1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration
SPARC: Support for ITU Construction Tools on SPARC Platforms
Oracle Solaris Upgrade Enhancement for Oracle Solaris Zone- Cluster Nodes
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle Solaris Zones
Migrating a Physical Oracle Solaris 10 System Into a Zone
Updating Packages by Using the New zoneadm attach -U Option
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Memory Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability
Virtual Disk Multipathing Enhancements
Virtual Domain Information Command and API
System Administration Enhancements
Oracle Solaris ZFS Features and Enhancements
x86: Support for the IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR
Support for Multiple Disk Sector Size
Sparse File Support in the cpio Command
x86: 64-Bit libc String Functions Improvements With SSE
Automated Rebuilding of sendmail Configuration Files
Automatic Boot Archive Recovery
x86: Intel AES-NI Optimization
New Oracle Solaris Unicode Locales
x86: HP Smart Array HBA Driver
x86: Support for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver
x86: New SATA HBA Driver, bcm_sata, for Broadcom HT1000 SATA Controllers
Support for SATA/AHCI Port Multiplier
Support for Netlogic NLP2020 PHY in the nxge Driver
BIND 9.6.1 for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Open Fabrics User Verbs Primary Kernel Components
InfiniBand Infrastructure Enhancements
Support for the setxkbmap Command
ixgbe Driver to Integrate Intel Shared Code Version 3.1.9
Broadcom Support to bge Networking Driver
x86: Fully Buffered DIMM Idle Power Enhancement
Fault Management Architecture Enhancements
FMA Support for AMD's Istanbul Based Systems
Oracle Solaris FMA Enhancement
Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0ps9
Enhancements to the mdb Command to Improve the Debugging Capability of kmem and libumem
The following device management features have been added to the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) accelerates the iSCSI protocol by mapping the data transfer phases to Remote DMA (RDMA) operations. As a result, an iSER initiator can read and write data from an iSER target at high data rates with relatively low CPU utilization compared to iSCSI using TCP/IP.
For more information, see the iser(7D) man page.
In this release, the hotplug command is available to manage hot-pluggable connections on PCI EXPRESS (PCIe) and PCI SHPC (Standard Hot Plug Controller) devices. This feature is not supported on other bus types, such as USB and SCSI buses.
You can still use the cfgadm command to manage hot-pluggable USB and SCSI devices as in previous releases. The benefit of using the hotplug command in this release is that in addition to being able to enable and disable operations, the hotplug command provides offline and online capabilities for your supported PCI devices.
For more information, see System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems.
AAC RAID power management is a new feature of the AAC driver that supports intelligent power management provided by Adaptec Hardware RAID cards. This feature reduces the power consumption of RAID disks.
For more information about the Adaptec Hardware RAID cards, see http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/.