Summary: Upgrade Solaris 8 to 9 or 10 -additional info

From: Catlin, Brian <bcatlin_at_uslec.com>
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 11:54:30 EDT
additionally - Solaris 10 only supports SUNPCI 3 and better for those that use
SUNPCI in workstations.
BC

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
=> [mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Raval, Nikul
=> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:47 AM
=> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
=> Subject: Summary: Upgrade Solaris 8 to 9 or 10
=>
=>
=> Many thanks to Tim C., Ian M., Darren D., John D., Rich T. for their
=> excellent responses.  I've tried to summarize in the best
=> way I can and
=> combined links from people to check out.
=>
=>
=>
=> >Is it possible to upgrade from Solaris 8 to 10 or do I go
=> to 9 first?
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=>
=>
=> It is possible to upgrade from solaris 8 to 10, no problem.
=> Solaris 10 has
=> enhancements that may yield better performance than solaris9
=> on the same
=> hardware.
=>
=>
=>
=> >In what ways solaris 10 better than 9?
=>
=> Solaris10 does some things "slightly differently" than
=>
=> Solaris9 and earlier, so if you make this jump you may have
=> to learn some
=> new things (gasp). I.e., /etc/inetd.conf is no longer in use
=> (for example) ;
=> the way run levels are controlled along with services at startup is
=> different, (much faster startup time :-) ; etc.
=>
=>
=>
=> Solaris 10 is many times better than Solaris 9 with the obvious new
=> technologies such as DTrace and Fault Management
=> Architecture (FMA). Solaris
=> has an ABI (Application Binary Interoperability) guarantee.
=> Basically if an
=> application has been written correctly and functions on
=> Solaris 2.6, it
=> should run on Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10. Solaris 9 (and
=> possibly 8) come with a
=> test suite called "appcert" which you can use to verify application
=> 'portability' before upgrading.
=>
=>
=>
=> Use Liveupgrade to go from 8 to 10 since it provides ABE
=> (Alternate Boot
=> Environment) to running install and one can reboot back to previous
=> environment if there is an issue with application.
=>
=>
=>
=> Features of Solaris 10:
=>
=>
=>
=>      + zones
=>
=>      + DTrace
=>
=>      + smf and predictive self healing
=>
=>      + ZFS (still to come)
=>
=>      + FireEngine (new TCP/IP stack)
=>
=>      + NFSv4
=>
=>
=>
=> Other than ZFS which isn't general availability yet I have
=> seenbenefit from
=> each and every one of the above
=>
=>
=>
=> Disadvantages:
=>
=> Does not support A1000. Solaris 10 on SPARC platforms does
=> not support 32
=> bit mode.
=>
=> Solaris 10 is only supported on Sun4U systems, all of which
=> support 64bit
=> operation, so 32 bit support was dropped.
=>
=>
=>
=>
=>
=> Links to check out:
=>
=> What's new in Solaris 10...
=>
=>  <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547>
=> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547
=>
=>
=>
=> When is Solaris 8 End Of Line...
=>
=>  <http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/releases.xml>
=> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/releases.xml
=>
=>  <http://www.sun.com/service/support/eosl/>
=> http://www.sun.com/service/support/eosl/
=>
=>  <http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9/fcc/lifecycle.xml>
=> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9/fcc/lifecycle.xml
=>
=>
=>
=> What Platforms 32 bit mode...
=>
=>
=> <http://iforce.sun.com/protected/solaris10/adoptionkit/x86/te
chinfo.html>
http://iforce.sun.com/protected/solaris10/adoptionkit/x86/techinfo.html



-----Original Message-----
From: Raval, Nikul
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:39 PM
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Upgrade Solaris 8 to 9 or 10


Is it possible to upgrade from Solaris 8 to 10 or do I go to 9 first?
In what ways solaris 10 better than 9?  How long Solaris 8 supported by SUN?
Both 9 and 10 can run in 32 bit??

Please share your thoughts, opinions....

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