Oracle Solaris

Oracle Solaris

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Oracle Solaris

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My 10 cents

10 out of 10
October 24, 2017
Solaris is the operating system we use to host our databases and applications. It serves to keep our environment secure with its built in …
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Product Details

What is Oracle Solaris?

Oracle Solaris is a Linux operating system which was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and became an Oracle product after the acquisition of Sun in 2010.

Oracle Solaris Competitors

  • Red Hat
  • IBM
  • Microsoft

Oracle Solaris Technical Details

Deployment TypesSaaS
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Reviews and Ratings

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Ratings

Likelihood to Renew (1)

5.0
50%

Usability (1)

6.0
60%

Support Rating (2)

8.0
80%

Implementation Rating (2)

6.0
60%

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January 16, 2020

Not a legacy OS yet

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Andrew Buckle
Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Aberdeenshire Council (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Solaris is used throughout the whole organization for hosting Oracle databases and for controlling the resources available to the database. It is massively scalable with CPU networking, storage resource management included. Virtualization is built-in allowing segregation of virtual environments from the physical.

Pros and Cons

  • Database hosting.
  • Storage management via ZFS.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for the hosting of Oracle databases and applications such as Oracle Financials. For an organization hosting databases, it is great. Everything and everyone can be isolated. Resources such as networking. can be managed to control bandwidth or CPUs can be allocated according to load.

Membership in Oracle User Groups

No

Support Rating

8
The support teams are well trained and responsive. Patches are rolled out regularly and are easy to deploy and backout.
October 24, 2017

My 10 cents

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Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Solaris is the operating system we use to host our databases and applications. It serves to keep our environment secure with its built in compliance features. In addition we leverage ZFS as well. We are moving our remaining Solaris 10 systems to Solaris 11. Furthermore, we use dTrace for troubleshooting.

Pros and Cons

  • Live update for patching in conjunction with the package management functions. This ability to rollback is very convenient.
  • dTrace
  • Built in compliance testing.
  • It seems that Solaris is becoming an afterthought at Oracle.
  • Oracle should be more vocal in their commitment to Solaris
  • Support Costs

Likelihood to Recommend

For running Oracle databases, Solaris can't be beat. Leveraging Zones allows for virtualization out of the box. In addition, using zones with clustering can make migrating from Solaris 10 to 11 very easy. Finally, in an enterprise environment that requires 24/7 up-time and meeting SLA's, Solaris is a viable and robust choice.

Membership in Oracle User Groups

No