Oracle Cloud Systems TechDay 2024 in Prague

Tuesday, June 11th

Cloud, Security, Automation, Systems

Register here:
https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x874552abcd
 

See you there!

OpenJDK 17 is available for Solaris 11.4 SPARC

Great work by Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/

Download page
https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-solaris/

Solaris 11.4 SRU60 - fc port tabular output

The default output of fcinfo hba-port contains a lot of values,
but is not optimal if you are looking for a specific attribute

# fcinfo hba-port 2100000e1ef99410
HBA Port WWN: 2100000e1ef99410
        Port Mode: Initiator
        Port ID: 10200
        OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c5
        Manufacturer: Marvell Technology, Inc
        Model: 7023303
        Firmware Version: 8.08.04
        FCode/BIOS Version:  BIOS: 3.19; fcode: 4.02; EFI: 5.36;
        Serial Number: 463916R+1729340085
        Driver Name: qlc
        Driver Version: 230206-5.12
        Type: N-port
        State: online
        Supported Speeds: 4Gb 8Gb 16Gb
        Current Speed: 8Gb
        Node WWN: 2000000e1ef99410
        Max NPIV Ports: 253
        NPIV port list:

Solaris 11.4 SRU60 (August 2023) introduces the new -T, -O and -o flags

default tabular format

# fcinfo hba-port -T 2100000e1ef99410
PORT_WWN         PARENT_WWN       MODE      CTRL    STATE   SPEED
2100000e1ef99410 NA               Initiator c5      online  8Gb

Output for admins

# fcinfo hba-port -o port_wwn,driver_name,link_failure_count,state,speed 2100000e1ef99410
PORT_WWN         DRIVER_NAME         LINK_FAILURE_COUNT STATE   SPEED
2100000e1ef99410 qlc                 1                  online  8Gb

Output for scripts

# fcinfo hba-port -O port_wwn,driver_name,link_failure_count,state,speed 2100000e1ef99410
2100000e1ef99410:qlc:1:online:8Gb

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU66 (Feb 2024)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

dns/client: usevc/use-vc options
ptree -z zone -g
fractional seconds in log messages (messages, syslog)

FOSS: Apache Tomcat 9
EOF: PHP 8.0, GCC 10
Removed: ipf2pf, MySQL 5.7

 

Find details on the Oracle Solaris SRU66 blog 

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-114-sru-66

Oracle offers Extended Support for Solaris 11.4 now till at least 2037

In 2023 Oracle has changed the Extended Support for Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.3
from January 2025 to January 2027.

Now Oracle adds another 3 years to Solaris 11.4 to November 2037.
This is a long term commitment I'm not aware of any other OS vendor.
New features are delivered every quarter using SRUs.

You can find all the Support dates in

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

zfs help properties

Solaris zfs has many properties. to see the possible values you can use zfs help -l properties.

-bash-5.2$ zfs help -l properties | wc -l
167

The "DELEG" column was added in Solaris 11.4 SRU63 (November 2023)

-bash-5.2$ zfs help -l properties
PROPERTY                            EDIT  INHERIT  DELEG  VALUES
aclinherit                           YES      YES    YES  discard | noallow | restricted | passthrough | passthrough-x | passthrough-mode-preserve
aclmode                              YES      YES    YES  discard | mask | passthrough
atime                                YES      YES    YES  on | off
available                             NO       NO     NO  <size>
canmount                             YES       NO    YES  on | off | noauto
casesensitivity                       NO      YES    YES  sensitive | insensitive | mixed
checksum                             YES      YES    YES  on | off | fletcher2 | fletcher4 | sha256
compression                          YES      YES    YES  on | off | lzjb | gzip | gzip-[1-9] | zle | lz4
[...]

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU63 (Nov 2023)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

LDAP setup for Active Directory domain
ldap commands: -h / -p have been deprecated
Strict Mode for Live Memory Reconfig for Kernel Zones
ZFS File Retention Autodelete and Hold
prstat -s usr/sys (sort key)
sysadm maintain noreboot


FOSS: GCC 13
EOF: GCC 10
Removed: SMF svc:/system/auto-update:ehc