This benchmark study (dated April'03) compares
the performance of UNIX File System (UFS) and Solaris Volume
Manager (SVM) against VERITAS Foundation Suite 3.5 (VERITAS File
System, VxFS on VERITAS Volume Manager VxVM)
The Solaris 9 9/02 Operating System release
introduces new Network Resource Management technology, superceding
the Solaris Bandwidth Manager product available for previous
Solaris releases. This technology is usually referred to as IP
quality of service (QoS), or simply IPQoS.
Success depends on building a flexible
infrastructure. Sun continues to focus on providing solutions to
complex problems, and delivers more value by integrating all
critical features -- availability, manageability, security, and
network and Web services -- into every system.
By offering the Solaris Operating System for both UltraSPARC and
x86-based systems as well as Linux for x86-based systems, Sun gives
companies the freedom of choice to make the trade-offs necessary to
best meet their business needs.
For organizations running Solaris Resource
Manager 1.x, moving from the Solaris 8, 7, or 2.6 platform to the
Solaris 9 OS requires migrating existing settings to Solaris 9
Resource Manager. This guide provides an overview of the
architectural differences between the products, as well as the
steps required to make the move.
The Sun ONE platform and the Solaris Operating
System provide the foundation for building Web services today. This
white paper discusses what it takes to implement Sun ONE Web
services, how the Solaris Operating System provides an underlying
platform that is scalable, available, manageable, and secure, and
finally describes the best-of-breed components and improved Java
technology support that are now integrated as part of the operating
environment.
The Solaris Operating System delivers on the
fundamentals because it is better by design, enabling it to more
effectively support the high-level infrastructure that
organizations need to provide services on the Internet. Because it
is available, scalable, manageable, and secure, the core Solaris
Operating System provides optimal support for the wide range of
services necessary to support both enterprise and Internet-based
Services on Demand environments.
When company executives begin to think of
doing business in other regions, the global-ready Solaris Operating
System offers a single, global solution, with support for 39
languages and 162 geographic locales in a unified package.
Sun's accessibility strategy is based on the
conviction that the entire system architecture should be built
around an open and flexible set of interfaces that can facilitate
the deployment of accessible applications throughout the software
stack. With built-in accessibility features, the Solaris Operating
System will broaden its support to even more users, including those
with disabilities.
This white paper provides an introduction to
the key features of the Solaris 9 Resource Manager software, a
discussion of how the Solaris 9 Resource Manager software can be
used to implement different levels of resource management, and
guidelines for migrating from the Solaris Resource Manager 1.x
software to the Solaris 9 Resource Manager software.
After nearly a decade of experience with
large-scale distributed computing, businesses understand how to
build scalability and availability into their IT
infrastructure.
Sun is continually developing applications and
tools to help IT managers and administrators meet the goals of
lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while simplifying the
processes involved. Sun provides multiple tools in the Solaris
Operating System - including Solaris Web Start software, Solaris
JumpStart software, Secure WAN Boot, Solaris Live Upgrade and
Solaris Flash - to help administrators install and maintain
systems.
Solaris Volume Manager, a component of the
Solaris 9 Operating System, greatly simplifies storage
administration and allows many operations to occur online,
minimizing the need for costly downtime. This white paper is
targeted at system managers and administrators who have experience
with VERITAS Volume Manager and are considering Solaris Volume
Manager software as a replacement or companion storage management
solution.
A component of the Solaris Operating System,
Solaris Volume Manager helps provide high data availability and
reliability, enhanced system and I/O performance, and simple large
system and disk administration.
Companies would like to consolidate their
installation and deployment operations to one central location,
booting and installing software on servers deployed in lights-out
facilities around the world. Secure WAN Boot, the first of its type
to be provided by a major UNIX vendor, provides a method to
securely boot and install systems over the Internet.
This paper is intended to be a resource to
system administrators who want to migrate from a NIS+ naming
service environment to the LDAP directory service which is
available in the Solaris 9 Operating System. The paper offers a
brief overview of both the NIS+ naming service and LDAP directory
services, as well as how to transition from NIS+ to LDAP.
This paper offers a technical overview of how
the Solaris 9 implementation of PAM works, and demonstrates the
straight forward way in which it can be configured to accommodate
site specific security policy requirement.
Keeping systems data secure - including
corporate and partner information - is of strategic importance in
this age of connected business. Internet Protocol Security (IPSec),
which provides highly configurable protection at the IP layer, can
be a major advantage in protecting a business.
As more network users require greater access
to remote systems, the risk of compromised accounts and systems
increases. Without proper safeguards, data can be intercepted while
traveling between the client and server. Solaris Secure Shell
provides commands for remote login and file transfer and can also
be used as an on-demand virtual private network (VPN) to help
safeguard against attacks.
The Solaris 9 Operating System contains
innovations for multithreaded applications - chiefly, the adoption
of a highly tuned and tested "1:1" thread model in preference to
the historic "MxN" implementation.
In the latest release of the Solaris 9
Operating System, Sun has significantly improved the functionality
of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) software, making it
one of the best in the industry.
The Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator
(NCA) improves the performance of most popular web servers and
makes it easier to efficiently manage resources and provide a
higher level of service. It also reduces the number of systems
required to do a particular task and thus allows better utilization
of existing resources, resulting in lower cost of ownership.
The purpose of this document is to present an
overview of the SunPlex system, detailing the features that enable
the creation of vertically and horizontally scalable clusters for
both off-the-shelf and custom applications. It also illustrates how
SunPlex systems meet the needs of every industry, and how they can
be used to deliver different forms of application services.
This paper describes the architecture of the
GNOME 2.0 platform and highlights many of the programming APIs that
can be used to create powerful, network-aware applications.
This paper describes the GNOME accessibility
framework and highlights the APIs and tools for developers to
create accessible applications and assistive technologies for use
by people with disabilities such as low vision, blindness, or
impaired motor skills.
Migrating to the Solaris OS can help you
harness the power of the top-rated, mature technology that drives
the Net Economy. With its history of rock-solid reliability, the
Solaris OS gives you the confidence that your systems will grow as
your business grows, your long-running and resource-intensive
applications can execute without interruption, and your data
centers running mission-critical applications will not go
down.
Sun has adopted GNOME as the future desktop
for the Solaris Operating System. GNOME and the Solaris platform
are an ideal match: both have been carefully designed to support a
computing philosophy that embraces today's pervasive global
network; and both support major industry standards required for
interoperability and the seamless exchange of data across
heterogeneous systems.
Platforms like the Solaris Operating System
offer stable programming interfaces, full support for
multiprocessing and multithreading, application compatibility
across product lines, Java technology integration and support,
effective use of processor capabilities, and easy integration of
emerging technologies - all the tools necessary to extract the
performance and scalability needed by growing desktop, workgroup,
and departmental computing environments.
With enhanced Sun Enterprise server hardware
and the Solaris 8 Operating System, Sun offers a host of features,
procedures, and technologies that directly target the needs of
leading-edge users and represent priorities for developers.
With the Solaris 8 platform, Sun maintains its
lead over the first version of Microsoft's Windows 2000, which
still falls short of key Solaris software functions related to
reliability, scalability, and manageability.
At a time where virtually all other UNIX
vendors have adopted strategic roles for Windows NT, Sun
relentlessly maintains its focus on UNIX, extending its role as a
leading UNIX visionary.
This paper presents an overview of the
possibilities that Solaris business services enables, and describes
the products and services that are currently in place to help ISPs
and ESPs take their first steps toward running their business more
efficiently, and at lower cost.
Solaris business services extend the proven
reliability and scalability of a Solaris Information Technology
(IT) environment into today's enterprise by integrating
next-generation Internet standards and capabilities.
This white paper covers an industry initiative
to produce a common specification for support of files that are
bigger than the current limit of 2GB on existing 32-bit systems.
Aid to Solaris programmers wishing to convert their applications to
take advantage of 64-bit file offsets or work properly in a large
file environment is included.
Sun Microsystems delivers the premier security
offering -- hardware, software, and services -- from a single
provider. Through superior product integration, sun security
solutions offer optimal performance and functionality. Plus, key
partnerships enable tailored solutions that can meet a wide variety
of needs.
Role-based access control (RBAC) is an
alternative to the all-or-nothing superuser model. RBAC is in
keeping with the security principle of least privilege, which
states that no user should be given more privilege than necessary
for performing that person's job.
SunScreen Secure Net 3.1 software enables
companies to protect the privacy and integrity of their data and
information, while making the information available to those who
need it.
The Trusted Solaris 8 Operating System -- an
extension of the Solaris 8 Operating System -- is designed for
deployments where enhanced security and policy enforcement is of
key importance.
As companies become more dependent on the
Internet for both their internal and external business
relationships, the importance of security increases as well.
Offering a significant performance improvement
over the first-generation Sun Crypto Accelerator 1 board, the Sun
Crypto Accelerator 1000 board is a dedicated hardware co-processor
solution that off-loads SSL functions from a server's CPU, thereby
freeing the CPU to perform other tasks and increasing processing
speeds for secure transactions.
This document is for executives and others who
want to know more about protecting their internal networks from
unauthorized use. Today, most businesses are connected to the
Internet, and have taken appropriate actions to protect themselves
from attack by hackers outside the network, using firewall products
and technology. Yet this addresses only a portion of the vast
majority of problems that affect your information technology(IT)
infrastructure.
This article will briefly introduce some of
the latest technologies that will help in rapid Solaris Operating
System (OS) installation or software upgrades in high availability
environments.
The Java HotSpot virtual machine (VM) is a key
component in maximizing deployment of enterprise applications. It
is a core component of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
software, supported by leading application vendors and
technologies. The Java HotSpot VM supports virtually all aspects of
development, deployment, and management of corporate
applications.
This document provides a high-level overview
of J2SE v1.3 software, including technical descriptions of its
features, and the benefits of upgrading to J2SE v1.3 software on
the Solaris platform from previous versions of Java
technology.
This white paper outlines the Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and how it can make system management
simpler and less expensive by moving the management of the IP 1
addresses away from the client systems and onto centralized
servers.
Over the next few years, the Internet will
face an important transition that will enable it to grow beyond its
current limitations. This transition will include moving to a
newer, more reliable version of the Internet protocol (IP) -- IPv6.
The changes are to the IP portion of the TCP/IP protocol
suite.
What does IPv6 mean for your business? First
of all, it means there's no limit to the number of people you can
reach -- and who can reach you -- through the Net. But that's
really just the beginning.
Interested in adding support for languages
such as Chinese to your applications? Find out more about Asian
multibyte language support in the Solaris Operating System.
Interested in adding support for languages
such as Arabic and Thai to your applications? Find out more about
complex text layout language support in Solaris platforms.
This white paper outlines the technical
implementation of support for the euro within the Solaris Operating
System, and provides guidance to developers tasked with the
transition of application or information systems to support the
euro currency standard.
This document provides step-by-step
instructions on installing multiple locales and languages onto a
system running the Solaris 2.6 Operating System. Having multiple
locales installed within a single system will allow you to view and
edit documents created using different codesets.
