinen von Solaris 10, Release 6/06. Der erste Blog Eintrag im Solarium verrät schon was dazu. Ich bin gespannt, nicht nur auf ZFS.
Update: Auf docs.sun.com gibt es mittlerweile das Dokument “What’s New in the Solaris 10 6/06 Release“
