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ORACLE SOLARIS 10
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
• Investment Protection. The Binary

Compatibility Guarantee, the ability to
consolidate Oracle Solaris 8, Oracle
Solaris 9 and Oracle Solaris 10
Containers on one Oracle Solaris10
system or Guest Domain, and the long
support life all factor into the
comprehensive Investment Protection
story for Oracle Solaris 10.
• Confidence. Oracle Solaris 10 is

integrated and tested with Oracle
applications, middleware. Optimized
Solutions minimize the effort to ensure
successful deployments.
• End to end Data Integrity – Oracle

Solaris ZFS provides file system end to
end data protection as well as facilities
to self correct data. It also offers a
simplified management model that does
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not require a 3 party volume manager.
ZFS offers the scalability to grow to the
largest data storage requirements.
• Operational Safety Net. ZFS snapshots

create a low overhead safety net for
reducing the risk when making any
system software changes.
• Decrease Downtime. Unplanned

downtime is minimized with through
Oracle Solaris Predictive Self Healing.
Planned downtime can be reduced
through the ability to apply patches to a
copy of the current boot environment
prior to the scheduled maintenance
window.

Oracle Solaris 10 has been the strategic platform for today’s demanding
enterprise applications since 2005, delivering proven results on everything from
mission- critical enterprise databases to high-performance Web farms, and
from the latest generation of SPARC systems and x86 systems. For customers
facing challenging business and technical requirements—such as lowering
costs, simplifying system administration, and maintaining high service levels—
Oracle Solaris 10 is the ideal cross-platform choice. Oracle Solaris is
integrated and tested with Oracle applications, middleware, and databases to
ensure successful deployments.
Meeting the IT Challenge
Enterprises are under tremendous pressure to show stronger returns on their investment in IT,
rolling out new business services faster, increasing processing and storage capacity while
reducing space and power usage, and complying with new regulations. With Oracle Solaris,
innovative built-in features deliver breakthrough virtualization and utilization, high
availability, advanced security, and industry-leading performance.

Designed for Virtualization
Oracle Solaris 10 offers the industry's most cost effective and integrated virtualization solution
encompassing a range of technologies as well as management and support offerings without
additional costs. The virtualization technologies include both Oracle VM Server and Oracle
Solaris Containers. Oracle VM Server follows the industry model of placing independent
guest environments on a hypervisor architecture that supports Live Migration of guests
between systems. Oracle Solaris Containers provide a different approach by providing
independent and isolated virtual environments within a single OS instance.
Virtualization management is delivered through Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. See
the Management section below for more information.

Investment Protection
Oracle Solaris guarantees binary compatibility from release to release and its architecture
neutral programming interfaces ensure source code compatibility between SPARC and x86
systems. Oracle Solaris Containers take compatibility one step further. To assist in rehosting
legacy applications, Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers can host Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle
Solaris 9 applications in Oracle Solaris Containers on Oracle Solaris 10. The latter approach
provides both application compatibility and environmental compatibility to ensure rehosting
success. Taken together, running applications in Oracle Solaris Containers and as Oracle VM
Server guests is the most effective way to guarantee application compatibility, to run older
applications on the newest hardware, and to move applications between systems. Add in
Oracle Solaris 11 and it is possible to consolidate 4 generations of Oracle Solaris on a single
hardware platform: