Solaris Operating System

1. Solaris Operating System Members: Honey delica Katiabunyi 7D

2. History of the Operating System Solaris is a UNIX-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace and ZFS.Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms.

3. History of the Operating System Solaris is certified against the Single Unix Specification. Although it was historically developed as proprietary software, it is supported on systems manufactured by all major server vendors, and the majority of its codebase is now open source software via the OpenSolaris project.

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7. Sun Hardware Timeline 1982 February Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Andreas Bechtolsheim, and VinodKhosla found Sun Microsystems. "SUN" originally stood for Stanford University Network. [47] [110.149,152] [217.163] May Sun Microsystems begins shipping the Sun 1 workstation computer. [110.152] 1984 February 14 Scott McNealy is appointed president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems. [110.153] [218.D2] April Silicon Graphics begins shipping its first 3-D graphics workstations. [28] June Motorola introduces the 16 MHz 68020 processor, a 32-bit version of the 68000, in CMOS, with on-board cache. [1] [140] (1986 [20]) (month unknown) MIPS Computer Systems is founded, and begins developing its RISC architecture. [29] Sun Microsystems co-founder VinodKhosla resigns. [110.153] Silicon Graphics introduces its first workstation, IRIS 1400. [221.61]  

8. Sun’s Hardware Sun 1's These are the large black desktop boxes with 17" monitors. Used the original Stanford-designed video board. Uses a parallel microswitch keyboard and parallel mouse. 1/100 Used design similar to original SUN (Stanford University Network) CPU, version 1.5 CPU could take larger RAMS. Pre-dates Sun's 4.2 port (ran Unisoft V7) (68010 CPU instead of SUN's 68000) 10Mhz. 1/100u "Brain transplant" for 100 series. Replaces CPU and memory card with first-generation Sun2 CPU and memory boards so original customers could run SunOS V1. (Still has parallel kb/mouse intf so old kbds would work.) 1/170 Rack-mounted server. Slightly different chassis design than 2/170's

9. Sun’s Hardware Sun 2's 2/120 Multibus-based 68010 10Mhz. First machines that had desk-side chassis Serial Microswitch keyboard, Mouse Systems Optical mouse. 8Mb memory max. Cards are CPU, 1 or 4 meg memory board, ethernet board, SCSI board, 640 * 480 color board, monochrome video board, SMD controller, tape controller, 16 port serial mux (ALM-1) Two variants of video board, one generated TTL-level video, on ECL. Later video boards ("2prime") could generate either levels. Early 19" mono monitors (philips or moniterm) could be switched as well. 2/170 VME Sun2 style CPU 2 slot chassis. Optional SCSI board (model name is SCSI-2; 2'nd SCSI design.. first was for 2/1xx's) sat on mem expansion board in 2nd slot. CPU board had 1,2,or 4 megs mem, 10Mhz 68010 CPU, ethernet, two serial ports. Memory expansion boards are 1,2 or 4 megs as well. The (type-2) keyboard and mouse attached via an adapter that accepted 2 modular plugs and attached to the DB15 port. 2/160 First machine to use 12 slot desk-side VME chassis. Many have CPU upgrades to 3/160's. Had 4 fan cooling tray instead of 6 in later machines, thus cooling problems with lots of cards. Also only had 4 P2 memory connectors bussed instead of 6. SunOS 4.0.3 was the last release with Sun2 support. 2/1xx's with a monochrome display can only have 7megs max, since the frame buffer appears in the 8th meg

10. Sun’s Hardware Sun 3's 3/160 First 68020 based Sun machine. Uses "Carrera" CPU, which is used in lots of other Sun3 variants. 4Mb on-board memory. Sun's mem expansion goes on 4 Meg memory expansion boards; third parties had up to 32 megs on one card. SCSI was optional. One variant of the memory card held the 6u VME SCSI board, other version sat in slot7 of the backplane and ran the SCSI out the back of the backplane to the internal disc/tape. CPU has 2 serial, ethernet, kbd ports.

11. Features of Solaris OS IPS make installation/maintain/update very easy. ZFS snapshot/rollback your config/data/tables, add/remove your storage space. Zones isolate your apps. clone your apps. SMF  make your apps very reliable. DTrace observe every thing, from the app to the kernel.

12. Features of Solaris 10 OS The highly versatile Solaris 10 operating system offers a great balance of new and unique features that support a wide variety of Sun's new hardware. Based on the Solaris 10 Update 3 operating system release, this course guides you through an in-depth exploration of the robust functionality found in Sun's flagship operating system. You will be instructed in how to set up, configure, and administer some of the most distinctive Solaris features, including Solaris Zones, ZFS, DTrace, Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Trusted Extensions, and operating system installation.

13. Advantages of Solaris OS 1. Performance : Mainly because it is optimised to work with the SPARC, it gives better perfromance than the other alternatives avaliable. You would find many of the Sun's server solutions running with the Solaris OS such as Netra series.2. POSIX compliant environment: Solaris can be considered to be compliant with the POSIX environment which means a standard programming interface for developers.

14. Disadvantages of Solaris OS 1. Uncompatible : It is not recommended to run Solaris on other architectures such as Intel, AMD. It is possible to install Solaris on Intel however, the performance would degrade considerably since Solaris cannot make use of Intel that efficiently.2. Lack of good GUI : Solaris does have GUI support - Common Desktop Environment, OpenWindows etc. but they are far way from the other GUI environments seen in Windows or Mac.3. Costlier : With other cheaper alternatvies such as Linux available, it proves to be costlier to acquire a license of Solaris. Since it is intended to be used on SPARC so the end user often ends up in buying the hardware as well.

15. How does Solaris OS compare to other OS?

16. OpenSolarisWhy use OpenSolaris if I already have Linux? OpenSolaris has a very welcoming community where novice and beginners can easily find help. Community members are very co-operative and encouraging. As engineers, our work is to __MAKE__ technology more "accessible" and "easy to use" and not look for technologies which __ARE__ "accessible" and "easy to use". OpenSolaris has made a big switch from being a server OS to Desktop OS and has very cool technologies built into it, but it might not be as easy to use as other OSes like Linux or Windows. And thus its an opportunity for the developers to work towards __MAKING__ these cool stuff of OpenSolaris more "accessible" and "easy to use" for general public. Linux as a Desktop OS is quite mature and its difficult for a beginner to make a drastic difference in the community. OpenSolaris on the other hand is on its way to become a OS which would work perfectly out-of-the-box! So any help in this would be appreciated by the community.

17. Solaris versus Red HatAdvantages of Solaris. Solairs is free. Both Regular Solaris and OpenSolaris Solaris with support is often less expensive than Red Hat with support on the same hardware. Linux sometimes is faster than Solaris when running on the platform for which it was originally designed: A single 32-bit x86 CPU PC. When you get to multiple CPUs, multiple cores, etc. Solaris will usually be better. Even on the original Linux target platform, Solaris usually wins the speed battle. Solaris 10 is secure and certified as secure. If you have a problem with a part of Linux other than the kernel, you may end up at the short end of the "we don't support that particular add-on, but we're sending a request out to the community and we hope that the grad student who developed it three years ago will see it and respond" stick from your Linux vendor. With Solaris you contact Sun and we fix it.

18. Solaris versus Red Hat ZFS is definitely something database people want. Faster and more reliable storage makes for better databases. Dtrace is something database people want. If their production system is underperforming, being able to diagnose what's going on without having to shut it down is a good thing. Containers are of interest to database people. Instead of needing to buy separate systems for their production, test, and development database environments they can put them in separate containers on one system. Solaris is and has been tested in the most rigorous of enterprise environments.