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 For decades, Oracle Solaris has been a cornerstone of enterprise computing—powering mission-critical workloads across finance, telecom, government, and healthcare. Known for its unmatched scalability, security, and uptime, Solaris became synonymous with stability on SPARC hardware and even x86 platforms in earlier years. But in a world rapidly shifting toward cloud-native , containerized , and Linux-first architectures , where does Solaris stand today—and what does the future hold? A Brief Look Back Originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s, Solaris was a pioneer in: Zones (containers) before Docker was born ZFS for next-generation file systems DTrace for real-time observability RBAC and SMF for role-based security and service management After Sun's acquisition by Oracle in 2010, Solaris development slowed, and its open-source cousin OpenSolaris was discontinued. Oracle positioned Solaris as a long-term, stable platform—but innovation pace dec...

This article demonstrates steps for enabling a windows host shared folder to oracle solaris 11 guest operating system in a virtualbox environment. Before reading further please make sure that "guest additions" are already Installed and configured on a guest OS. 1) Create and configure shared folder for a virtual machine: Create any directory which you want to share at your desired location. I've used "E:\solshare"  >> Navigate to devices > shared folders  >> click on icon to add a new shared folder to guest OS >>  click on "Folder Path" and add the required folder for enabling sharing. >> check box - If you want to make this shared as permanent and auto-mount enabled. It will be persistent on reboots.  >> Verify the configuration of shared folder 2) Mount share folder on guest OS (solaris11): >> Verify the existing mount-points root@soltest1:~# df -h...

 Oracle Solaris 11 is one of the well known operating system and due to its powerful compute capacities, there are many customers who are still using it. This blogpost will help you for performing Oracle EBS 12.2 Installation OS pre-requisites in simple two steps. As a part of preparation just we need to install the two pakcages and the OS will be ready for Kickking off the Oracle E-Business suite application. 1 - solaris-desktop 2 - oracle-ebs-server-R12-preinstall These packages will be installed using the Oracle Solairs repository, so there should be a valid package repository available that is needed for installing the packages. Installation of solaris-desktop package: root@ijr-svp-ebsdb1:~# pkg install solaris-desktop Packages to install: 337 Mediators to change: 1 Services to change: 17 Create boot environment: No Create backup boot environment: No DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB) ...

 FRM-92101 is a very generic Error and its reported on one of our Oracle E-Business suite customer who recently upgraded the Operating system from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11. We checked RDA and other OS pre-requisites there were no issues reported.  But after checking the logfiles we found some of the library files are missing. Cause: The required library files were missing and these files were present in the OS package "motif" Solution: Install the required "Motif toolkit " package on the Application Server. Search Package availability in repository: root@erpappst8:~# pkg search motif INDEX&nbsp  PACKAGE com.oracle.info.description set    Motif toolkit                                     pkg:/library/motif@2.1-11.4.21.0.1.69.0 pkg.description   pkg:/library/motif@2.1-11.4.21.0.1.69.0 pkg.description             set ...

Oracle will release periodic updates for Oracle Solaris Operating System packages as Support Repository Updates (SRU). The latest available SRU is " Oracle Solaris 11.2.3.4.1 Support Repository Update " Each SRU contains updates for multiple packages. If you want to update a specific package then you need to use locking mechanism on packages. This method will be helpful if customers are not willing to update full SRU Immediately. They can update individual packages according to their requirements and at later stage they can update the complete SRU. In this demonstration we will update bash shell independently of SRU cycle. Steps: - Check Existing version of bash root@soltest1:~# pkg list bash pkg list bash NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO shell/bash 4.1.11-0.175.2.0.0.42.1 i-- - Check for available updates root@soltest1:~# pkg list -af shell/bash pkg list -af shell...

Oracle Solaris 11.2 introduced new package in IPS  "oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall". Users need to check all packages exists on the system before starting the Installation. This preinstall package was first introduced in Oracle Enterprise Linux and now available in Oracle Solaris 11.2. In Oracle Solaris 11.2  its very easy for administrators to install this package and they are not required to check dependencies/version of each and every package. For Installing "oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall"  package your solaris IPS repository should be configured. IPS can be configured via Internet or can be configured on your local file system. For more information on configuring IPS locally please refer my earlier blogpost: Configure IPS on Oracle Solaris11.2 Locally Check for IPS repository publisher root@solaris11-2:~# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION solaris origin online F file:///IPS/ roo...

Its been some time now Oracle released new version of Solaris "Oracle Solaris 11.2".  There are litlle changes in the configuration of repository on Solaris 11.2 compare to Solaris 11.1. In this article i will demonstrate configuration of  Local IPS repository on Oracle Solaris 11.2 Steps: 1) Download files required for building a repository: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/local-repository-2245081.html - Download all files 2)  Create ISO image for all downloaded files.  - We can use "winscp" or virtualbox "share folder" option as well to move these files to the server. 3) Copy files into a single directory  from the media: - All files has been copied in /sw_home/sol11_2_images directory 4)  Execute script "install-repo.ksh" for building repository This "install-repo.ksh" script is introduced in solaris 11.2 whereas in solaris 11.1 we need to manually conca...

This is a very detailed post for configuring Oracle 12c RAC  on Solaris 11.1 X86-64bit Operating system. It consists of more than 100 screen shots. There are many bloggers who demonstrated  all new 12c RAC installation  on Linux and windows. This demonstration is on oracle solaris 11.1 (X86-64Bit) This configuration is deployed on 2 Oracle Solaris 11.1  virtual machines hosting on vmware server 2.0 and I have used windows 2003 as DNS Server for resolving scan-name. Listed below software's are used for building 12 RAC: 1) VMware Server 2.0 Installed on windows 7 2) Oracle Solaris 11.1 text Installer 3) Oracle Solaris package repository Images 4) Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure for Solairs-X86-64bit 5) Oracle 12c Database for Solairs-X86-64bit I will perform this Installation in four parts: Part1:-    Creation  of virtual machines Part2:-    Installation of Oracle Solaris 11.1 operating including GI pre-reuisites...