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Solaris 11.2
Updated: December 2014
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What's New in Oracle
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Solaris 11.2
December 2014
Identifies important changes in this release.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 - Engineered for Cloud
Key Features in Oracle Solaris 11.2
Centralized Cloud Management With OpenStack
Independent and Isolated Environments With Kernel Zones
Application Provisioning With Unified Archives
Software-Defined Networking - Elastic Virtual Switch
Software-Defined Networking - Application-Driven Flows
Comprehensive Compliance Checking and Reporting
Immutable Global Zones
IT Automation With Puppet
Installation and Software Management Features
Firmware Updates With IPS
Secure End-to-End Provisioning
Interactive Automated Installer Manifest Creation and Management
Minimal Server Package Group
Oracle Database Prerequisites Package
Repository Mirroring
Recursive Package Operations in Oracle Solaris Zones
Baseline Installations With IPS
Additional Automated Installer Enhancements for Advanced Configuration
Bootable USB Media for SPARC
Data Management Features
Progress Reporting With ZFS Send Streams
ZFS Performance Enhancements
Virtualization Features
Live Zone Reconfiguration
Zone Template Properties
Automated Zone Renaming
CMT-Aware Oracle Solaris Zones and Resource Pool Configuration
Multiple Boot Environments for Oracle Solaris 10 Zones
Networking Features
Virtual Extensible Local Area Network
Layer 3 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Extension
Precision Time Protocol
Probe-Based Failure Detection in Datalink Multipathing
Network Traffic Monitoring Utilities
Reflective Relay
InfiniBand Enhancements
EoIB Administration With the dladm Command
InfiniBand Observability
User and Process Information in the netstat Command
System Management Features
Remote Administration Daemon
SMF Configuration Stencils, Log Viewing, and Synchronous Operations
Security Features
Verified Boot
IKEv2 Support for Oracle Solaris 11
RBAC Time-Based and Location-Based Access
Auditing of User and Rights Management
Kerberos for Long-Running Processes
Platform Enhancements
Multi-CPU Binding System Call
FMA Network Diagnostics
Faster Upload Times for Kernel Crash Dumps
Memory Access Locality Characterization and Analysis With the numatop Command
Oracle Hardware Management Pack
Oracle VTS 7.0 Patch Set 18.1
Next-Generation Hardware Drivers
Developer Tools Enhancements
DTrace llquantize Aggregating Action
DTrace Scalability Enhancements
Oracle Solaris Preflight Applications Checker
Oracle Solaris Studio
Software Features
Java 8
Mozilla Collaboration Suite (Firefox, Thunderbird and Lightning)
National Language Support Administration
Third Party Licenses
New IPS Packages
Key Resources