Oracle Solaris 11 Will Run With Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

Oracle Corp. is showcased Solaris 11 at Oracle OpenWorld this week, ahead of its planned release in November of this year.

Solaris is an enterprise operating system providing availability, security and performance on both SPARC and x86 systems, built for clouds, enabling secure and fast deployment of services in a large-scale cloud environment. It is optimized for both Oracle and 3rd party applications.

Over 600 customers from various industries, including financial services, communications and public sector, have deployed early versions of Solaris 11 in production.

Solaris 11 is also a core component
of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance:

• Nearly 3,000 enterprises, including 1/4 of the Fortune 100, and Oracle IT and Oracle Cloud Services, trust Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to support their business-critical applications.
• Solaris ZFS provides data protection from data corruption and malicious attacks on customers’ data storage systems.
• The parallel capabilities of Solaris 11 allow the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance to process I/O requests in parallel, increasing storage efficiency and performance to higher levels than other NAS suppliers.

Oracle featured Solaris 11 at more than 50 combined Oracle OpenWorld conference sessions, BOFs and Hands-On Labs, as well as in the Exhibition Hall.

The Solaris 11 Early Adopter Release, a feature-complete preview of Solaris 11 is now available to Gold Level Oracle Partner Network (OPN) members and above on the Oracle Solaris Knowledge Zone.

• Developers are using this release to begin final qualification of their applications on the upcoming Solaris 11.
• OPN members also found new Solaris 11 tools and resources in the Solaris Knowledge Zone.

Solaris Remote Lab, also part of the OracleExastack Labs program, provides qualifying OPN members access to SPARC and x86 Solaris systems, enabling partners to test and verify their applications on the latest release of Solaris.

Available through the Exastack Ready program, qualifying partners with applications that support the latest major release of Solaris may achieve Solaris Ready status and access branding and promotional benefits, including logo, solution brief and visibility in various marketing activities. Qualifying OPN ISV members at Gold level and above are eligible for Solaris development and demo licenses as well as updates and patches through the new Solaris Development Initiative for development, integration, testing and validation of commercially available software applications.

New Solaris 11 Training is also now available to help customers and partners upgrade from Solaris 10 or earlier versions.

Solaris 11 is the operating system for Oracle’s recently announced SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 engineered system and Oracle’s SPARC T4 server line. It also powers the Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8 systems, as well as Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

Key Features of Solaris 11 include:

• Fully virtualized operating system, providing secure, flexible, built-in virtualization services that allow customers to maximize system, network and data resources in their datacenters with zero virtualization overhead.
• Built-in data services that create a limitless environment for storing, managing and protecting data.
• New software provisioning and maintenance infrastructure, designed for cloud and large enterprise deployments to rapidly deploy new datacenter software images across thousands of machines.
• End-to-end security to protect data assets, harden OS startup and secure system access with default system security features.
• Maximum performance and scale, able to support future hardware that will scale to tens of thousands of hardware threads, hundreds of terabytes of system memory and hundreds of gigabits per second of I/O.
• Increased Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and Java-based application performance, availability, security and manageability through jointly engineered improvements such as optimized memory management, I/O enhancements, integrated resource management and crypto off-load.

"Oracle Solaris 11 was engineered to solve the most challenging issues customers face when deploying and managing a modern data center infrastructure. Oracle has accelerated development of Oracle Solaris technologies and with Oracle Solaris 11, we will introduce our most innovative product release to date with features that will help customers move toward agile, efficient and secure business clouds," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. "We are excited to preview Oracle Solaris 11 at Oracle OpenWorld and demonstrate how Oracle Solaris 11 solves customer problems that no other operating system has been able to address."