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
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 installation features have been added to the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration is new in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release. A new Auto Registration screen has been added to the interactive installer to facilitate registering your system using your Oracle support credentials. Oracle Solaris JumpStart installations and network installations require a new auto_reg keyword in the sysidcfg file to control settings during the installation. For details, see auto_reg Keyword in Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations.
With Auto Registration, during the initial reboot, after you install or upgrade your system, configuration data about your system is automatically communicated through the existing service tag technology to the Oracle Product Registration System. The service tag data about your system is used, for example, to help Oracle enhance customer support and services. You can learn about service tags at http://wikis.sun.com/display/ServiceTag/Sun+Service+Tag+FAQ.
By registering with your support credentials using one of the registration options, you have a straightforward way to inventory your systems and the major software components on those systems. For instructions about tracking your registered products, see https://inventory.sun.com/inventory. See also, http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunInventory/Sun+Inventory.
You can elect to have your configuration data sent to the Oracle Product Registration System anonymously. An anonymous registration means that the configuration data sent to Oracle has no link to the name of a customer. You also have the option to disable Auto Registration.
For further information, see Oracle Solaris Auto Registration in Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade.
In this release, the itu utility has been modified to support booting a SPARC based system with the install-time updates (ITU) process. Third-party vendors can now deliver driver updates on diskette, CD or DVD, and USB storage. In addition, new tools that enable you to modify the Oracle Solaris installation media with new packages and patches have been introduced. These tools can be used to deliver software updates for hardware platforms and to produce customized installation media.
For more information, see the following man pages:
See also, How to Boot a System With a Newly Created ITU in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
This feature enables you to upgrade the Oracle zone– cluster node, which is a cluster brand zone, via DVD or JumpStart. Prior to this feature, only Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade could be used for this purpose.