The Solaris Operating system of Sun Microsystems is based on the industry-standard UNIX system. Solaris is a multitasking, multiprocessing operating system and distributed computing environment for Sun's SPARC, Intel x86 and AMD Opteron servers. Solaris is known for its robustness and scalability. It provides an enterprise-wide UNIX environment that has the following capabilities:
- One million simultaneous processes on a single system
- Up to 128 CPUs in a single system and 848 CPUs in a clustered environment
- Support for up to 576 GB of memory
- More than four billion network connections
- Up to 252 TB file systems with Sun StorEdge Performance Suite software
- IPv6, enabling a 128-bit IP address space
- A 64-bit Java virtual machine.
The key features of the Solaris OS 9 are as follows:
- Integration of the Sun Java System Directory Server and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based Sun Java System Application Server in the Solaris 9 Operating System provides the foundation for Network Identity Management.
- Delivers the performance and stability to meet production database and file system requirements.
- Solaris Containers, combined with Dynamic System Domains, enhance utilization of system resources.
- Provides security solutions and a fully integrated suite of security services.
- Champions the RAS lifestyle into every step of the software development process.
- Configuration services and Patch Manager, combined with SunPlex systems.
- Applications run faster without recompiling and recoding.
- Compatibility with previous versions, and built-in Linux compatibility, offer investment protection.
- The Solaris OS has been optimized for x86-based platforms, including Xeon and Opteron servers.
Related Terms: UNIX, SPARC, Intel x86, AMD Opteron, CPU, Server, Operating Systems
Reference Links: http://www.sun.com/solaris/: Sun Solaris official Site