Apa yang baru di Oracle Solaris 11.2

Oracle Solaris 11 yang dibangun sebagai OS Cloud yang pertama, pada akhir bulan ini akan melakukan launching untuk release 2 nya.

Apakah yang membedakan Solaris 11.1 dan Solaris 11.2??

Review sementara yang bisa diinformasikan adalah Solaris 11.2 ini akan meningkatkan performance dari sisi virtualisasi OS dengan zero latency and small foot step for installation. Yang pada akhirnya akan mampu memberikan dampak yang sangat baik untuk engineered system.

Launching tersebut akan diadakan di New York, tanggal 29 April 2014. Host untuk acara tersebut adalah Mark Hurd, John Fowler, dan Markus Flierl.

Update untuk Oracle Solaris 11.2 saat ini adalah Solaris tidak melihat hanya sebuah OS, namun ini adalah platform untuk Cloud diantaranya adalah Operating System + Virtualisasi Operating System + Software Define Network + Storage Virtualization + Cloud Management Tools, Configuration, Compliance Reporting, dll.

Ini penjelasan versi bahasa Inggrisnya:

"1. kernel zones: With kernel zones customers will have to option to run different kernel patch levels across different zones while maintaining the simplicity of zones management. We'll also be able to do live migration of kernel zones. All of that across HW platforms, i.e. kernel zones will be available on both SPARC as well as x86. Key benefits of kernel zones: 
x Low overhead (Lots of optimizations because we run Solaris on Solaris)
x Unique security features: Ability to make them immutable by locking down the root file system
x Integration with the Solaris resource management capabilities: CPU, memory, I/O, networking
x Fully compatible with OVM SPARC as well as native and S10 branded zones
x Comprehensive SDN capabilities: Distributed Virtual Switch and VxLAN capabilities 

2. Unified Template Builder: This will allow customers to go from any-to-any of the following: Bare metal, OVM, kernel zone, native zone. For instance: You'll be able to take a zones image and re-deploy it as a bare metal image, kernel zone or ldom. Or vice versa! Pretty powerful, huh? Unified templates also provide us with a great foundation to distribute key Oracle applications as a shrink-wrapped, pre-installed, pre-tuned an configured image where customers can specify at install time whether to turn them into a bare metal image, a zone, a kernel zone or an OVM. 

3. OpenStack and Puppet: We are planning on integrating both of these into Solaris. This will allow customers to seamlessly integrate a Solaris/kernel zones or zones or OVM environment with other OpenStack platforms. 

I concluded by highlighting some of the differentiating features we are now available in Oracle DB 12c when running on Solaris 11.1: 
x Zero-downtime DB re-sizing 
x Full-stack analytics: Running on Solaris allows DBAs to quickly identify I/O outliers. For more details check out: 
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/ent...solaris_dtrace x RAC lock off-load into Solaris kernel: This reduces latency by about 30-40%. 

Not to mention the 100s of other features and improvements that I won't even mention here. 

Solaris is on a mission to kick butt! More to come..."