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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By : Philip P. Brown
Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By: Philip P. Brown

Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. "Oracle Solaris 11: First Look" covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.  
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
IPS Package Reference
New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
Index

ZFS – your future, today


Those people who are cautious about migrating to Solaris 11 may be equally as cautious about upgrading (or even using) the ZFS version already available to them on their production systems, and so might be unaware of the pending goodies that await them.

Having been in this category myself for sometime, I know how the routine goes—glance over the new stuff once to know what other people are talking about, but then ignore it. For this reason, even though some of the functionality mentioned in this chapter is not strictly new to Solaris 11, it will be covered here.

If some of the features here intrigue current Solaris 10 users, it is nice to know that most of them are available in Solaris 10 by fully patching it to MU10. The amount of hassle required to get there, however is almost equivalent to doing a full OS upgrade, so you may want to just plan a full upgrade anyway.

It is also important to realize that just applying patches does not in itself always give you new ZFS...