Oracle Solaris: Key Features

Key Features

• Oracle Solaris Containers—Virtualization functionality included in Oracle Solaris that enables customers to create multiple application environments within a single instance of the OS; through the use of software-defined boundaries, customers can achieve greater efficiency of IT resources by consolidating systems and securely isolating applications and services
• Oracle Solaris DTrace—Allows you to use the dynamic instrumentation and tracing capabilities in Oracle Solaris to see what's really going on in the system; it is designed to be safely used on production systems—without modifying applications
• Oracle Solaris Predictive Self Healing—Allows the server to accurately predict component failures and mitigate many potentially serious problems before they actually occur; if an application or service fails, the built-in restart mechanism automatically restarts the application or service
• Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions—This advanced security feature implements labels to protect your data and applications based on their sensitivity level, not just on who owns or runs them
• Oracle Solaris ZFS—An advanced file system that simplifies administrative tasks, protects data from corruption, and scales from the desktop to the data center

Additional Features

• Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade—Allows Oracle Solaris to continue to run while performing upgrades or maintenance
• Interoperability—Seamless interoperability between Oracle Solaris and Linux-based systems.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)—Delegate administration function to the users who need them
• Oracle Solaris Service Manager—A key functionality of Predictive Self Healing, Service Manager ensures your applications will keep running even through hardware and software faults
• Oracle Solaris Fault Manager—A key functionality of Predictive Self Healing, Fault Manager continually monitors data relating to hardware and software errors and automatically diagnoses the underlying problem and responds by offlining faulty components