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
Device Management Enhancements
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
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 networking enhancements have been added to the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
BIND 9.6.1 updates the Solaris Domain Name System Server. The relevant tools provides the following new features:
Full NSEC3 [RFC 5155] support
Automatic zone re-signing
New update policy methods, tcp-self and 6to4-self
GSS-TSIG support [RFC 3645]
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Information (DHCID RR) support [RFC 4701]
Name Server Identifier (NSID RR) support [RFC 5001]
Experimental HTTP server and statistics support
New commands.
For information about the new commands, see the dnssec-dsfromkey(1M) and dnssec-keyfromlabel(1M) man pages.
In this release, a core subset of the GLDv3 (Generic LAN Driver version 3) driver APIs are made public, and available for use by 3rd party device driver writers.
For information about how to write an Ethernet driver using the GLDv3 framework, see Chapter 19, Drivers for Network Devices, in Writing Device Drivers.
IP over Infiniband (IPoIB) connected mode introduces an improved capability of the IPoIB driver. Instead of using UD datagrams to communicate, this new feature allows Oracle Solaris nodes to establish connected mode channels to peer nodes that can also support connected mode. This feature improves latency and bandwidth, and lowers CPU utilization for IPoIB. If the peer nodes cannot support connected mode, the driver automatically reverts to the UD datagram mode, thereby assuring connectivity comparable to the original UD-only version of the driver.
This feature delivers the Open Fabrics Enterprise Edition (OFED) RDMA CM kernel KPIs. It allows kernel modules and drivers to use the OFED defined Infiniband connection management KPIs. It also delivers the kernel components required to interface OFED libraries into the InfiniBand Transport Framework (IBTF).
The InfiniBand infrastructure has been enhanced to improve the user experience and resiliency to fabric errors. Enhancements are as follows:
The initial installation of InfiniBand nodes on a fabric has been modified to allow IPoIB instances to join the appropriate partition without intervention.
The enhancement in this release detects and responds quickly to failures of the subnet manager to assure a smooth transition when errors occur.
This feature improves the performance of IPoIB in the UD datagram mode. As a result, you will notice improved throughput in the UD mode and decreased CPU utilization of the IPoIB driver in general. The enhancement, combined with doubling the size of the MTU that can be used on the InfiniBand fabric, greatly improves the usability of IPoIB in both UD and connected modes. Memory registration and speed have also been improved.