Sun Microsystems released the Solaris 9 4/03 Operating System for the SPARC and x86 platforms. The third update to the Solaris 9 Operating System, Solaris 9 4/03 offers enhanced data storage scalability, allowing Solaris sites to use larger storage systems than ever before via the Solaris Volume Manager. Read more for additional features.Major new additions in Solaris 9 4/03 include:
– New advances in data storage scalability, enabling Solaris sites to use larger storage systems than ever before via the Solaris Volume Manager.
– The newly released Sun Management Center 3.5 is a significant improvement in Sun’s system management software, enabling sysadmins to effectively manage larger numbers of machines.
– Netscape 7.0 adds numerous new web-browsing and email features for Solaris users, bringing the very best internet access tools to the Solaris desktop.
– Finally, additional language support makes Solaris an even better global platform for service delivery, both as a server and as a desktop system.
Hopefully SMC better than earlier version which leaks memory about 10MB/mouse click. And the speeeeed is incredible.
That’s an improved version of Solstice DiskSuite, and it has been in Solaris since a long time. Specifically under the name Solaris Volume Manager, it has been in Solaris 9 from the very beginning. While it’s a sophisticated, powerful and well designed VM, I don’t see what’s the actual news here.
Updating will allow users to have up to two petabytes, or two million Gbytes, of storage in a single volume, as opposed to the one terabyte limit on storage imposed by the Solaris Volume Manager in the older versions of Solaris, said Bill Moffitt, group manager for Solaris product management at Sun.
here is a better story …
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=1213…
SMC speed fits in perfectly with the rest of Solaris’ performace paradigm.