The Solaris OS can be upgraded while the system is still running, which significantly reduces planned downtime . In the event of an upgrade failure, you can quickly fall back to the original boot environment with a simple reboot.
Significantly reduces installation time, configuration complexity, administrative resources, and improves deployment scalability. Customers can now rapidly provision thousands of complete systems over the LAN or WAN.
Minimizes the chance that any user will go beyond their realm of expertise and inadvertently -- or intentionally -- make a change that results in a system failure.
UFS Concurrent Direct I/O
Improves database performance by approximately 25% over direct I/O alone. Combines the performance of "raw disk" access with the administrative convenience of file systems for database usage.
