What's New - Oracle Solaris 11

Objective:

Key features in Oracle Solaris 11.

1. Virtualize everything.

- Extremely fast with no overhead over performance, zones can be used as an boundary for Solaris and other applications.

- Perfect OS for clouds environments, Virtualize all the data center topology into single oracle system with built-in flow control, you control the usage of the network(Network virtulization).

2. Benefit from integration inside and out.

- Optimized for oracle hardware and software.

- Foundation for public, private clouds environments.

- ZFS: heart of OS. 

- Technologies like IPS, live upgrade, boot environment, SMF, Zones are perfectly integrated.

3. Designed for rapid deployment.

- Automated installer is a new tool to deploy rapidly Solaris into bare-metal systems or zones or clouds in Data    Center with automatic installers in Solaris 11.

- IPS is the new packaging system that allows fast dependable and system updates.

- ZFS cloning, trapshooting, zoning zones can be extremely and rapidly created and deployed.

4. Enjoy your weekend with planned downtime.

Allows dramatic reduction of downtime with below features:

- IPS.

- ZFS root.

- Boot environments.

- Built-in safety with fall back options.

- Zones mobility.

- Fast reboots.

- SMF.

5. Extreme availability

- Solaris 11 is available across single system or multi-systems.

- key tech like FMA + SMF = predictive self healing of the system, medicating hardware and software before any chance of effecting application up-time.

- For multi-site disaster recovery, "Oracle Solaris cluster" protects both physical and virtual instances.

6. Oracle Solaris 11 technologies:

- Cryptographic framework.

- ZFS encryption.

- Privileges RBAC.

- Root as a Role.

- Zones.

- Read only zones root.

- Ipfilter.

- IPsec.

- Kerberos.

- Trusted extensions.

- Auditing key management.

- Trusted platforms module.

- Oracle software security assurance.

7. Manage OS:

- Manage with software updates with IPS(Image Packaging System).

- Manage with software dependencies with SMF.

- Manage with hardware dependencies with FMA.

- Manage your data easily with ZFS.

- Manage you entire OS with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Hope you had knows some, few features in Oracle Solaris 11, lot can be found from http://docs.oracle.com