Solaris operating system
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Solaris operating system is a Unix-based enterprise operating system known for its scalability, robustness, and advanced features such as ZFS, DTrace, and strong support for SPARC and x86 architectures.
Observed surface forms (10)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Solaris | 30 |
| Oracle Solaris | 5 |
| OpenSolaris | 3 |
| SunOS | 3 |
| Illumos | 2 |
| SmartOS | 1 |
| Solaris (some versions) | 1 |
| Solaris kernel | 1 |
| Solaris userland | 1 |
| Sun Solaris operating system | 1 |
Statements (96)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unix operating system
ⓘ
enterprise operating system ⓘ operating system ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Unix
ⓘ
surface form:
UNIX
|
| derivedFrom |
BSD
ⓘ
surface form:
BSD Unix
UNIX System V ⓘ |
| developer |
Oracle Corporation
ⓘ
Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| family |
UNIX System V
ⓘ
surface form:
System V Release 4
|
| feature |
DTrace
ⓘ
DTrace dynamic tracing ⓘ DTrace probes ⓘ FMA automatic recovery ⓘ FMA error detection ⓘ FMA fault isolation ⓘ Fault Management Architecture ⓘ IPsec ⓘ NFS ⓘ Predictive Self Healing ⓘ RBAC ⓘ SMB server ⓘ SMF service dependency management ⓘ SMF service restart ⓘ Service Management Facility ⓘ Solaris Containers ⓘ ZFS file system ⓘ
surface form:
ZFS
ZFS checksumming ⓘ ZFS clones ⓘ ZFS file system ⓘ
surface form:
ZFS compression
ZFS deduplication ⓘ ZFS snapshots ⓘ Zones ⓘ Zones resource isolation ⓘ Zones virtualization ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
DTrace
ⓘ
surface form:
DTrace framework
Fault Management Architecture ⓘ Service Management Facility ⓘ Solaris operating system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Solaris kernel
Solaris network stack ⓘ Solaris operating system self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Solaris userland
ZFS file system ⓘ Zones subsystem ⓘ command-line tools ⓘ desktop environment ⓘ installer ⓘ package management system ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic kernel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advanced observability
ⓘ
high availability ⓘ robustness ⓘ scalability ⓘ strong SPARC support ⓘ strong x86 support ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| previouslyLicensedAs | Sun Microsystems open source CDDL components ⓘ |
| supports |
64-bit computing
ⓘ
C programming language ⓘ C++ programming language ⓘ SMB ⓘ
surface form:
CIFS
Fibre Channel ⓘ IPv4 ⓘ IPv6 ⓘ InfiniBand ⓘ Java ⓘ
surface form:
Java platform
Kerberos authentication ⓘ LDAP authentication ⓘ NIS ⓘ NIS+ ⓘ NUMA architectures ⓘ PCI-X ⓘ
surface form:
PCI
POSIX APIs ⓘ POSIX ⓘ
surface form:
POSIX threads
Serial ATA ⓘ
surface form:
SATA
SCSI ⓘ auditing ⓘ cryptographic framework ⓘ dynamic reconfiguration ⓘ iSCSI ⓘ large memory systems ⓘ live upgrade ⓘ logical volume management via ZFS ⓘ multithreading ⓘ networking protocols ⓘ resource management ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ symmetric multiprocessing ⓘ virtualization ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
AMD64 architecture
ⓘ
surface form:
AMD64
Intel 64 ⓘ SPARC microprocessor architecture ⓘ
surface form:
SPARC
x86 ⓘ x86-64 ⓘ |
| targetUser |
data centers
ⓘ
enterprise customers ⓘ mission-critical environments ⓘ telecommunications providers ⓘ |