Oracle Solaris 11 Express:Network Automagic Phase

Software Components: SMF Services svc:/network/netcfg:default starts/stops configuration repository daemon, netcfgd svc:/network/physical:nwam method script: /lib/svc/method/net-nwam starts/stops profile management daemon, nwamd saves/restores “legacy” (non-nwam) location data svc:/network/location:default activates the selected location applies configuration services with location-managed configuration have ‘restart_on refresh’ dependency on location service some services explicitly refreshed by location service Software Components: Daemons Configuration repository daemon: . . . → Read More: Oracle Solaris 11 Express:Network Automagic Phase

Solaris 11 Express pkg

New in 2010.11: pkg(5) System All pkg(5) clients now support filesystem-based package repositories. (e.g. permits NFS-based deployment instead of http-based and removes need for pkg.depotd(1m) in some deployments) Package search order now fine-grained (can rank publishers instead of having a single preferred and a set of random non-preferred) Support concept of ‘publisher stickiness’ to ensure . . . → Read More: Solaris 11 Express pkg

Solaris 11 Express Installation

What is it? LiveCD Live Desktop Environment X86 media only GUI installer Text Installer Sparc and X86 media Text based installer Automated Installer Hands-free installation Network based installation Boot from network or media Text Installer Supports Sparc and X86 Does a cpio-based install of what’s on the media (similar to the GUI installer.) No network . . . → Read More: Solaris 11 Express Installation

Open Fabrics User Verbs (OFUV) – TOI

Agenda Overview – What is OFUV Architecture OFUV Components (userland) What were the challenges Installed files Kernel code Gates, source code layout and build Testing References OFED components provided by OFUV Libraries: libibverbs, libmthca, libmlx4, librdmacm, libsdp Internal foundation libraries for utility implementation libibcommon, libibmad, libibumad, libosmvendor, libopensm, libosmcomp, ibdiagnet, libibis and libibdm. Commands and . . . → Read More: Open Fabrics User Verbs (OFUV) – TOI

Solaris 11 Express ZFS

General ZFS Feature Recap Solaris 10 9/10 syncs to Nevada b131 except dedup The autoexpand property but no dynamic LUN expansion: SD support not backported (CR 6241086 and 6430818) Split a mirrored pool (zpool split) Storage pool recovery Log device removal and logbias property Triple parity RAIDZ (raidz3) Changes to zpool list command New ZFS . . . → Read More: Solaris 11 Express ZFS

Oracle Solaris 11 Express Features

The most significant change to Solaris 11 is the new packaging system. And before I go any further, I want to briefly address why a new packaging system was created.

As discussed earlier, a goal of Solaris 11 was to  increase system availability. To this extent, the System 5 packaging used in Solaris 10 wasn’t . . . → Read More: Oracle Solaris 11 Express Features

Oracle Solaris 11 Express发布了

甲骨文Solaris 11 Express操作系统在Solaris 10的基础上进一步加强了各种功能,Solaris 11 Express将为关键的企业系统环境提供最佳的UNIX体验(与之相对应的是Oracle Enterprise Linux,将提供最优的Linux体验)。举例而言新系统中基于网络的包管理工具(package management tools)可以大大减少系统停机时间,并提供完整安全的系统升级方案,同时其内建的网络虚拟化及委托管理将为应用程序的整合提供从所未有的灵活性,Solaris还将持续提供业界最高级别的系统安全。Oracle公司宣称Solaris 11 Express将是Solaris平台起劲为止最激动人心的版本。 Oracle Solaris 11 Express已经在多种多样或由Oracle或由其他第三方硬件供应商的提供的Sparce架构的或基于X86的硬件上通过了全面测试。此外支持Oracle独有的Exadata Database Machine数据库服务器和Exalogic云的Solaris 11 Express也即将到来。

现在我们可以从Oracle OTN下载到Solaris 11 Express的安装介质,Oracle自家的UNIX操作系统会是什么样子呢?