C H A P T E R 4 - Solaris Operating Systems for Sun Fire High-End Systems

C H A P T E R 4

Solaris Operating Systems for Sun Fire High-End Systems

A Sun Fire high-end system can be divided into dynamic system domains. These domains are based on system board slots that are assigned to the domains. Each domain is electrically isolated into hardware partitions, which ensures that any failure in one domain does not affect the other domains in the system.

The Sun Fire high-end systems run the Solaris 8, 9, or 10 Operating Systems on their domains and Solaris 8 or 9 Operating Systems on the system controllers.The Solaris Operating System offers the best of UNIX-class reliability, availability, and serviceability at a fraction of the cost of mainframe operating systems.

The Solaris Operating System provides:

Stability, high performance, capacity, and precision

32- and 64-bit operating environments

Easy-to-use tools

High quality and reliability

Integrated graphics with industry-standard API support

Over 12,000 leading technical and business applications