Oracle Solaris Reviews & Product Details

Good support from Oracle. We get round the clock support from Oracle and team is very technically advanced.

Best knowledge articles are available on Oracle site and also in the online websites and so it becomes easy to implement.

Good handling of patches and updates. online patching solution is available from Oracle and its outstanding.

pricing is very good compared to other OS options available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Had performance issues hosting Databases on Solaris. So had to move out to other OS options

Cannot host MS Active DB. This I think Oracle should take into consideration to address it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good Security and performance, great support from Oracle Tech Team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance issue with hosting databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ldom, a freedom to choice when what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snapshot not available from the OS level Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The better options to handle shared memory without being relegated to use HugePages, we like the ability to take a quick snapshots -before migrations. Use of project files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User security profiles such as Access Control Lists could be a bit more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and the available tools for performance tuning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a limited pool of talent that has expertise in Solaris and finding good support personnel is sometimes challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using LDoms and Solaris Zones you can virtualize very easy.

The powerful ZFS filesystems is easy to use.

Failback back after upgrade is provided by BootEnvironments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle wastet time with OpenStack, which is now removed since Solaris 11.4 (August 2018). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Solaris Operating System is a very powerful OS. We have used it since a very early version of Solaris 7. With each higher and newer OS, it is always 100 backward compatible. The latest OS now is Solaris 11. It runs great, and the security, recommended, and cluster patches come out quarterly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It seems like Oracle is getting out of developing Oracle Solaris OS. 2031 is probably the last year they maintain it, and with 2034 would be the last year for support. It would be interesting to see if it becomes a free community OS support or some vendor would pick it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how simple Oracle Solaris is. It is built to hold files and scripts and does not have extra unnecessary features that could slow down the server or the processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Solaris does seem a little outdated compared to other technologies out there. However, the product does exactly what it's supposed to in terms of Server usage and capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It finally now has a decent gui with Solaris 11. Many many different repositories to choose from for opensource packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not enough help on google for issues, as it is a licensed product. Oracle support is not helpful without warranty. If your company can not pay for support, then do no get solaris. Many many better solaris products out there. Solaris is by far the worst unix os. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

solaris is more stable and comparable platform to linx Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

solaris is paid product and we will need to look out for oracle to release patch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I Have Consolidated Big Environments Into Just A Few Hosts. Valuable Features: Undoubtedly, Solaris is a very stable, extremely fast, and secure operating system. Backwards Compatibility And Stability Are The Most Valuable Features.Valuable Features: Backwards compatibility and stability are the most valuable features. It provides excellent security, and cool deduplication, compression, encryption and recovery capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Room for Improvement: The product is really good in and of itself. It does need more third-party support and applications. What needs to be improved is the documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This runs the redhat Kernel - therefore its widely compatible with anything that runs on redhat - they do their own interpretation of the kernel, or you can just straight up use the redhat one as far as I can tell.

The integration between the OS and the Oracle Database management software is as you would expect being as though it is from the same company.

A number of our large telecoms customers operate with this as their day to day administration software platform and are really pleased with it.

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If you submit a bug to Oracle, Oracle must then submit a bug report to redhat, redhat will then fix the bug, publish the fix, Oracle then takes the fix, runs it's own tests (and I'm sure edits it a bit to fit in with it's surrounding software) before fixing the the bug for the customer. If you were running and paying for the redhat service this gets simplified to: submit bug, bug fix, patch to os, so you generally find that fixing core things in Oracle OS takes a bit longer.

In my experience actually finding the image for download was a pain, having to actual sin up to Oracle's cloud in order to get the free iso. I guess the keyword is "free", but giving my company details away doesn't feel free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In a nutshell, ZFS is often the reason that we select Solaris to deploy in the enterprise, even in heterogeneous environments where numerous Linux and BSD machinery is running, the advantages of making storage facilities available that incorporates the snapshotting features of Oracle Solaris is compelling, even in a landscape where Btrfs is increasingly common under Linux.

In conjunction with the marriage of Oracle hardware that never needs to be downed for the replacement of memory, CPUs, etc., Solaris offers metrics of uptime in the data center that exceeds most other Unices by virtue of being able to continue operating even during bare metal upgrades and maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With respect to the native file system ZFS, yes, it is available for Linux, but due to Oracle's licensing restrictions, the way most enterprises choose to deploy it is in user space using FUSE, since it can't by default be *distributed* with out of the box support in Linux.

That, and the fact that Btrfs is now considered stable and production ready (as evidenced by SuSE's adoption of it as the default FS which began with SLES), the deployment of snapshot on write filesystems is still primarily dominated by Linux in the enterprise.

One also has to bear in mind that even going back to earlier versions of SunOS, Solaris is a bit of a different creature so there is a learning curve to performing the same systems administration functions in Solaris (i.e., "ps -e") as opposed to the way most Linux admins are used to with Bash. This necessitates addtional thought and preparation of cross-compatibility when deploying shell scripts within environments that incorporate a mixture of BSD, Linux, and Solaris operating systems on their machinery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like about this product is the ease of usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far I don't have anything that I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Portal is nice to look at, fairly organized with little clutter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

System is not overly user friendly. It takes a lot of time to really learn how to navigate within Oracle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use for all users. We find it exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not applicable. We love the product for our use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Streamlined OS as Oracle now also doing the hardware as well. Very good scalability and support various workstation, including x86, x86-64 and Sparc based. Continuous support and developement from Oracle and also Oracle's still investing in hardware - Sparc based work station for even better performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI looks outdated compare to windows. Almost all actions on UNIX based OS require commands instead of visual elements so it's quite hard for new users to get into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used oracle solaris especially for oracle db , both for production and test environment. and I was amazed for its hardware utilization capabilities. It has also many inbuilt features for databases and application servers. like IPS, which make installation/ updates/maintain very easy. ZFS (z file system )for taking snapshots/roolback, add/remove storage and like many more great features . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there are so many inbuilt packages which makes installation size bigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

First of all it struck me that it is free available for non-commercial use and this was a big like from me.

Text install is very similar with old Solaris install, it even have the same color scheme and "F2_Continue" shortcuts. The boot menu (grub) lets you choose between install over a local terminal or serial ports, I was pleased to see that compared to the horrors of past Solaris releases, a NMAP run against a newly installed system that shows minimal ports open, just SSH and port mapper.

There are also massive changes to how configuration is now handled in Solaris.

The desktop looks quite sharp and slick and i don't find it annoying at all.

One of the noticeable improvements in Solaris is the package manager. The ZFS Time Slider has also made its way into Solaris, another first-in-OpenSolaris feature. Time slider does automatic ZFS snapshots and allows easily rolling back files to later dates.

IP and data-link configuration is the obvious area in which the old methods were rapidly becoming clunky and difficult to manage; dladm and ipadm provide a much more consistent and powerful toolset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You will have to invest several days in searching relating documentation and read it. The loss of individual configuration files and the traditional "unix-way" of doing things. Also let's not forget the licensing changes and the fact that Oracle have pretty much managed to kill off the community around OpenSolaris I don't see it winning many converts from established Linux shops. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many features to Oracle, and I find the program's easy to navigate. I used Oracle with two separate clients, and each time we were able to customize it for each client, even though they were completely different fields (retail, education.) While the bones of the program were the same, the functions were able to be specialized for each. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I sometimes find that it's glitchy or crashes when I've been using it for too long and there's a build up of cache. I did, on more than a few occasions, have to uninstall the product and reinstall if there was too many issues with it that couldn't be remedied by just starting and restarting the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used Solaris to deploy our database system and for most part we never had issues with the OS or performance of the database. Solaris also had good security and regular patches and supported virtualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is expensive when you run on non Oracle based systems so we used other flavors on our regular hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.