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Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What's New |
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
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
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 Oracle VM Server for SPARC features have been enhanced in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
This feature adds support in the Oracle Solaris OS for system administrators to dynamically add and delete memory from logical domains.
For more information, see the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Administration Guide.
Virtual disk multipathing enables you to configure a virtual disk on a guest domain to access its back–end storage by more than one path. The paths lead through different service domains that provide access to the same back–end storage, such as a disk LUN. This feature enables a virtual disk in a guest domain to remain accessible even if one of the service domains goes down.
For more information about this feature, see the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Administration Guide and the ldm(1M) man page in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Reference Manual.
The Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 software and the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS introduce the Static Direct I/O feature. This feature enables you to assign an individual PCIe endpoint device to a guest domain, which provides higher granularity when you assign PCIe devices to guest domains.
For more information about this feature, see the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Administration Guide and the ldm(1M) man page in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Reference Manual.
The virtinfo command enables you to gather information about a running virtual domain. You can also use the Virtual Domain Information API to create programs to gather information related to virtual domains.
The following list shows some of the information that you can gather about a virtual domain by using the virtinfo command or the API:
Domain type (implementation, control, guest, I/O, service, root)
Domain name determined by the Virtual Domain Manager
Universally unique ID (UUID) of the domain
Network node name of the domain's control domain
Chassis serial number on which the domain is running
For more information, see the virtinfo(1M), libv12n(3LIB), and v12n(3EXT) man pages in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 Reference Manual.
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