Summary Highest grade security Award – winning OS reliability Guaranteed compatibility Largest enterprise application offering Throughput Computing leadership Flexibility with #1 Unix OS and Linux Innovation , safety , agility , and value

1. Presentation on Operating Systems
Welcome
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2. world's most advanced enterprise
operating system
Solaris OS
Group members
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3. Operating System
• Just a program
• Provides a stable ,
consistent way for
applications to deal with
the hardware
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OS
Multi - tasking
Memory
Management
Security
User interface
Peripheral
Management

4. • SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system
• Developed by Sun Microsystems
• Marketed under the brand name Solaris.
What is Solaris OS
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5. • Free and open/close source software
• Integrated and tested with the Oracle software stack
• Proven mission-critical capabilities:
– Performance
– reliability
– security
• Investment protection for your mission-critical applications
Overview
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6. • Developed by SUN Microsystem
• 1980s – introduced RISC(Reduced Instruction Set Computer) chip
called SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) by SUN
• 1983 - first SUN OS released
• Solaris is one implementation of the UNIX operating system
• Marketed under the brand name Solaris
History
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7. Special features of
Solaris Operating
Environment
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8. PORTABLE
SCALABLE
INTER OPERABLE
COMPATIBLE
Solaris operating Environment
• Multiple vendor platforms
• ABI –Application Binary
Interface
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9. PORTABLE
SCALABLE
INTER OPERABLE
COMPATIBLE
Solaris operating Environment
• More powerful systems
• Growing environment
• Runs on
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Solaris operating Environment

10. PORTABLE
SCALABLE
INTER OPERABLE
COMPATIBLE
Solaris operating Environment
• Heterogeneous computing
environments
• Standardization and clear
interfaces
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Solaris operating Environment

11. PORTABLE
SCALABLE
INTER OPERABLE
COMPATIBLE
Solaris operating Environment
• Advance rapidly
• Minimize cost
• Maximize investment
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Solaris operating Environment

12. • High performance client – server applications
• support virtually any application and configuration
• Solaris[tm] 8 - industry's first dot-com grade operating environment.
• TCP/IP, the central Internet protocol has been at the core of Solaris
networking
• Multiprocessing & Multithreading
• Runs on SPARC and X86 platforms
• Based on a single, merged source code base
• Customers can choose a lower-cost platform
More features ….
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13. Advantages and
Disadvantages of
Solaris
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14. Advantages
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Heavy multi-tasking work.
It is built for computer networking.
Reboot is not required.
Support Zfs file system.
Good backup tools
Fully Virus protected.

15. Disadvantages
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Not user friendly.
You can run for free but you can’t get updates for free.
Not availability Tablet/phones.

16. Comparison with
other OS
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17. • Developer -
Community
• Support ext2 /ext3 file
system
• Open source
• Platform – SPARC,IA-
32,x86-64
• Developer - Microsoft
• Support NTFS & FAT-
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• Licensed software
• Platform - ARM,IA-
32,Itanium, x86-64
• Developer – SUN
Microsystem
• Support zfs/NFS file
system
• Open Source
• Platform – SPARC,IA-
32,x86-64
Solaris Linux Windows
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18. System
Requirements
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19. • Minimum of 512MB RAM, 1.5GB RAM or Higher is Recommend.
• 32 or 64 bit system based on AMD Intel and VIA x86 CPUs.
• Sun Ultra SPARC based processors. (Sun4v architecture)
• NOTE : Memory requirements will vary depending on the application
software being used.
System Requirements
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20. • Secure Live Migration.
• Security with Immutable Zones.
• Eliminate downtime with Live Reconfiguration of Zones.
• Enhanced mobility with Zones on Shared Storage.
• Virtual Clocks for Solaris Zones.
Technology
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• 3 Types of File Systems
– Disk based - ZFS
– Network based - NFS
– Virtual - TMPFS
File Systems

22. • 1982 – 2004 - Traditional operating system license
• 2005 -2010 March - Open source / close source
• 2011 and later - Post-Oracle closed source (Solaris 10
after March 2010, and Solaris 11
Licenses
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23. Versions of
Solaris
Currently
using
2002
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24. • 1982 Feb. - SunOS 1.0 based on BSD
• 1985 May - SunOS 2.0
• 1986 Feb. - SunOS 3.0
• 1989 - SunOS 4.0
• 1990 Nov. - Solaris 1.0 (SunOS 4.1.1)
• 1991 July - Solaris 2.0 (SunOS 5.0 based on
System V Rel. 4)
• 1993 May - Solaris 2.2 (SunOS 5.2)
first time with multithreading
• 1994 Dec. - Solaris 2.4 (SunOS 5.4)
first time for x86 platform)
• 1998 March - Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6)
Versions of Solaris
• 1998 Oct. - Solaris 7(SunOS 5.7)
• 2000 Jan. - Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)
• 2000 Nov. - Trusted Solaris 8
• 2002 May - Solaris 9 SPARC
• 2003 Feb. - Solaris 9 x86
• 2003 Aug. - Solaris 9 8/03
• 2004 Nov. - Solaris 10
• 2005 March - Solaris 10 3/05
• 2006 Dec. - Solaris 10 11/06
• 2007 Sept.. - Solaris 10 8/07
• 2008 April - Solaris 10 5/08
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25. 32.1
5.5
10.4
0.1
Windows
Linux
MAC
Solaris
Usage
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26. Summary
• Highest grade security
• Award – winning OS reliability
• Guaranteed compatibility
• Largest enterprise application offering
• Throughput Computing leadership
• Flexibility with #1 Unix OS and Linux
Innovation , safety , agility , and value
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27. Conclusion
• Most powerful and versatile Unix operating Environment
• Provides
– multithreaded , multiprocessing- capable kernel
– Open systems – based standards for connectivity and inter operability
– Distributed – computing services
– World class administration & software development tools
– Large number of third – party applications
– Microsoft windows application support
• Gateway to the future of networked enterprise computing
• Only Solaris supplies the full range of services needed to meet the needs of
– Internet
– Intranet and
– Enterprise computing
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28. Thank
you
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