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1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Release
Network-Based Installation Support in Text Installer
Automatic Resolution of Package Dependencies in Text and GUI Installers
Live Upgrade Preserves the Dump Device Configuration
Live Upgrade Preflight Checker
System Administration Enhancements
Oracle Configuration Manager 10.3.7.1
Oracle Solaris Zones Preflight System Checker
x86: 64-bit: Fault Management for Oracle Intel Sandy Bridge-EP Platforms
x86: AMD Generic MCA Driver Support for AMD Family 15h Processors
Password and Account Creation Behavior Is Optional
SSH, SCP, and SFTP Speed Improvements
x86: SATA Support for ATA Pass Through Commands
System Performance Enhancement
SPARC: 64-bit: Increased CRC32c Algorithm Performance in the iSCSI Initiator
x86: Support for the Xen Virtual Block Device in the xdf Driver
Support for New Device in the bnxe Driver
Additional Software Enhancements
SPARC: 64-bit: Memory DR Support on Migrated Domains
This section describes the driver enhancements in this release.
The igbvf and igb drivers support the single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) specification on the Intel i350 Gigabit Network Controller.
The ixgbevf driver supports the SR-IOV specification on the Intel x540 10 Gigabit Network Controller.
The Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 release supports the sxge Ethernet driver for Oracle's Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized 40 GbE network express module (NEM).
Oracle's Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized 40 GbE NEM is a multipurpose connectivity module for Sun Blade 6000 modular system from Oracle. The NEM provides network and storage connectivity between the blades in a Sun Blade 6000 modular system chassis and external devices. The NEM supports connection to external devices through 1 GbE pass-through port and 40 GbE small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) ports. The NEM also supports Oracle's Sun ASIC Dual 10 GbE network interface card (NIC) virtualization and Oracle's Sun Blade X6270 M3 server module.
The Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 release supports the USB 3.0 specification. A new USB host controller driver, xhci, is integrated in Oracle Solaris. Mass storage devices and the USB hub that support USB 3.0 can both work in the USB 3.0 mode when they are connected with eXtensible host controller interface (xHCI) ports. All the other legacy USB devices other than the USB audio and video devices continue to work when they are connected to xHCI ports.
The data transfer speed in USB 3.0 is three to five times faster than USB 2.0. On an x86 system, the maximum speed of USB 3.0 is 150 MBps during a read/write on a USB 3.0 mass storage device. On a SPARC system, the maximum speed is 50 MBps.
Note - Data transfer speeds may vary depending on the hardware that you use.
For more information, see the xhci(7D) and usba(7D) man pages.