New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU57 (May 2023)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

Kernel Zone live storage migration support for individual disk operations
Kernel Zone Virtual CPU binding improvements
Kernel Zone MRP reservation for Nested Page Tables
Comments for reboot(8), halt(8), and poweroff(8)
pbind(8) default output change for querying multi-LWP processes
Courteous NFS Server
Force flag for shrinking ZFS volumes
ZFS send with raw crypto


FOSS: PHP 8.2, MySQL 8.0
EOF:  CVS, MySQL 5.7
Removed: Python 2.7, PHP 7.4, Ruby 2.6, OpenSSL 1.1.1

Oracle Cloud Systems TechDay 23.05.2023 in Prague

Learn about: SPARC, Solaris, ZFS Appliance, Cloud@Customers, PCA, and more
at this in-person (only) event.

Details and Registration:
https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x827280abcd

It looks like MySQL 8.0 is coming soon in Solaris 11.4

 https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/mysql-8

Oracle Solaris 10 Extended Support now till Jan 2025

Oracle has once again changed the Extended Support for Solaris 10
from January 2024 now to January 2025.

You can find all the Support dates in

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU54 (February 2023)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

16 byte EUI-64 LUN GUID identifier for Kernel Zones
snapdestroy ZFS permission
--scale option in dlstat/flowstat/ipstat/tcpstat/quota

FOSS: Python 3.11, GCC 12.2.0

I/O experiences with Solaris X86 on OCI

Ultra High Performance(UHP) block volumes can't be attached to Solaris
at the moment using ISCSI. This type of volume can only be attached
paravirtualized to a VM.
The volume should be able to handle 1200MB/s.
The maximum I could reach on a large VM was 750MB/s.

Best solution seems to use Balanced with Auto-tune.
I/O limits are based on the volume size, for example
for a 50GB volume the limit is at 30MB/s

Highest for a 1TB volume is around 600MB/s on bare metal.
On a large VM I could reach the same 600MB/s. Looks like
the virtualization layer has no impact on the performance.

On smaller VMs the performance is limited
by the network speed and the number of CPUs.
With 2 cores the maximum I reached was around 250MB/s