Why use Solaris ?
- ZFS – the last word in filesystems
- Zones – a Lightweight Virtualisation Technology
- SMF – the Service Management Facility for software lifecycle control
- IPS – a next generation network based package management system
- FMA – the Fault Management Architecture
- ASR – Auto Service Request
- COMSTAR – an enterprise SCSI Target system supporting iSCSI/iSER/FC/FCOE
- Crossbow – a next generation fully virtualised high performance network stack
- DTrace – an extensive, deep diagnosis and debugging framework
- Boot Environments – transactional operating system upgrades with rollback
- Live Upgrade – OS patched/upgraded online
- RBAC – Role Based Access Control, for granting least-privilege access to processes and users
- IPMP – IP Multipathing provides high availability networking and greater bandwidth
- Integrated L3/L4 kernel mode Load Balancer
- Integrated VRRP IP failover facility
Solaris 11 features
- Solaris fast reboot
- Improved security via immutable zones
- Improved quality of service controls for networking
- Encrypted ZFS datasets
- ZFS de-duplication and compression
- Automatic VNICs for Zones
- Easy to manage boot environments using ZFS snapshots.
- New package system – with cryptographically signed packages and multiple signature support
- Root as a role by default & authentication with user password
- IPfilter SMF integration
- Default root shell is bash
- sudo with Solaris Audit support and priv_exec removal for NOEXEC




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