While waiting for the support of Symantec applications with the new Solaris 11, I'm bringing an overview of the new operating system.
Oracle Solaris 11 Express, from here you can download, you have the possibility to download a pendirve, as well as the possibility of using a live cd, two features that this new version incorporates the operating system for SPARC-solaris, here are some of the advantages we can get:
A faster start, the people of Sun Oracle came working hard in the matter, wanted to run a startup type as the x86 and x86 machines, this towards standardizing them.
IPS to upgrade, installation, removal of packages is similar to opensolaris faster than previous versions and this is one of the operating system's disadvantage, as in previous versions, the update manager was rarely used because it is not so friendly.
SMF (Service Managment Facility) SNMPy incliyo of traps for smf integration with IPS, manerajador such services is migrating slowly all native services to this new technology providing greater functionality.
Virtualization enables hardware virtualization move or migrate virtualized.
But ZFS with zones ZBE environment, clones, you can use your environment ZFS on the new area.
Zonestat to monitor the area. This is something that was said just a monitor time zone that is complemented by the java console.
RBAC to manage the areas, the user can migrate, create and delete the area.
CIFS with high conversion capability with Microsoft Active Directory.
NWAM wireless network interfaces.
Support for infiniband
Tomas Carpio.
