Oracle Solaris Reviews & Insights

We virtualize Oracle Solaris with LDoms and Zones on SPARC Servers. To develop our tools, build open source software, test apps, and reproduce customers' environments. We test new Solaris versions and learn new features.

Oracle Solaris tools are stable for the long term. Your apps will just work for years. Not as many changes of tools and API as Linux for example. You can trust Solaris for stability, performance, and security. It is the right choice for important business.

Oracle Solaris is our core operating system for Oracle Database and Java applications. It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. The backup capabilities are quite good. We use Oracle Solaris to develop and support our VDCF (Virtual Datacenter Cloud Framework) management software. The stability of the solution is good.

Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers.
Supports a wide range of hardware.
The Stability of the solution is great.
The documentation does not support some solutions, and there are no other options.
Most of the product is still command-line, despite the fact that they've got a graphical user interface in some areas. For some reason, core administration is still done via command-line.

Solaris is used throughout the whole organization for hosting Oracle databases and for controlling the resources available to the database. It is massively scalable with CPU networking, storage resource management included. Virtualization is built-in allowing segregation of virtual environments from the physical.

It is well suited for the hosting of Oracle databases and applications such as Oracle Financials. For an organization hosting databases, it is great. Everything and everyone can be isolated. Resources such as networking. can be managed to control bandwidth or CPUs can be allocated according to load.

Solaris is the operating system we use to host our databases and applications. It serves to keep our environment secure with its built in compliance features. In addition we leverage ZFS as well. We are moving our remaining Solaris 10 systems to Solaris 11. Furthermore, we use dTrace for troubleshooting.

For running Oracle databases, Solaris can't be beat. Leveraging Zones allows for virtualization out of the box. In addition, using zones with clustering can make migrating from Solaris 10 to 11 very easy. Finally, in an enterprise environment that requires 24/7 up-time and meeting SLA's, Solaris is a viable and robust choice.