22 August 2023

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU60 (Aug 2023)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

iostat -S (separator)
coreadm -d asr to disable ASR SR
svccfg setnotify problem-diagnosed asr:inactive to disable ASR SR
no /etc/vfstab entry required anymore for swap
fcinfo hba-port -T (tabular format)
pkgadd: -d http & https removed

FOSS: OpenSSH_9.3p1
EOF: pcre
Removed: CVS, perl 5.32

 

26 July 2023

Overview of Solaris ZFS blog posts

I wanted to write a blog post about ZFS encryption and found
there was already a post in 2020.

It looks like it's time for an overview about such posts

Solaris 11.4 SRU42 (Feb 2022) - zpool status -s
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2022/02/solaris-114-sru42-feb-2022-zpool-status.html

Don't remove Data Disks from Solaris Zpools if performance is important
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2021/08/dont-remove-data-disks-from-solaris.html

Performance Impact of ZFS Encryption on Oracle Solaris
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2020/06/performance-impact-of-zfs-encryption-on.html

Oracle Database on Solaris ZFS done right
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2020/05/oracle-database-on-solaris-zfs-done.html

Solaris 11.4 Beta: Fast (asynchronous) ZFS destroy
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2018/02/solaris-114-beta-fast-asynchronous-zfs.html

Is there a performance impact when using Solaris ZFS lz4 compression?
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2017/04/is-there-performance-impact-when-using.html


02 June 2023

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

20 March 2023

15 February 2023

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