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Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 What's New Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Release
System Administration Enhancements
SPARC: Support for Fast Reboot
User-Level CMT Observability Tools
Solaris Volume Manager Data Recovery
Oracle Solaris Groups Functionality
x86: Generic FMA Topology Enumerator
System Performance Enhancements
Tunable Parameter for Flash Devices in the sd.conf Configuration File
x86: Oracle Solaris I/O Interrupt Framework Enhancement for Nehalem-EX Platforms
Support for IPv6 NAT on IPFilter
x86: Jumbo Frame Support in the bnx Driver
PKCS#11 Provider for Oracle Key Manager
Support for AES Cipher Suites in the KSSL
Assigning a New Password Does Not Unlock a Locked Account
Password Construction Policy Applies to the root User by Default
Samba Upgrade to Version 3.5.8
x86: Bash Upgrade to Version 3.2
Apache C++ Standard Library Version 4 Support
Support for New Devices in the ixgbe Driver
Support for New Devices in the igb Driver
Support for LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) Devices in the e1000g Driver
Support for New Devices in the bge Driver
Support for New Device in the qlcnic Driver
Support for New Device in the mcxnex/mcxe Driver
Support for New Devices in the scu Driver
x86: Support for LSI MegaRAID Falcon SAS 2.0 HBA Device
Support for LSI SAS 2308 HBA Device
Support for LSI SAS 2208 HBA Device
Support for Public GLD Interfaces in the bge Driver
Support for MSI in the bge Driver
This section describes installation enhancements in this release.
This section summarizes the installation enhancements in the ZFS file system in this release.
You can use the text mode installation method to install a system with a ZFS flash archive.
You can use the luupgrade command of the Live Upgrade feature of Oracle Solaris to install a ZFS root flash archive.
You can use the Live Upgrade lucreate command to migrate a UFS boot environment or ZFS boot environment to a ZFS boot environment with a separate /var file system.
For more information about these new features, see the Oracle Solaris ZFS Administration Guide.
You can install Oracle Solaris on systems with more than 2 TB of memory.