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Solaris

Solaris. Group F Kevin Franklin Jay Lee Greg Nesslerodt Travis Thomas Chris Woodley. Overview. Environment State of the Art Commercial Success Technical success Pro’s Con’s. Environment. UNIX SPARC (32- and 64-bit) Intel Architecture (32-bit). State of the Art.

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Solaris

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  1. Solaris Group F Kevin Franklin Jay Lee Greg Nesslerodt Travis Thomas Chris Woodley

  2. Overview • Environment • State of the Art • Commercial Success • Technical success • Pro’s • Con’s

  3. Environment • UNIX • SPARC (32- and 64-bit) • Intel Architecture (32-bit)

  4. State of the Art • Advanced the state of the art by: • Manageability • Commercial Presence • Also Java-based applications

  5. Commercial Success • Called “the #1 UNIX operating environment” • Good reviews • InfoWorld • D.H. Brown

  6. Commercial Success (cont’d) • Satisfied customers: • ATG • BEA Systems, Inc. • Cadence Design Systems, Inc. • Computer Associates International, Inc. • Data Connection Ltd. • Gemstone Systems, Inc. • Hewlett-Packard, Inc. • Industri-Matematik • Informix • J.Crew • Lexmark International • Lotus Development Corporation • Magma Design Automation • Mentor Graphics Corp. • Metrowerks • Novell • Oracle • Platform Computing • RealNetworks, Inc. • Resonate • RSi Solutions Ltd. • SAS Institute • SBE.com • Sybase • ThinAirApps • TimesTen • VERITAS

  7. Commercial Success (cont’d) • The UNIX versus NT Organization lists 103 prominent companies web servers and their OSes • Many use Solaris including: AOL, Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, CBS, CNN, The Coca-cola company, FBI, Geico, Lockheed-Martin, McDonalds, MCI, MIT, Netscape, NSA, Oracle, Sony, Sprint, Time-Warner,Verisign

  8. Commercial Success – InfoWorld Review Sun Microsystems Solaris • Current release: Solaris 8 • Platform: Sun Sparc and Intel PC workstations and servers • Standard: Unix 98 • Application score: 10 out of 10 • “…Sun's ownership of Java and its involvement in iPlanet, make Sun the safest choice in enterprise Unix systems.”

  9. Commercial Success – InfoWorld Review (cont’d)

  10. Commercial Success – D.H. Brown • D.H. Brown Associates, 2001 UNIX Function Review • Rated Solaris the best overall against UnixWare 7.1.1, AIX 4.3.3, Tru64 UNIX 5.1, and HP-UX 11i • Rated Solaris first in RAS (Reliability, Availability/Scalability, and Serviceability) and Directory and Security Services • Gives Solaris a strong standing in Internet and Web-Application Services

  11. Technical success – Availability • allows installation of updates while applications continue to run • when installation is complete, a simple reboot enables the new version to take control • This reduces the amount of downtime • Backward compatible

  12. Technical success – Scalability • Designed for multiprocessing and 64-bit computing • the Solaris platform supports: • One million simultaneous processes on a single system • Up to 128 CPUs on a single system • More than four billion network connections • 32- and 64-bit applications • Two-, four-, and eight-node clusters • IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses • Up to 512 CPUs in a clustered environment

  13. Technical success – Manageability • Solaris Web Start Wizards[tm] • Solaris JumpStart[tm] • Solaris Management Console • Sun Cluster 3.0 • Sun Management Center • Solaris Volume Manager (formerly known as Solstice DiskSuite[tm] software)

  14. Technical success – Security • IPSec for creating virtual private networks (VPNs) • Smart card authentication compatible with the open card framework (OCF) 1.1 specification • “Role-based access control for distributing superuser authorizations” • Trusted Solaris • extension of Solaris • more security measures

  15. Technical success – Security: Trusted Solaris • Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) • allows information to be processed at multiple sensitivity levels • Labels: Sensitivity and Clearances • Sensitivity labels are assigned to system objects accessed by users • Clearances set an upper and lower sensitivity boundary where a user can work. • Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) • used to restrict access to information based on a user's identity or group membership.

  16. Advantages • the Sparc and Intel versions are the same OS • Solaris has the broadest application support of any commercial Unix-based OS. • Java compatibility • Availability • Manageability • Security • Presence in commercial environment • Free Binary License • Backwards compatibility

  17. Disadvantages • Sparc processors don't scale as efficiently as rivals’ • large-scale Sun systems are notoriously expensive • Solaris ships with an anemic standard software bundle with costly options • Some advantages lost when majority of network is not Sun-based • E.g., Sun Management Center

  18. 7 FILE TYPES • ‘-’ Ordinary File • ‘d’ Directory File • ‘b’ Block Device File • ‘c’ Character Device File • ‘l’ Symbolic Link File • ‘s’ Socket • ‘p’ Pipe File

  19. SOLARIS FILE SYSTEM • Boot Block • Super Boot Block • Data Block • I-node List

  20. Thread Creation and Control • Threads created from process • Begin from main-like sub-routine • ID from creator • Shared verse local data

  21. Thread Relationships

  22. Thread Execution • States of user-level threads: • Sleeping • Stopped • Runnable • Active

  23. Thread Execution • Events causing thread to exit active state: • Suspension • Preemption • Yielding • Synchronization

  24. Synchronization • Uses four primitives to accomplish synchronization • Mutual exclusion locks • Semaphores • Multiple readers, single writer locks • Condition variables

  25. Mutual Exclusion Locks • mutex_enter() – obtains lock • mutex_exit() – releases lock • mutex_tryenter() – busy wait for blocked

  26. Semaphores • sema_p() - decrements • sema_v() - increments • sema_tryp() –decrements with out blocking

  27. Readers/writer Lock • rw_enter() – obtains lock • rw_exit() – releases lock • rw_tryenter() – obtains lock using busy-wait • rw_downgrade() – converts writer to reader • rw_upgrade() – converts reader to writer

  28. Condition Variables • cv_wait() – blocks • cv_signal() – removes block • cv_broadcast() – removes all blocks

  29. Processes: Memory • Has own virtual memory space • Require address translation map and memory management unit to access real memory • MMU must update translation maps when context switch occurs • Must contain a u area and kernel stack

  30. Process Context • Contains information about the process • Hardware context: • program counter, process status word, memory management registers, floating point unit registers • User Address Space • Program text and data, user stack • Control Information • U area, proc structures, kernel stack, address translation maps

  31. Process Context Continued • Credentials • User and group Ids (real and effective) • Environmental variables • The u area must contain: • Process control block, pointer to the proc structure, info about system calls, signal handlers, memory management info, table of open files, pointers to current directory, CPU usage statistics,

  32. Threads • Relatively independent set of instructions • Control point within process • Advantages: • Context switches are cheaper • Application is able to continue to run if resources aren’t available to all threads

  33. Kernel Threads • Entity scheduled by the kernel • Uses kernel text and data, but unique kernel stack

  34. Lightweight Processes • Swappable portion of a thread • Performs the processing for the application • 12 states: • Preempt, wakeup, stop, blocking, system, call, dispatch, runnable, running, active, stopped, continue

  35. User Threads • Created by lightweight processes • Used to control time and locking issues • Handles segmentation violations

  36. Zombie Processes • A process that has been killed by a parent but has not been removed from the system • Not accessible by scheduler • Can be restored but only by programmer, not system.

  37. Sources • http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ • http://www.sun.com/trustedsolaris/ • “Six flavors run the gamut: The good, the bad, and the ugly”, By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center , 1/12/01; http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/01/15/010115tcunix.xml • “Microsoft Admits NT Trails Solaris”(07/28/98, 12:40 p.m. ET) By Barbara Darrow and Stuart Glascock -http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980728S0004 • http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/webservers.html

  38. Sources • Sun tops charts with security system By Maggie Biggs, For InfoWorld Test Center, 4/5/01; http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/04/09/010409tctsolaris.xml • Fighting the threat within, Maggie Biggs, Federal Computer Week, 3/26/01; http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0326/tec-solaris-03-26-01.asp

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