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? => <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = => "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> => => => 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.... Thanks _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu May 12 11:55:59 2005
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