Solaris 10 10/09 has several new features, particularly involving ZFS and patching. For details, see:

• New Patching Features in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release
• New ZFS Features in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release

For a complete list of all the new features in Solaris 10 10/09, see the Solaris 10 10/09 What's New Collection.

For a list of the features that are no longer supported in Solaris 10 10/09, see the Solaris Operating System End-of-Software Support Statements.

• Solaris 10 10/09 Release
  • What's New — A document that describes all of the new features in the Solaris 10 releases.
  • Solaris 10 10/09 Documentation — All of the Solaris documentation released to support the Solaris 10 10/09 release.
  • Solaris 10 10/09 Install Information — Provides information about installing your Solaris 10 system.
• OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
  • The OpenSolaris release is available for download.
  • The release includes many new features including SPARC system support!
• Solaris Release Naming Matrix
  This document maps the various upgrade levels to release levels for the Solaris OS.

• SEM-SA-327-S10—Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting with DTrace
• WST-3250-S10—Solaris 8 Trusted to Solaris 10 Trusted Extension Differences

For a complete list of the Solaris training classes available, see the Course Catalog.

• Managing Solaris Containers Using Sun Ops Center 2.0
  This article shows to manage Solaris Containers to create many private execution environments within a single instance of the Solaris 10 OS.
• ZFS Snapshots How-to Guide
  This guide shows how ZFS snapshots can be used to backup, restore or migrate files.
• Patching Solaris Using Sun Ops Center
  This article describes how to patch the Solaris Operating System using Sun Ops Center 1.1.
• NFS Fundamentals for the Solaris OS
  This community submitted Tech Tip explains how to use Sun's Network File System (NFS), that allows you to view, store, and update files on a remote system as though the files were on a local file system.
• OpenSolaris System Administration Guide
  The current working version of this document is available on wikis.sun.com.
• Installing the Solaris 10 OS from a Flash Archive
  This community submitted article explains how to use the new installation function called flash installation for the Solaris 9 or 10 OS. With flash installation, you can create a single reference installation of the Solaris OS on a master system and replicate that installation as a new installation on any number of cloned systems.
• Building a Secure FTP Server
  This tech tip explains how to create a secure ftp server. The ftp daemon is run as a non-root user and only pre-defined users are allowed to login.
• Setting Up MySQL Cluster Software Using Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology
  This article describes how to set up MySQL Clustore software in a Solaris Zones environment. This setup is useful for replicating an environment withoug having to use multiple physical systems.
• Installing Branded Zones in Solaris 10 OS From a Flash Archive
  This community-submitted article describes how to create a Solaris 10 brand for installing Solaris 10 zones from a flash archive.
• Solaris Recommended and Sun Alert Patch Clusters: Descriptions and Differences
  This article describes Solaris Recommended and Sun Alert Patch clusters, and the differences between the two types of patch clusters.
• Benefits of Using the Solaris 10 OS With Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.x
  This document describes the benefits of using the Solaris 10 OS with Sun Java System Directory Server EE. The full document is provided as a PDF download.

• For information about installing your Solaris 10 system, see Solaris 10 10/09 Install.
• Information on OpenSolaris 2009.06.
• Information on Previous Releases.

• Solaris 10 10/09 (U8) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 5/09 (U7) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 10/08 (U6) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 5/08 (U5) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 8/07 (U4) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 11/06 (U3) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 6/06 (U2) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 1/06 (U1) End-of-Software Support Statements
• Solaris 10 End-of-Software Support Statements

Solaris 10 Books
• Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials
• Solaris Application Programming
• Solaris Internals
• Solaris Performance and Tools
• Solaris Security Essentials

OpenSolaris Books
• Pro OpenSolaris
• OpenSolaris Bible

Other Book Resources
• BigAdmin BookShelf Category

• White Paper: The Solaris OS and Intel Nehalem-EX (pdf)
  Find out about using Solaris with the next-generation Intel Xeon processor for the expandable server segment (codename Nehalem-EX).
• Using OCSP With Apache mod_nss and Solaris 9 OS
  This article explains how to use the mod_nss module withApache to support the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).
• Mirroring Root With Solaris Volume Manger in the Solaris 9 and 10 OS
  This community-submitted wiki page provides instructions for how to mirror the root file system using the Solaris Volume Manager.
• Solaris 10 Upgrade Resources for System Administrators
  This site includes pointers to information about upgrading to the Solaris 10 release from earlier releases.
• SAMP (Solaris, Apache 2, MySQL 5, and PHP 5) Setup for Solaris 10 OSand Solaris Express
  This article has been recently updated.
• Sun xVM Hypervisor Overview
  This article discusses the Sun xVM hypervisor software on the x86 family of processor architectures, and virtual machine instances known as domains. The hypervisor is a virtualization system for running multiple operating system instances simultaneously on a single x86 compatible machine.
• OpenSolaris Project Brussels: A Uniform Interface for Driver AdministrationThrough the dladm Command
  This article discusses the Driver Configuration Framework included in the OpenSolaris release.
• Using Solaris Containers to Host Solaris 8 and 9 Environments on the Solaris 10 OS
  This article discusses using Solaris Containers technology to upgrade your system to the Solaris 10 release from an earlier Solaris release.